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Hello all,
I am trying to slowly but surely take nice pics of my customs. I am not a particularly good photographer. I have only had a camera for about a year and I have been customizing for about 15 years, so there is a considerable backlog. I don't get many visitors to the MAGE monster factory, so this often the only way I can share these things.
Up for your viewing pleasure today is my 8" Oliver Reed Werewolf. My primary goal when i started customizing all those years ago was to produce very nice Hammer Monsters, as those remain my favorite films in the horror genre.
(I am very proud of the sweat on the forehead in this picture)
"Curse of the Werewolf" is not a great film. It is plodding at times, hammy, and overwrought. But, is is a very good one, at least. Among Hammer's best. And if it doesn't quite reach the greatness of "Horror of Dracula" or "Brides of Dracula," well, few horror films can.
It does have one of the greatest looking monsters of all time, though. Oliver Reed, certainly today anyway, is an under-appreciated actor. A lot of stars would have gotten lost in this make-up. Not Reed. The humanity shows through.
This figure was my 6th and final attempt to render this monster in Mego scale. As my skills improved, I kept going back to him. Redoing him from the ground up. (No, I won't show you my early version. He is lost to posterity, thank you very much). Once i had reached this stage with the character, I stopped. Time to move on. The head was sculpted by me in 12" scale and then shrunk down. The body is a modified Mego and Playing mantis body. The clothes were sewn by me, and the box done in photoshop.
Taking a cue from the garage kit hobby, I fashioned him a custom Bell-Tower diorama to re-enact the climax of the movie. It is modified from a McFarlane Notre Dame playset with a cut-away, and some scrap styrene and old spools of thread as pedestals. Some gel medium was used to give a stucco and mortar look to the wall. I can also place my Quasimodo custom in this set. It is not film-accurate to the set in "COW", but it serves my purpose.
Anyway, hope you like the pics, and thank so much for looking!
Matt Jaycox
I am trying to slowly but surely take nice pics of my customs. I am not a particularly good photographer. I have only had a camera for about a year and I have been customizing for about 15 years, so there is a considerable backlog. I don't get many visitors to the MAGE monster factory, so this often the only way I can share these things.
Up for your viewing pleasure today is my 8" Oliver Reed Werewolf. My primary goal when i started customizing all those years ago was to produce very nice Hammer Monsters, as those remain my favorite films in the horror genre.
(I am very proud of the sweat on the forehead in this picture)
"Curse of the Werewolf" is not a great film. It is plodding at times, hammy, and overwrought. But, is is a very good one, at least. Among Hammer's best. And if it doesn't quite reach the greatness of "Horror of Dracula" or "Brides of Dracula," well, few horror films can.
It does have one of the greatest looking monsters of all time, though. Oliver Reed, certainly today anyway, is an under-appreciated actor. A lot of stars would have gotten lost in this make-up. Not Reed. The humanity shows through.
This figure was my 6th and final attempt to render this monster in Mego scale. As my skills improved, I kept going back to him. Redoing him from the ground up. (No, I won't show you my early version. He is lost to posterity, thank you very much). Once i had reached this stage with the character, I stopped. Time to move on. The head was sculpted by me in 12" scale and then shrunk down. The body is a modified Mego and Playing mantis body. The clothes were sewn by me, and the box done in photoshop.
Taking a cue from the garage kit hobby, I fashioned him a custom Bell-Tower diorama to re-enact the climax of the movie. It is modified from a McFarlane Notre Dame playset with a cut-away, and some scrap styrene and old spools of thread as pedestals. Some gel medium was used to give a stucco and mortar look to the wall. I can also place my Quasimodo custom in this set. It is not film-accurate to the set in "COW", but it serves my purpose.
Anyway, hope you like the pics, and thank so much for looking!
Matt Jaycox
-Tallahassee 
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