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Hello all,
A couple years ago, on Halloween night, I posted four of my favorite classic monster customs made by the MAGE company. I called it my Tetralogy of Terror.
Tonight I'm back with four more ghoulish guys to celebrate Halloween with. Three of them are old customs by me, but which have never received a hi-rez unveiling. So without further ado, here is the Tetralogy of Terror, part II.
1) Thomas Edison's Frankenstein: The first screen version of cinema's most famous monster was a silent short feature done in 1910, and produced by Thomas Edison's film studio. It starred Charles Ogle as the monster. It was believed to have been lost for many years, until a print was found in the mid 1980s.
The hair is rooted and secured onto the head behind the "head band" so that it "sprouts up"
Here is the source image:
The head was sculpted by me, and he is on a special torso of my design to give him that hunch. The hands are from a McFarlane Kiss figure. Suit was made by me.
2) Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows: This is the Dark Shadows figure I always dreamed of having when I started customizing so long ago. Don't get me wrong-- I loved the EMCE one. But this figure is what I always saw in my head. And he was so easy to make! (Recipe below)
The recipe: The MPC Barnabas and Werewolf kits were re-released within the last two years, with new resin replacement heads sculpted by, I believe, Tom Parker. It is perfect Mego scale. The inverness coat is from a Sideshow 8" Werewolf of London, dyed black. White shirt. Black pants. Black tie. Hands are from a Flattworld Bela. The wolf-cane came with the model kit. I used the glow-in-dark one, and painted the shaft black, but left the wolf-head unpainted so that it would still glow in the dark. It looks so sweet when I turn out the lights and just see his cane. He is on a Star Trek Type II body.
3) Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu (1979) I know some people think this film is slow and meditative, which it is, of course. But it remains one of my all-time favorites. And this is one of my favorite customs. The head was from a resin kit released by Staffan Linder over 12 years ago. I altered it slightly, then adapted it to fit a Mego, sewed the clothes and painted it.
This box is my favorite one I ever designed. I love how the framing motif from the poster forms the edges of the cello window.
The box side is deliberately meant to evoke the way the spines of videocassettes were decorated during the VHS boom of the late 80s.
The paint job on the head was done with several thin layers of pigment to give it a luminescence, which unfortunately does not come through in the photos. I am very fond of how it turned out. The hands are altered hands from a Sideshow 8" Wolf Man figure.
The kit upon which this is based is surely one of the best resin kits ever mounted.
4) The Evil of Frankenstein This Hammer flick was one of the first monsters I ever attempted. I was determined to have a set of Mego Hammers. If only Martin and DD had been available back then, lol! The head is sculpted by me, the clothes are sewed by me, and box as well was my design. The hands come from a Frankenstein Aurora kit, and the boots are Sideshows, altered to have buckles.
This figure was released in the same assortment as Edison's Frankenstein, and Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
Because of the shape of his head, I call him "Toaster Frankie"
Happy Halloween everybody!! And thanks for looking.
Matt
A couple years ago, on Halloween night, I posted four of my favorite classic monster customs made by the MAGE company. I called it my Tetralogy of Terror.
Tonight I'm back with four more ghoulish guys to celebrate Halloween with. Three of them are old customs by me, but which have never received a hi-rez unveiling. So without further ado, here is the Tetralogy of Terror, part II.
1) Thomas Edison's Frankenstein: The first screen version of cinema's most famous monster was a silent short feature done in 1910, and produced by Thomas Edison's film studio. It starred Charles Ogle as the monster. It was believed to have been lost for many years, until a print was found in the mid 1980s.
The hair is rooted and secured onto the head behind the "head band" so that it "sprouts up"
Here is the source image:
The head was sculpted by me, and he is on a special torso of my design to give him that hunch. The hands are from a McFarlane Kiss figure. Suit was made by me.
2) Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows: This is the Dark Shadows figure I always dreamed of having when I started customizing so long ago. Don't get me wrong-- I loved the EMCE one. But this figure is what I always saw in my head. And he was so easy to make! (Recipe below)
The recipe: The MPC Barnabas and Werewolf kits were re-released within the last two years, with new resin replacement heads sculpted by, I believe, Tom Parker. It is perfect Mego scale. The inverness coat is from a Sideshow 8" Werewolf of London, dyed black. White shirt. Black pants. Black tie. Hands are from a Flattworld Bela. The wolf-cane came with the model kit. I used the glow-in-dark one, and painted the shaft black, but left the wolf-head unpainted so that it would still glow in the dark. It looks so sweet when I turn out the lights and just see his cane. He is on a Star Trek Type II body.
3) Klaus Kinski as Nosferatu (1979) I know some people think this film is slow and meditative, which it is, of course. But it remains one of my all-time favorites. And this is one of my favorite customs. The head was from a resin kit released by Staffan Linder over 12 years ago. I altered it slightly, then adapted it to fit a Mego, sewed the clothes and painted it.
This box is my favorite one I ever designed. I love how the framing motif from the poster forms the edges of the cello window.
The box side is deliberately meant to evoke the way the spines of videocassettes were decorated during the VHS boom of the late 80s.
The paint job on the head was done with several thin layers of pigment to give it a luminescence, which unfortunately does not come through in the photos. I am very fond of how it turned out. The hands are altered hands from a Sideshow 8" Wolf Man figure.
The kit upon which this is based is surely one of the best resin kits ever mounted.
4) The Evil of Frankenstein This Hammer flick was one of the first monsters I ever attempted. I was determined to have a set of Mego Hammers. If only Martin and DD had been available back then, lol! The head is sculpted by me, the clothes are sewed by me, and box as well was my design. The hands come from a Frankenstein Aurora kit, and the boots are Sideshows, altered to have buckles.
This figure was released in the same assortment as Edison's Frankenstein, and Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
Because of the shape of his head, I call him "Toaster Frankie"
Happy Halloween everybody!! And thanks for looking.
Matt
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