Aurora Monsters of the Movies

[tay666]

I just finished up a few of this line and thought some here might enjoy seeing them.
First up is Frankenstein. This was my 2nd go around with this guy. I did one many years ago and then sold it off a few years later.
Now I am actively working on collecting and building the whole line of the figures (not interested in doing Ghidorah or Rodan)

[tay666]

Next up is Dr Jekyll.
Never had any of these kits when I was a kid, only had the Monster Scenes, never even saw the MOTM kits until this century.
So this is my first go round with any of these.

[tay666]

Finally I have Mr Hyde.
Kind of fitting since he goes hand-in-hand with Dr Jekyll

[tay666]

Not really a MOTM, but there was a 3rd head, kind of mid-transformation head that originally came in the Monster Scenes Dr Jekyll / Mr Hyde kit that these two came from.
I used it on another Mr Hyde body (it came in the Mr Hyde kit) and put it on a Graveyard Scenes base. Graveyard Scenes is a line of resin bases and sometimes figures that were produced to be adjacent to the Monster Scenes models and give you somewhere to put your MS kits.

[Werewolf]

Wow, really nice painting. Those are great kits.

[TrekStar]

The only ones I had as a kid were King Kong and Godzilla, but they were never painted. I would like to try and get them again and this time around try my hand at painting them.

[J.B.]

It was either 4th or 5th grade that I built/painted Godzilla. At the time I didn't care for Kong, but he's now become my favorite. You did a great job on your kits, tay666.

[KnightDetective]

I especially like the subtle texturing on Frankie's face! Thanks for posting your work!

I received multiples of Aurora Godzilla at Christmas time one year and happily built 'em all with my Dad. Now that I'm skilled enough to do a borderline decent job of it, modern-day sticker shock keeps me just looking at cool pics like yours. Shame everything has become "collectible" and therefore premium priced. Please post if you do some more!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Those look great! I have always thought these were kind of inferior and a bit more primitive sculpt-wise to the original Aurora kits, which I have built repros of several times over the years. But your paint work really brought these to life, and makes me want to give them a go!

[PNGwynne]

Excellent! I really enjoyed seeing these, thanks for sharing.

Somewhere I saw a Phantom of the Opera conversion for the MOTM Dracula.

It occurs to me that a neat custom triptych could also be made of the Jekyll/Hyde figures.

[tay666]

Thanks for the kind words.
I had lots of fun painting these and hope to get to the other two I have for the line sometime in the next few months (Dracula and Creature) Maybe by then I will actually track down a Wolfman to round out the set.
I also have a couple more versions of Kogar to build as well (Moebius add him to the line several years ago)

I did do part of a Creature from the Black Lagoon last year on another Graveyard Scenes base.

[TrekStar]

That came out great, you have quite the talent.

[tay666]

Thanks.
I don't know if I would call it talent,. My brush control has gotten a lot better since the wife got me a magnifying light xmas before last.
It's amazing how much easier it is to paint things when you can actually see what you are doing :D

[apes3978]

These really are sharp. Good job on them.