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This is an old Resin From The Grave, Valley Of Gwangi resin kit I built on comission for a local comics shop. The casting on
this particular
kit was quite poor and there was a lot of extra work done to it. The casting of Gwangi himself was passable and was a pretty straight forward build and paint. However, it was a chore cleaning and restoring his teeth.
The real problem with the kit was the one cowboy that came with it. There was a strange texture to the casting of his upper torso, so I replaced his head and torso with action figure parts. The
horse was OK, but he needed extensive reworking with putty on the tail and mane.
As I worked on the kit I decided to expand it a bit. The base was attached to an 11 x 14 plaque and expanded out
with plaster
and real rocks. I added a second cowboy and horse to make the scene more interesting. The second cowboy was an assemblage from severaly different action figures, boots, head, hands and arms were all from different figures.
It took a while to find the right horse. I spend a lot of time searching through the horsey sections of toy stores, carrying the resin cowboy from the kit, trying to find a horse in the
right scale. I found one that had "real mane and tail" and little brushes to comb them. Anyway I tore the horse apart and repostioned the legs and head to makeit look like it was galloping away. I resculpted the mane and tail from Magic Sculp. The horse is attached to the base with a length of coat .
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