Manfred Knorr’s Kennel Dog Thing

I have built a kit of the Kennel dog Thing. I don’t think it is a great job but I though you might be interested. I hope the pictures are good enough.

I built the kit straight out of the box. The base was bent so I softened it in the oven and straightened it out. All the legs and tentacles fitted into holes in the body so required no filling. Just a little sanding to get the tentacles to fit into the base of the body. The kit came with 2 heads. One with a closed mouth and one with an open one. I painted the closed head first to get some idea of what colours to use and how it would look. The open moth head is in 3 pieces, head, tongue and lower jaw. All these bits fitted well with only a little filling and sanding. I painted the inside of the mouth before putting it together and then touched up the filling etc.

Trying to get the colours right proved very difficult for me. The base coat was standard flesh for the skin areas and pink for the ruptured areas. I mixed together various flesh colours with pinks and browns as a wash to bring out the detail and then dry brushed very light flesh and pink. I then went over things again with blood colour. All the paint was JO Sonja’s artist’s gouache. When I was as happy as I was ever going to get with the colour, I sprayed on about 10 coats of Johnson’s high gloss floor sealer. This gave it a nice wet look. I added some plastic optic fibre for saliva.

Manfred Knorr