POLAR LIGHTS BIG GODZILLA
Styrene, 1/5th scale for a guy in a rubber suit
Resin nameplate, producer unknown
I had built and painted yet another Aurora Godzilla in 2023 using more realistic colors, and I loved the results so much that I decided to re-paint this behemoth as well, using the same color scheme.
I also worked hard to minimze the seams, something I didn't pay much attention to ten years ago.
I painted the subway cars using the same colors as the MBTA buses here in Boston in the 1950s!
I looked ub "1950s Tokyo Subway Car" and some of them were painted these same colors, so I figured it was karma to use these same colors.
The radioactive fins are brushed with a dusting of baby blue, which contrasts nicely with the warm greens and browns of the rest of the body.
I spent a long time on the base. Although the items are all in wildly different scales, it was a lot of fun.
Here's my earlier build of the same model, possibly from 2013
WOW! Polar Lights hit the ball out of the park with this one!
It's HUGE, and befitting such a giant!
AURORA BOX ART GODZILLA
Sculpted by Jeff Yagher / Produced by Pestilence Labs
1/7th scale (for a guy in a rubber suit), resin
painted plexiglass background
This picture is not the old Aurora box - it's the actual model!
Here's the original Aurora box - it's a bit different from the 1990s Polar Lights re-issue, which is still pretty easy to find online:
Funny story: my mom bought me the Aurora model in 1964 when I was five years old as a distraction on the way to the dentist.
It didn't work - I had never seen the movie, but the box implied that dinosaurs could come by and rip my city to shreds!
I was twice as scared in the dentist's office than I would have been without the model...
The background is a piece of 10" X 15" plexiglass, primed and painted with acrylics.
I'm using a piece of wood in these photos to hold up the background;
when the kit is installed in the model museum, the wood will be gone and the background will be screwed to the wall behind the model.
Painting lightning is NOT as easy as it looks.
GRRR! I love the cartoony colors of this Gojira!
I freaked when I saw the prototype of the base. I wanted to paint it immediately!
This base was the fun part of the kit. I spent a week or two on it.
The orange flames are from a tube of Holbein Gouache "Luminous Orange".
It's more expensive than craft acrylics, but I don't get to use much of it, so it's going to last quite awhile. It's so bright, it looks radioactive.
Godzilla 2000
cold-cast resin, the figure is about 4 inches tall
Sculpted by Akira Ibaraki, K.O.C.
I love this kit, and I was dying to photograph it! It looks soooo cool!
The snout was actually missing from the figure that I received - I had to sculpt it with Alves modeling putty. The top row of teeth were OK, though - the palate was a separate peice from the head.
"Sure we can build a nuclear reactor on the shoreline! What could possibly go wrong?"
I love the beach (both in this model and in real life)!
I painted the fading sand as it disappears under the water, and then I glossed the waves. It really give the illusion of being deep, though it's only a millimeter thick.
Old faithful from Aurora, with that "hopping out of the shower" pose.
