First up is the recent Moebius Frankenstein with accessories (and a new head!) from KitKrafters, available at CultTVMan.com.

The accessories include the trunk, the lintel over the door, and an extra supporting wall for the lintel to the right of the door.
Additionally, I made a back wall out of styrofoam and plaster.
I painted it with lots of white drybrush in the lower left hand corner to make it look like there was light coming in from the room behind him.

 

Nice stuff!

 

Next up are my three biggies: Horizon's Bride of Frankenstein (with scratch-built table), Horizon's Frankenstein monster,
and Dimensional Design's "Crazy, Am I?" (Colin Clive) (all about 1/6 scale).
They share an elaborate shelf in my modeling room which you can check out here.
I fixed the paint job on Clive's face because someone made fun of it on the bulletin boards - they said he looked like he'd been out all night on the town!

 

 

 

 

Next, Geometric's excellent vinyl "Son of Frankenstein" (about 1/8th scale):

 

 

 

 

Old faithful from Aurora, 1964.
This is actually the Karloff monster from The Bride Of Frankenstein - his hair is burned off in the front and his clothes are singed.
Click here for a whole page of the Aurora Thirteen, complete with boxes.

 

 

 

 

 

OMG - IT'S BIG FRANKIE!
For those not in the know, Big Frankie (Gigantic Frankenstein) was a failed Aurora product from the sixties, which made it super valuable on the web forty years later.
At the time, the aurora models were $0.98 for the thin box models or $1.49 for the large box models. Big Frankie went for $4.98 - a couple of week's allowances!
No one I knew ever bought one, hence its later value online.
Moebius re-popped it, and I bought one, mainly for the cool box.
Then we had a party for Lowbudget Records. I use a red acoustic guitar, and this ENORMOUS bottle of wine was available at the local wine store, so I bought it!
It was crazy trying to get the cork out (but it was worth the effort).
Afterwards, I noticed it was the same height as Frankie (almost 20 inches), so I built him, painted him, and gave him the empty.
He always looked a bit tipsy to me, so it suits him well.

 

 

 

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