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GREG MAIOCCO'S OTHER MONSTERS Damien [from The Omen (1976)],from Kit Kongs Model Mansion, 1/6 scale (resin). This kit is based on the character Damien Thorn from the The Omen, one of my favorite Halloween movies (back when horror movies would scare you). The original concept came from James Whitman and the kit was sculpted by Chris Elizardo. This kit met the manufacturer’s excellent standards in casting, with very little prep work necessary for the Damien figure, base and granite cross. A great deal of prep work went into the mastiff; each leg had to be pinned and glued, with seams that took a lot of work. A Dremel wire brush wheel on slow speed helped blend the fur along the epoxied and puttied seams. Painting this kit was fun. I broke out the Opti-Visor for the Damien figure & the mastiff (my 55 year old eyes aren't as good as they used to be) and am pleased overall with how it turned out. The only addition was a wood craft base.
The Grim Reaper, 1998 Skull Island release, 1/10 scale (resin). I bought the Grim Reaper at a yard sale and it came in a plastic bag with no directions. This kit was also built with no modifications, just basic painting and drybrushing.
August 14, 2008: J.C. Williams from Monsters on the Shelf has found some information on my Grim Reaper kit. [see above] He found a photo from a 1998 Sassy's Satellite catalog of the piece. It was sculpted by Steve Goodrich. REAPER UPDATE: Greg recently swapped out the kit base for a base from the Body Snatcher kit. He says, "The lichen was taken from my model railroad supplies and used to hide the footprints where the Karloff figure was supposed to stand. Other than that, it was a pretty straightforward glue and paint. The Reaper figure looks a lot better on this base than on the plain oval that came with the kit."
This was my first resin kit, where I learned about pinning the arms and hands to the torso and the figure and gravestone to the base. Model railroad scenery materials (lichen and ground foams) were used to detail the base.
Harvest Terror, manufactured by Kit Kongs Model Mansion, 1/6 scale (resin).
Sculpted by Nick Williams, this
model was built with no modifications, just the usual pinning, seam work and dry
brushing on the resin figure with washes added to the porcelain base. I
used a wood craft base along with fall foliage to represent a late fall corn
field, with a black foam board background painted with stars and a full moon.
I'm Back, manufactured by Sideshow, Inc., 1/6 scale (vinyl). Basic painting and dry brushing was used on this kit. The wood base and a homemade name plate (that I am in the process of making) are the only modifications to the kit.
The Roswell Alien, manufactured by Lindberg, 1/5 scale (styrene).
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The Forgotten
Prisoner of Castel-Mare, 2001 Polar Lights reissue of
Aurora kit, 1/8 scale (styrene). This was one of my earlier
kits and was built without any modifications. Basic painting and dry brushing
was used on this kit.
The Grim Rocker,
manufactured by Posthumous Productions, 1/8 scale (resin). 
The Headless Horseman
from Sleepy Hollow (1999), manufactured by Polar
Lights, 1/8 scale (styrene). A great deal of time was spent on
removing seams, puttying gaps and painting; dry brushing was used a great deal
on this kit. The hollow pumpkins are lighted with small bulbs bought at Radio
Shack, taking two AAA batteries [for power].
The Mummy [from The
Mummy (1999)],manufactured by Polar
Lights, 1/8 scale (styrene). Kit built with no modifications and is
the kit that got me back into building monster figures. This was the first
figure kit that I concentrated on the basics: gluing, puttying, sanding seams
and painting, which was a mostly dry brushing.