MARK MCGOVERN'S

MISCELLANEOUS MODELS

"Crazy, Am I?" A Tribute to Colin Clive, 1997 Monsters in Motion, 1/6 scale (resin). This was a Christmas present from my wife, the first resin kit I'd ever built. I tend not to build too far out of the box, but I did add a lot of detail to the lab machine. There are anatomical drawings that I copied from Gray's Anatomy on the base. And a contact lens container became an ominously empty jar with a label that reads, "Disfunctio Cerebri" (which loosely translated from the Latin means, "rotten brain").

Brother Rat Fink...on a Bike! Original 1963 Revell issue, box scale (styrene). I found this one as a build up at a toy show and redid it. Years later, I re-redid it to illustrate an article on restoring assembled models for Modeler's Resource magazine.

The Mummy, manufactured by Horizon, 1/6 scale (vinyl). I was too cheap to purchase a ready-made resin base, so I made this one from Styrofoam covered with plaster of Paris. The upward slope of the floor allows one to view the figure without having to hunker down.

The Sixth Finger, 1989 Golden Era Models, 1/8 scale (vinyl). I don't really remember from where I purchased this model, except that it was by mail order. I started the kit, set it down for several years, then finished it as a platform for reviewing a set of Vallejo acrylic hobby paints for the IPMS Modelers Journal. The evolution machine was scratchbuilt.

The Thing (from Another World), recast of Billiken kit, 1/6 scale (resin). Don't get your hackles up - I bought this model at a toy show years after Billiken had gone out of business. Otherwise I would never touch a recast.