The Thirteenth Hour Podcast #356: Making Night of the Comet Minifigures!
https://archive.org/download/podcast-356/Podcast%20356.mp3
This week, I wanted to share a little bit of a recent project. After finishing the Lego Rocketeer and resin Beverly Switzler figurines, I thought it be fun to do figurines of Reggie and Sam from the 1984 cult classic, Night of the Comet.
If you haven’t seen the film, it’s great! You can actually watch it for free on YouTube, that is until YouTube flags it and takes it down. But until they do, it’s available here:
Ever since I first saw this film over 20 years ago, I’ve been trying to get people to watch it. It used to be only on VHS, but now you can also find it on DVD. If you can catch it, it’s a lot of fun.
Anyway, I used the model bases for the Lego friends minifigure line to create the main characters, which are more elongated and a bit more realistic looking that the traditional, squat Lego minifigure body.
Prior to painting Sam’s cheerleader outfit …
After painting … still working out how to do the lettering on Sam’s uniform (see below):
This scene, by the way, is available here:
The lettering on Samantha‘s cheerleader uniform is too small to realistically paint, but I think I should be able to edit some images on Photoshop that I can print out. The tricky part, as always, is getting the dimensions right, but I think it should be doable.
Like the Lego Rocketeer and Bev figures, I think I going to house them in a clamshell case and auction them off on eBay as charity auctions.
More updates shortly!
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If the past few months have got you needing a break, you may want to chill out to this 80s synth throwback track for a upcoming LP with the accompanying music video:
Empty Hands, the synth EP soundtrack to the novella, Empty Hands, is now out for streaming on Bandcamp.
Stay tuned. Follow along on Spotify! There is also a growing extended Thirteenth Hour playlist on Spotify with a growing number of retro 80s songs.
As always, thanks for listening!
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