This kit was the first " Human " figure kit I attempted and at first I thought I bit off more then I could chew, this being only the 4th kit ive built so far. BUT being that The SHINING by stanley kubrick is probably my favorite horror movie, meaning it really scares the hell out of me , I knew I had to build it.
I purchased the kit from Villiage Comics in N.Y.C. ( phone 212-777-2770 ). The kit comes in 4 resin pieces and is in 1/7th scale (aprox.), including the base, ( a giant ass hunk of resin ), and the nameplate. The kit was produced by " Needful things " but unfortunatly I cant find any info out about the company.
I started by cleaning up the kit, which was a pain in the butt because its cast in white resin and its hard to spot the flaws. Then I primed with floquil figure primer (grey). I airbrused the kit with liquatex and tamiya acryilics. The flannel shirt was easier to do then I thought. First I painted in wide bands of light blue and then cut them in half with the base blue. Then I painted in the white stripes. After a few touchups it came out pretty good. The axehead was first polished then airbrushed with model master buffable stainless steal and came out great.I recreated the stubble on jack by first airbrushing a light coat of a sort of greyish brown I mixed up, and then took a black colored pencil and drew in very fine lines and dots and when done sat back and staired at it for about 6 hours( It was really starting to look like my favorite villian !!!).
When jack was all done and mounted I didnt think the scene " Looked Right ", So I broke out the credit card and called Micro-mark, and ordered all kinds of railroad scenery material to biuld my own little " HedgeMaze ". I used a piece of foam core as my wall, then proceded to hotglue little peices of dark green polyfilla ( Same stuff thats inside your pillow, only green and WAY more expensive ) When that was done I sprayed scenic cement on it and shook dark green " Turf " all over it and let it dry. Then I reached into my old armor diorama bag of tricks and got some hudson & allen " snow ", and " slush ",and some techstar " snowflakes " and sprinkled that all over until it looked right, then sprayed on more cement and let dry. I used the same process on the sides of the resin base to help the wall blend in better. Then I glued on the nameplate and WHALLA!!!, Jack Torrance now haunts my den in all his insane, posessed, evil glory! VIVA LA JACK! By the way if youve never seen " The Shining " I highly recommend renting it on a dark stormy night, sit back, and be SCARED out of youre wits. ROB