GREMLINS Part 1 Stop Motion Puppet and Part 2 Hand Puppet

[TomSpinaDesigns]

We've updated our site today with a pair of new Gremlins projects.

First up was a small stop-motion gremlin puppet from the first film. Condition was fairly rough and flaky and the client wanted us to preserve, rather than restore this piece. With her input, we did make some slight improvements to his hand, ear and eyes to help make the piece display just a little better. He's now in much better physical shape, with his paint and foam strengthened and he displays quite nicely, while retaining a true "artifact of production" look.

The second is a bit more drastic - a restoration of a brown hand puppet from Gremlins 2, the New Batch. As with many of these puppets, his neck had badly torn from years of storage hanging on a post. We created a custom body insert to properly support him over time and restored the damage. This one's got a GREAT face... a big evil grin and huge, floppy ears. The ears had a good bit of damage on the reverse side and Mike Thomas, lead artist on this restore, did a great job of bringing those back to life.

I hope you enjoy the pics... If you want to see more Gremlins restorations, please visit our site: Gremlins Movie Prop Puppet Restorations and Displays

Folks who follow our Facebook page have seen sneak peeks at this (and other projects) so please visit there and click "like" if you want to see more like this! Tom Spina Designs | Facebook

Thanks for reading!
best regards,
Tom


Part 1 Gremlin Stop Motion Puppet Preservation:



Part 2 Gremlin hand puppet restoration BEFORE (and during) our work:




Part 2 Gremlin hand puppet restoration AFTER our work:

 

[PHArchivist]

Excellent work. One of the better character designs of the past 30 or so years, and great to see this art being preserved.

 

[Apollo]

Outstanding job as always! :thumbsup

 

[Darran]

Great work, especially the first one.

 

[DeanPJedi]

Wow amazing as always !!!

 

[lichboy]

beautiful work