Horizon DC Comics "The Penguin" 1/8 vinyl kit

I recently went to the jerseyfest model fair and I was able to get a few good model kits. One of the ones that I purchased which was quite hard to find online is the Horizon "The Penguin" model kit. One thing I admit about this kit is that it comes with an awesome vinyl model base (I am thinking about making it a solid piece via molding and casting). One thing I really like about this kit is the face sculpt.

Here are some unclose pictures of the kit itself:

Did some work on this kit cut out the face and the nameplate

Planning on making him look like his animated series counter part or at least a mishmash of the two that were drawn for the cartoon

UPDATE TIME:
So I found some time to work on this kit since I have purchased it. I cut of all the flashing on this kit and Have kept for sketch and as a way to test painting techniques.

Next you'll see some unclose pictures of the flashing cut off

I plan on fixing the base that this kit came with I m planning on cutting a piece of wood and then putting it into the hollow of the base. ( I plan on making a mold of this base and treating it like a normal base for some of the model I paint.)

Also glued the head and hair together using insta glue and it's holding pretty well but as seen in the pictures there is a gap where the head meets the hairs what I plan on doing is filling that up with Aves Apoxie and once the head is all done I plan on filling the head with resin to help it keep it shape

And lastly I found one weird thing on this kit the fact the the back has a triangle of the coat being cut out but the way it is put together that hole (as seen in the picture is shown off). I plan on heating this part up and just tucking the coat inside the body of this kit. (also plans on filling the top body of this kit with SMOOTH ON expanding rigid foam, and filling the bottom of this kit with resin).

UPDATE TIME:
I was able to find time to work on this kit. Here are the final results of what I was able to accomplish:

also the umbrella that came with the kit

Also the head finally finished:

I don't have some in progress shots b/c with this one I was focusing and kind forgot to document the build on this one. Some explanation as to what I did with this kit as you can see in the pictures I posted on the first part. The head I puttied the seam between the head and the hair sanded it down a bit and drilled a small hole in so that the resin I purchased will be able to fill in the head. The resin I used is was Fabri-Cast 50 Casting Resin (1 Gallon) as well as CRC 03300 Silicone Mold Release Spray, (Net Fill Weight 12 oz) 16oz Aerosol can. I hit the head with the mold release so that any reason that fell out of the hole and on the face was easy remove. This was my first time doing any of this and I was very happy the end result on thing I will say that this has me excited branching into molding and casting. Then I did go on to filling the umbrella that came with this, I first filling the top half and then filled the the second half then drilled a hole on the umbrella in order to install a steel rod ay add stability. Then used insta glue and accelerator to increases the strength and time it was taking for the glue to cure.

One thing I did learn was which resin to use and how much time to work it the resin I was using has a working time of 2 minutes, and in order to fill in models or molds you need to be fast. I did some tests to see how to work this resin. Here are some pictures:

-The first att

As you can see I used a plastic cup and I didn't work the resin enough it came a little too clear it's still strong but not mixed enough as you can see in the had the way it dried. The chemical reaction was a little slow.

-The 2nd att

This was my second att and I mixed for a minute I of course had to be quick in filling the head of the Penguin vinyl head. and it seems a bit more strong and not translucent, complete solid.

-The 3rd att

The resin here was Zap's finishing resin it's the one I tried first but what stopped me from using this to fill this kit because it has a 20-30 min working time and there is a 6-8 hour curing time. I wanted it to dry as fast as possible. but one thing I did notice is that as it was curing I saw that it was eating the plastic of the cup and was immediately put off by this I didn't want this to eat the vinyl.
See you next time!

I love these kits. I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work on it!

Update time:
I was able find some time in the previous weeks to work on this kit and I go farther along than I though I would. I first purchased a scratch kit in order to try out some new ways of building a vinyl kit as well as filling the kit.

1) I purchased a Storm trooper "recast" vinyl kit in order to test some ways of how to strengthen the interior of the model as well as fill in the model. {See Pictures}:


2) I then applied the same technique I sued on the trooper it with filling in the arms and torso with foam and filling most of the legs with resin and living a little bit at the top to fill with foam so that it would be easier to peg this guy together.


On to Part 2

ON TO PRIMING:
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There still more that needs to be done on this after this step but it's big step up. Also worked on a base for this ket created master using the base that was included in this kit and using some plumbing supplies as way go heighten the base


SEE YOU NEXT TIME