Fossil Hand From Creature From The Black Lagoon!
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anniv111701
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Hey Madrobot,
I've had good luck aging a similar crate (to display my Grail); I did some random gouges with a large flat-head screwdriver, flattened out the corners/edges with a hammer, then beat the crap out of it on my gravel driveway to the great amusement of my mailman - basically scraping each side against the gravel, leaning into each side and twisting it into the gravel until it looked "well traveled". I then made a batch of strong instant coffee and applied it with a foam brush, saturating a side and then immediately wiping it off with a rag until I'd finished the crate inside & out. I repeated this on the outside so the inside would look aged but less so and "protected" from the hazards of temple raiding...
I similarly aged the raffia the grail's packed in (though I used a very large sponge and applied it to the raffia in a trash bag - it's effective but very messy) .
...And I've gotta heap some more praise onto you - that fossil hand is phenomenal!!! :eek
Take care,
Mike
I've had good luck aging a similar crate (to display my Grail); I did some random gouges with a large flat-head screwdriver, flattened out the corners/edges with a hammer, then beat the crap out of it on my gravel driveway to the great amusement of my mailman - basically scraping each side against the gravel, leaning into each side and twisting it into the gravel until it looked "well traveled". I then made a batch of strong instant coffee and applied it with a foam brush, saturating a side and then immediately wiping it off with a rag until I'd finished the crate inside & out. I repeated this on the outside so the inside would look aged but less so and "protected" from the hazards of temple raiding...
I similarly aged the raffia the grail's packed in (though I used a very large sponge and applied it to the raffia in a trash bag - it's effective but very messy) .
...And I've gotta heap some more praise onto you - that fossil hand is phenomenal!!! :eek
Take care,
Mike
madrobot
Sr Member
Thanks for the info. What I'm looking to do, is take the color out of the wood, and make it gray, like an old barn board thing. Of course, had I used barn boards, it would have been easier.
Does anyone here know Andy Gore from QMx?
rollerboi
Sr Member
I don't know how the water is in your area, but in mine, it's very hard. You can see the discoloring on *all* the fences in my neighborhood, according to the sprinkler spray.
From that, I gather you could probably just spray it with water regularly and leave it outside in the sun to bake and discolor. Of course, this is the slow way. :lol
outlander
Sr Member
Obviously, no disrespect was intended toward Bob Burns. My unhappiness with the original Greyzon prop - even though Dean Dymerski did a bang-up job on the paint - was the size disparity.
Without access to the actual prop, the best that could be done was to use measurements from the actual land suit with some scaling from blown up screen captures that were printed up. Everything that could be seen from this indicated that the real prop back in 1954 was not all that detailed in comparison to Madrobot's sculpt. Nor was the Greyzon sculpt ideal.
The quest was to try and reproduce what an actual Devonian age limestone fossil of Homo Amphibious would look like. The goal of the end prototpe is to duplicate the experience of a crate shipped from Instituto de Biologica Maratima to the Smithsonia or Chicago Field museum showing up on someone's front porch instead, after 55 years in limbo, instead of the original intended destination back in 1954.
Some thought was given to printing the newspaper in Portugese, the native language in Brazil. Purchacers of the piece could translate it or not, as desired
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outlander
Sr Member
Hmmmmm. I just had a very interesting conversation with Ed-209, an old salt in the world of props for those of you who do not know him. A font of information I wish I had thought to consult earlier on this.
There might be further developements with this sculpt and project.
J.
There might be further developements with this sculpt and project.
J.
Micromark sells some chemical aging solutions for wood - only problem is that they only come in 3.5 - 4 oz. bottles. It would probably take a hell of a lot of it to do a crate that size, so it would get expensive real quick.
http://www.micromark.com/AGE-IT-EASY-GRAY-3-1and2-FL-OZ,7567.html
http://www.micromark.com/WEATHER-IT-4-FL-OZ,7266.html
I haven't tried them personally, but I've always been curious to see how well they might work - I've had an idea for a while for a small crate/box, and I was going to try this stuff.
That's a beautiful piece you've got there. :love
allosaur176
Sr Member
I'm sorry, I didn't mean that yours was a casting of the GreyZon one.. I just meant that I had a replica Creature Fossil as well
