Metaluna mutant
Sr Member
I picked up the 16 inch Polar Light Godzilla kit some years when Hobby Lobby had it mismarked for 7$ (I think they thought it was the tiny repop of small original godzilla kit). I couldn’t pass that up. It sat in my stash until I saw the 2014 Godzilla last month and I had a urgin’ to do it.
All Godzilla films are fun and I like them. But seriously, the only truly great Godzilla *film* is the dark, serious Japanese language 1954 original, non Raymond Burr version, GOJIRA. If you have not seen the original, non-dubbed 1954 Japanese version, do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s a great film and one that would never be made today.
The Godzilla suits have (until the 2000s I believe) always been black and charcoal – not green -- and I wanted the original suit look, especially the black look of the original BW 1954 version. So black and charcoal it will be.
I forgot to take a pic of the original parts, but here is one I copied from the web. Mods, delete if theres a problem. The kit itself it pretty straightforward -- large pieces, easy to assemble. There's a full diorama, I'll see about that last of all.
Two warnings, though: One: Don’t detach the 25 or so back plates until you are attaching each one. Each one fits like a puzzle piece, by number. Two: LOTS OF PUTTY. Can’t be helped, I suppose, when the entire figure is rough textured with huge parts -- which means huge, non matching ugly seams. I oozed on the green putty, then used my dremel to drill out the “channels” between the long linear "lumps" on the skin.
The Godzilla costume’s skin isn’t scales or anything else. It was lots of latex rubber strips glued to a rubber suit. It was supposed to be rough and irregular – like the horrible radiation scarring from Hiroshima et al.
All Godzilla films are fun and I like them. But seriously, the only truly great Godzilla *film* is the dark, serious Japanese language 1954 original, non Raymond Burr version, GOJIRA. If you have not seen the original, non-dubbed 1954 Japanese version, do yourself a favor and watch it. It’s a great film and one that would never be made today.
The Godzilla suits have (until the 2000s I believe) always been black and charcoal – not green -- and I wanted the original suit look, especially the black look of the original BW 1954 version. So black and charcoal it will be.
I forgot to take a pic of the original parts, but here is one I copied from the web. Mods, delete if theres a problem. The kit itself it pretty straightforward -- large pieces, easy to assemble. There's a full diorama, I'll see about that last of all.
Two warnings, though: One: Don’t detach the 25 or so back plates until you are attaching each one. Each one fits like a puzzle piece, by number. Two: LOTS OF PUTTY. Can’t be helped, I suppose, when the entire figure is rough textured with huge parts -- which means huge, non matching ugly seams. I oozed on the green putty, then used my dremel to drill out the “channels” between the long linear "lumps" on the skin.
The Godzilla costume’s skin isn’t scales or anything else. It was lots of latex rubber strips glued to a rubber suit. It was supposed to be rough and irregular – like the horrible radiation scarring from Hiroshima et al.
