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TARZAN
Aurora Comic Scenes, 1974
Back in the days before cable TV, VCRs, and even video games we kids actually
(gasp) had to read a book just for the enjoyment of it. This guy named Edgar
Rice Burroughs wrote a series of books about this man raised by apes who
became king of the jungle, a guy named Tarzan. I recommend reading the books.
I love watching the old movies, and wish one day I'd catch someone asking
Tarzan why he named a monkey "Cheetah".
The Aurora Comic Scene series consisted of 8 of our heroes, reissued kits
that included such favorites as Superman and Batman. The box included a little
comic book with one page supposed to be used as a "3-d action display mural",
a really stupid idea.
The model is
pretty straight-forward. Take your time on the assembly and get rid of all
the mold lines on Tarzan, you want him to be smooth. I brought out the muscles
by adding red to the flesh tone for a base coat, then dry-brushing the lighter
flesh paint on. I still used "suntan" shade, the guy is naked under a jungle
sun a lot. I also gave him a light shine to simulate sweaty skin (he's
just wrestled a lion under the hot African sun!)
The lion is dark brown with golden brown dry-brushed. When I first finished
him my wife said "that's nice, but why is he green?" You see, one of my
limitations I have to work with is a red-green color blindness. The brown
and yellow I mixed somehow came out the wrong color. So the lion was completely
redone, with more yellow added to the mix for each dry-brush coat to add
depth.
Anyway, another model to put in my display cabinet, and a pretty unusual
one at that. Somehow in today's politically correct world I can't see a
mainstream company putting out a model showing a lion with a bloody knife
sticking out of it's ribs. On the other hand, there are some pretty
strange action figures being sold right now. You just never know.
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