Screamin' Freddy Krueger

by William G

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Halloween 2005

 

As I have been a fan of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies for a long time, as well as dabbling in special effects makeup, I thought I would share this nice kit from Screamin with everyone in celebration of our favorite holiday.

This figure is  in 1/8th scale and is constructed out of PVC.
1. The vinyl is hard and difficult to trim as well as being too soft in some parts to sand and reshape, Miliput is my friend here.
2. The hat is not shaped right to allow it to sit on Freddy's head without looking like a cartoon.
3. No detailed shoelaces on the work shoes. it has basic lacing details on it, but you will need to add the bows, I made mine out of thin solder. Also I filled the shoes with Miliput to give them some strength
4. The shoulder seams needed extensive work as it looked like Freddy was wearing a sweater vest, Miliput here to make the sleeves blend into the body. I made a stamp from a small piece of 2 part RTV Putty to use to blend and give texture to the putty as it was being worked.
5. The Sweater and arms were primed using Flat White primer before I assembled it fully.

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6. The pants were a perfect shade of brown out of the box and just needed a coating of clear flat to allow me to weather and shade them to look right.
7. The face and hands were detailed as follows..  Flesh was painted using various Citadel Colours, and after each layer was completed a coat of flat clear was sprayed over to set the colors.
    The colors used were 3 shades of flesh, red as well as black and white with a little yellow and blue to break up the monochrome look in some areas, got to get the burned flesh and the deep wounds to look right.
    Eyes were painted with a little white with a drop of flesh to make them look more realistic, Light blue and dark blue went into the eyes to allow them to look more realistic, as was a little highlighting and the black of the pupil.
    Teeth were painted first with Bone then light dry brushing of yellow and white with a thin wash of flesh wash to make them look old and stained.
    The glove was painted with brown leather, allowed to dry completely then coated again with flat spray, before the copper and the knives were painted.

After all this was complete I looked for a base to display the figure on, Had a great idea to do it with a boiler but ran out of time before a model show to complete the kit and base
SO I found a square of plastic that was the base of a Butane Lighter display from a C-Store I used to manage many years ago.
This plastic needed a heavy coating of grey primer ( actually 3 coats of heavy grey sanding primer) to make it look like concrete. then about a week of dry brushing shading and overall work to make it look like a concrete slab.
After this had dried I took the kit and mocked up where freddy would be on the base.
Drilled a few holes inserted some aluminum tubes and miliputed them into place on the base and inserted them into corresponding holes in the bottom of Freddy's shoes.
With that in place I figured the only things missing were copious amounts of good old Hemoglobin, 

So breaking out my effects kit I took out some of my scab and wound goo, took some thick tissue paper and mixed up some entrails, as well as a few spots of dripping goo for the floor,

All in all this kit was a blast to build, gave me an excuse to pull out my Make up skills and go out and buy a copy of the movies again on DVD.  The build took about 10 hours, and the painting took 2 weeks...

Interestingly enough I entered this at my local Hobby Town USA, and did not get anything but a lot of wow's from everyone, as I was the only person with a figure kit I kinda felt gypped.
This year I entered this with a model of a Guyver I built while I was in Korea back in 1991 and the Guyver got 1'st place in the Figure category... Oh well

Now this figure graces my nieces bedroom in Kansas.

William

Photos and text © by William Greathouse