Showing posts with label kraven. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kraven. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2020

1966 SPIDER-MAN Aurora Model Kit Re-Issue! Re-Built and Crazily Customized!

Here's another fun model kit re-issue that was a blast to re-build! It's the Polar Lights re-offering of the famed 1966 Spider-Man model kit from Aurora! I added lots of fun features when assembling this larger-scale re-issue, so follow along below! Click images to enlarge!

Above: I carefully detailed Spidey's suit webbing, with a very fine artist's pen!
Also note his reflective metallic eye-pieces!


Above: I wanted to add a more realistic and "organic" web-line, so
I used some fine mesh fabric for the job!


Above: I had a ball detailing Kraven, using not only enamel
paints, but paint pens, artist's pens, marker...




Above: I added a colorful gradated background to the transparent "web-wall" behind the kit!
















Above: I also added some grit to the floor, along with using dry-brushing
techniques to add textures and darker areas...







Above: So, where did the Aurora firm get the idea for this particular scene?
The above panels come from AMZING SPIDER-MAN # 34, from
early 1966!


BONUS: Click here to see my customized Aurora Hulk kit, and here to take a peek at the Captain America model kit!


Friday, August 2, 2013

Spidey vs. Kraven vs Tigra! 1978 Albert Bigley Art! Marvel Comics?!

In 1978, jocular John Byrne was a new and exciting up-and-coming comics artist, and fans were treated to his version of the (then still) spectacular Spider-Man (and a myriad of other mighty Marvel characters, such as Tigra) in the merry MARVEL TEAM-UP title. Nobody was more thrilled with Byrne's art than a young me, so dig this 1978 cover pencil repro I attempted, at age 13! I tried to add my own sense of shading and effects, possibly intending this for a never-produced painting! Click below to enlarge!

You can tell I had just learned the "shading with the side of the pencil"
technique here! And, say, where is the rest of Spidey's body?!

Monday, May 25, 2009

1974 Spider-Man "Covers!" Kraven Strikes Back! Albert Bigley Art!


More from my days of John Romita worship (like things are different NOW?)..Trying so hard to replicate the "feel" and excitement of the SPIDER-MAN covers of the day...

Again, I HAD to include al the indicia, logos, balloons, and tiny details..As if the cover artists hand-drew all that stuff in addition to the cover artwork...

"A Tiger's Prey for a Spider?"

Stan Lee, watch out!