It Came From the Black Lagoon…..

So earlier this year my husband surprised me and brought home 4 original Aurora Universal Monster Models from the 60’s (Creature, Frankenstein, Dracula & Wolfman). A friend at work was selling them and he bought them right away on a steal. The problem with them is that the man who was selling them put them together and painted them when he was a little kid. Which meant taking the apart and redoing them completely.  

Us being Universal Monster Fans and having them themed out in our living room my husband thought this would be a great project for the 2 of us to work on and then display in our home. 

We decided to be generous. Since our friends Kenny and Jordan are HUGE Creature fans and have Creature memorabilia through out their entire home we decided that we would give them that model once we completed it. We decided to make that one our first project.

My husband carefully took the body apart with exacto knives and various tools. He also scrapped all the old dried up glue off of it.

He calls this picture Creature Sushi ha ha

We washed the pieces up and then my husband glued the model back together the way it was suppose to be. He left some of the smaller pieces off like the skeleton hand and tree so that I could paint those and he could glue them on when we were all done. 

Well I was nervous as I had never painted with model paint before but I give myself a nice pat on the back for  the way it came out. I tried to paint it as close to the pictures I found of the completed model online..

TADA….

As we complete the other models I plan on posting them as well!

We gave the completed model to Kenny and Jordan on Sunday and they loved it. They invited us over for Walking Dead Premiere Dinner night.. and this is how they served the meat to us…

along with pasta salad and potatoes! 

Gotta love a zombie inspired meal with your creative friends! 

LDG Nicole