Scratchbuild #4: Manda

Here are some large images of the fourth scratchbuild from Bill's Kitchen: a mini-diorama of the famous scene in DESTROY ALL MONSTERS where Manda wrecks the monorail tracks. The diorama is 1/250 scale (in scale with Kaiyodo's 1968 Godzilla); the base measures 30 cm long by 13 cm wide; Manda itself is 40 cm long. Manda was sculpted using the same technique as the Hedorah and Kamakiras, using Super Sculpy to make the rough shapes and then doing the detail work in Milliput. For Manda's scales I used custom made scale texture stamps. I tried to accentuate the folds and wrinkles the are present in the real Manda puppet. I also added some individually sculpted scales to break up some of the regular pattern. The base was made mainly of styrene; the monorail tracks used styrene strips, as were the pylon pieces. I used a plyers to rough up the edges of the broken pieces.