Told you Mickey Finn would be popular Rick.....and he looks GREAT......well done my friend...
Steve..the muddler.

Julie Adams was the girls name, and here is some great shots of the scene I am talking about.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2918357248/ch0021218
Some color shots form Life Magazine
http://robojapan.blogspot.com/2008/11/life-magazine-discovers-rare-publicity.html

Hello Doctor Pepper. . .

It's always nice to hear good news from the Good Doctor, right?

Hmmmmmm, or is that Sgt. Pepper. . . did you play in a band, Steve? With
some popular mates from Liverpool???

Thanks for chiming in here, Steve. I do appreciate it. And I still have so much
more technicolor painting to do on Mickey Finn. But it is a lot of fun. Hope
to post more photos later, maybe next week. We are expecting major Snow
Storm here in the American Heartland, perhaps over a foot of snow before it
ends on Wednesday. So I'll be inside here working on my muddling projects.

Take care, mate,

Ricardo

Aw Jeff. . . you da man, amigo . . .

OhMa'Gosh, Jeff:

You da Man, amigo. Outa sight. Thanks so much for digging up those web
sites for me. I went to both of them.

Julie Adams! Yeh, that's her name. I seemed to get the name mixed up with
the other Academy Awards winning actress, Julia Harris (from the film
Requiem for a Heavyweight, with Anthony Quinn) I hope it isn't disrepectful to
say I really thought Julie Adams was a lovely looking actress, and talented.
It just seems like so many other young hopefuls, their careers are rather
short in the public eye.

Those colour slides of the creature were new to me. I will tell you Jeff, that
my Mickey Finn will be quite a bit more tropically coloured than what you
saw in those photographs. Like you I agee. The shot of Julie Adams
swimming up above on the surface as Mickey makes his way up toward her
from the lower depths is the best image in the group. Thanks again for
doing the research on this, Jeff. That was kind of you and helped me to
recall those younger days before I owned a black and white TV, and went
to more movies. Regards, to you,

The Miami Jayhawk

You have found me out Rick....I was keeping my Liverpool past quiet....for the benefit of Mr Kite...!!!!!!!

Hee hee heee Four lads from . . .

OK, Doctor. . .

I won't breathe it to a soul . . . or a heel either. . .

G'day, matey,

Rock and Roll Oldster

Great flick...great monster, great music...great babe (Julia Adams?); and a really great looking figure happening here-- the best. Nice job!!
The Creature should be "King of All Monsters " instead of Godzilla, with dopey Raymond Burr inserted in scenes and he wasn't even in it originally.

Two Moons & Black Lagoon . . .

Roger that, mate:

Now that I went to that web site that Jeff posted and it showed more photos
from the B/W movie of the Fishy Face Creature, I am in complete agreement
with you that The Creature From the Black Lagoon should have been anointed
as King of all the Sub-Human Monsters. Godzilla? Aw give me a break. He
looked too much like a fuzzy puppet that needed dental work. And I also
think that Julie Adams is a major babe.

Perhaps I should go to the video store, before all of them close their
doors, and rent the Creature Movie and relive the past once again.

Pass the Popcorn and the waterwings,will you Mildred. . .

All kidding aside, I do thank you for taking time to comment. It is fun to go back . . . sometimes.

rickster
PS. I used the term above Sub-Human to draw a distinction between
monsters that are beasts, etc. from Monster villains of the human variety
such as Dr. Jeckyl or Phantom of the Opera.

Well mate youv'e pulled it off again by bringing something to life with your understanding of colour and artistic skills that us mere mortals can only hope to achieve . See how all your works grab the attention as soon as you post you must be doing something right .
That first link from Jeff reminds me when I was a teenager and I could hold my breath for two minutes under water in the deep end of the swiming pool watching the girls overhead .
all the best mate
chippy

A little Green around the Gills?????

Hi Chippy, my friend. . .

Green around the Gills??? Would you believe soft reddish pink and ending in
Naples Yellow. To explain, I workin on the head and face of Mickey Finn
with oil just earlier today, before I checked PF again.
So now Mickey is starting to get even more colourful; reminds
me of those tropical fish with the long and flowing brightly
coloured tails and fins.

Thanks for taking time to comment, Gordon. I do appreciate it and will send
you more photographs of both Mickey Finn and the Cavalryman after I get
a chance to get out my camera; hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday. This
big time snow storm that is coming has got everyone here in Beautiful
Downtown Overland Park rather concerned. I do so appreciate the compliment
but when I think of the master painters here like Matt Springer, Major Goose
and Dr. Pepper, I know I won't achieve that level. But I don't need to, to have
a lot of fun sharing comments and photos with the Planeteer Family.

Wow, it sounds like your swimming instructor is the same one I had. I used
to spend more time underwater than on top of it. Couldn't hold my breath
quite that long as I recall. But I couldn't get my stopwatch to work under
water. So I'm not really sure. I was about Eleven at the time.
But I was looking up at the same subject matter that you were, Chippy.

Kind regards,

The Miami Jayhawk

Hey Rick,

No worries about the time it took to find those links. I am home with a sick little girl so I had tome to kill. It only took me about 5 min. ;-)

Roger that Jeff . . .

Roger that, Jeff:

I certainly understand. I have a little girl that is the light of my life as well.
She is 39 years old and lives 1,300 miles away. But at least I had 18 years
to get ready. Hopefully, your little treasure will grow up and live in the
same city you do, Daddy,

rick

Hello Rick
very nice and quite unique
Bravo!!

Alexandros
http://alexminiatures.blogspot.com/

Thank you Alexandros . . .

Hi Alexandros:

And thanks for your kind words. A lot of the older generation, of which I am
on the older end of, do remember that film, The Creature From the Black
Lagoon. The figure has been around quite a number of years, and there are
two versions of it. One has the Creature standing up with both feet on the
ground, and the other is the one I have. Like you, I think this figure does
allow a modeler to get very creative. And of course, it may seem unique
because rarely does anyone do this figure. I go to about 6 or so IPMS
contests a year, and I haven't seen it on the Fantasy category table in quite
some time.

It was kind of you to post your comments. Have a great day,

The Miami Jayhawk

Rick, FYI:
When I used to be involved with a major monster /sci-fi convention entrepeneur, the "experts' I met told me that the creature was actually gold in color...for the black and white filming purposes...how true it was, I have no idea. I guess gold films up better or something in B&W. Or for underwater scenes.
I did meet an older guy named Ricouh Browning, who gave me an autographed picture of himself from a scene in one of the later Creature pics. "Walks Among Us", maybe.
Now there was one guy who did the swimming (it may have been a woman), and one guy who did the "land" acting. I think that might have been Ricouh.
But I've never seen it as a model painted any other way than greeny tones, and not as well as you've done here.
Super presentation, too.

Hi Again, Phil. . .

Hi again, Phil:

Oh my you really are a storehouse of information and I mean that with all
kindness, no sarcasm, I guess I'm trying to say. I think I do remember the
title "Walks Among Us", just vaguely. I can see in b/w why they would have
the creature "suit" be painted gold for the sake of how it would photograph
under water. Of course, that would be pretty boring to me, working on the
model kit of it. I'd also forgotten there was more than one movie made on
the topic. Thanks for the reminder.

BTW, Phil, I decided to post some more images of the oil painting and that
post is slugged Part II.

Have a great day, partner!!

rick

Re: Hi Again, Phil. . .

Yes, by the time "The Creature Walks Among Us" was made, they had the poor bastard in a suit!
Sad, but true.

Aw Phil, you're kiddin', amigo???? Really? I didn't even know about that film.
First time I have heard that movie title.

Thanks again, Phil for the information. Very interesting really.

rick