"Morlock Conversions: STAGE 1" Topic

What do you think so far?

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I started off with a couple of spare figures to experiment from this set:
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I still need to bulk up and define the musculature on the upper body. Towards the end, I will add the hair.

Apologies for the bad lighting at the hotel.

CC
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By the way, for this attempt, I decided on the 2002 "Time Machine" Morlocks:

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CC

Samantha Mumba, eh? Whatever happened to her?

I'd like to see 'em with some paint on. By the way, did you ever get any further with your Chig project, CC?

My Chigs were left at home when I started this trip. I've already been on the road 3 months.

When I get back home (IF I get back) I will pick up where I left off on them Chigs.

Oh. One more thing . . . With these two Reaper figures, the pose was basically the same. To give the appearance of variants, I made one face the far right, while the other one faces the far left. Does that trick work?

CC

Very nice, though I can't help thinking of ET when I look at the one with the pick.

"Does that trick work?" – I'd say yes.

LOL. They kinda did look like ET.

However, I think that the resemblance of the 2002 Morlocks and the Sphinx from the 1960 film is more than coincidental.

CC

I prefer the Morlocks of the Rod Taylor film version. Just watched it again last night, for about the billionth time.

CC:

A really nice start! They truly do look quite like what you're after with the 2002 version of the Morlocks and will look even more so with hair. Is it too late to get a deeper groove on each side of the prognathism? That might distance them from the ET look. Also, the next you do need some ready-to-rend Eloi biters showing. If you're going for the "hunter Morlocks" from the link you showed, they do need quite a bit more bulking as those guys were big.

Mysterioso

That's some nice work. And yes, simply adjusting the pose does wonders for giving a sense of "difference."

The weapons confuse me. Did the Remake Morlocks use weapons? I don't remember the ones in the original version using anything but tooth and claw…

Mysterioso: "Is it too late to get a deeper groove on each side of the prognathism?"

Not too late at all to do any changes. What's prognathism? Please refresh me. Thanks.

Doctor Bedlam: "Did the Remake Morlocks use weapons? I don't remember the ones in the original version using anything but tooth and claw…"

Below ground they had all sorts of cutting tools and machinery parts. Above ground they seem to have hunters that went on all fours and had blow-pipes to scent-mark their chosen ones and ropes to drag those to be culled from the "herd".

I was somewhat limited by the figures available. However, according to what the Uber-Morlock (Jeremy Irons) said, they were divided into castes. I will try to have some of the other Ghouls/Ghast figures with longer arms for walking on all fours. These two could represent something in between, Subleaders perhaps??? Butchers??? Armed "pump repairmen"???

Any suggestions? I'm open to anything.

CC

Prognathism: "jaw projection".

I always think of it as the area the cut tennis ball would have been on Roddy McDowell's face in the old Planet of the Apes, though that might not be spot on. Anyway, this fellow evidences quite a bit of it:

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For your Morlocks, look at the pictures of the Spy Morlock in the link you provided earlier. If you could get lines on either side of where the nose blends into the upper lip and the lower lip blends into the chin, I think it would help. (Think of the vertical lines that would "frame" the shadow on Homer Simpson's "shadow".)

I'd suggest another layer of green stuff on the guy with the pick's brows, to make the brows a little heavier and more angrily furrowed (so he really looks like he's ready to kill the meddling Traveler). That would also help eliminate the peaceful ET look.

Maybe Uruk-hai for the base figure for the Hunter Morlocks?

"My Chigs were left at home when I started this trip."

Where else but TMP will you hear something like this … ?!

Nice work CC.

Dave

"If you could get lines on either side of where the nose blends into the upper lip and the lower lip blends into the chin, I think it would help."

Mysterioso,

Are you suggesting extending the forward protrusion of the entire muzzle, or just the upper portion?

Thanks.

CC

Love your stuff but I still think the faces need to be longer not so ape like. But all in all you done a great job toss on some bad hair and you have got some nice morlocks

Thanks to your suggestions, I've made some more changes . . .

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Stage II:

Elongated the mouths, added more muscle to the back, chest, forearms, thighs. Muscles will be smoothed out further at a later point.

Hair will probably be next and, maybe, some scars and branding.

CC

Mysterioso: "Is it too late to get a deeper groove on each side of the prognathism?"

I see what you mean now. There is a clear image of one about 2/3 down on this page:

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I'll make the grooves a bit more defined when I add the hair and other finishing touches.

CC
PS. I don't know about the Mohawk hair on the Spy Morlock though.

I'd skip the Mohawk and the dreadlocks on the Hunters in favor of lank hair, which would be a tip of the hat to the older film versions (and easier to sculpt I would think).

I thought these would make good ones also.

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I am so jealous of your ability to do something like that! Good Job.

Did you go with the styrofoam heads I found for you?

Thanks for the kind words, guys.

I am still working on getting the Morlocks right. After that, I will try to come up with pieces that will turn this into a more industrial-looking underground dwelling:

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For above-ground action, this table will have to do, with lots of vegetation and ruins added, and the Morlock Sphinx in the middle of it somehow:

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So, for now, first the Morlocks themselves and then, when I finally get home, I will get busy with the terrain.

CC

Oh man. I wish I had seen this before I had even started . . .

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