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using sheet insulation foam (common building supply, used to insulate
walls), decide what size you want Garignak to be. I used 1/35
scale, because I planned on using a plastic army man figure as Jason
Nesmith's character; that made Garignak about 10 & 1/2 inches tall.
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breaking the foam into chunks, you make the main 'rocks' that Garignak
is composed of. I used mainly my fingernails to roughen up the
edges of the foam! Foam can be stuck together with low-temp
hot-melt glue, white glue, or "Slo-Zap" CA glue. Regular
model glues and superglues melt foam! I used small, stiff pieces
of wire to string rocks into arms and legs, and then used acrylic paints
to get a fairly close color match to Garignak's on-screen appearance
(enamel paints also eat the foam).
 Many
figure modelers will spend dozens of hours (sometimes hundreds of
hours!) getting a figure model done 'right'. Garignak took less
than $10, and was completely finished in 5 hours. This model won
Second Place, Sci-Fi Movie Figures and monsters category, at the Atlanta
IPMS model show, Feb. 2, 2002!
Joe
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