Ultraman Towards the Future AKA Ultraman Great part 12

Building site in HO scale

The building site miniature set that the creature bursts up through I originally made for a television commercial. designed to be shot looking down, a giant bankers foot was to step into it. I'm not sure if it was ever used or not as I never saw the finished commercial. It was made using a number of HO scale model railroad accessories making it 1/87th scale. It was another of my models to be donated to the production.

 

The two headed creature's name was Bogun which was amusing as a "bogan" is an Australian slang term that roughly equates to a "redneck". This was another of the creatures that eventually was re-made into a man-in-a-suit for shots of it fighting Ultraman and subsequently shot in Adelaide South Australia with a different crew.

 

The pit walls were built up around the original model which was slightly re-arranged to suit the new action with a breakaway ground surface the creature could punch through.

Adm Grace is fitting some random laser cut acrylic trusses we had left over from the UMA underground base miniature set. The rock surface above is some more thick aluminium foil (fin stock) scrunched up and painted. Actually the model steelwork he is handling looks like it came from the parking garage miniature originally made for the aborted 1987 Total Recall production.

 

This was the model as it was finished for delivery to the commercial makers.

There was a small joke in the rubbish skip.

This is the view that was required for the commercial. It was intended to be only seen from above composited into an aerial view of a city.