INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING Model Kit POL835 6 FINAL ASSEMBLY Look for these and other great kits from “Home Sweet Home” GENERAL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS A Place “Home Sweet Home” painting sticker in Assembled painting picture frame above fireplace. Lily Munster • Before assembling model, study diagram carefully. B Place TV picture sticker on front of TV screen. Assembled • Take time to familiarize yourself with all the parts and their C Cement assembled Eddie to pillow on floor. Eddie Assembled Munster Herman corresponding part numbers. D Cement assembled Lily to floor section. (Pegs Munster • Carefully cut the parts from the plastic tree supports and ALL PLASTIC ASSEMBLY KIT on bottom edge of casket fit into holes in floor). remove any burrs. E Cement assembled Herman to floor section. • (Pegs on chair base and lower main electrical Apply cement to inside surfaces only. Avoid getting cement supply line fit into holes in floor.) on outer surfaces of model sections. • Use cement very sparingly and avoid getting cement on PAINTING TIPS hands, so as not to mar or smear plastic surfaces. PsychoTM • Bates Mansion Do not hurry. Work carefully and patiently. POL834 A PAINT AND BUILD IN STAGES • Before proceeding to cement parts together, it is advisable Glows in the Dark Paint individual sub-assemblies, and in some to fit parts together dry (without cement) so that you may cases, individual parts, before gluing in place. Witch familiarize yourself with the parts and how they go together, POL811 For example, you may wish to glue bat or rat also noting the points where cement is to be applied. halves together, and then paint this sub-assembly TV • For best results, assemble model exactly in the order indicated. before gluing them in place. You will want to paint picture the figures before gluing them in place. This • This kit is molded of styrene plastic – use only Munster’s Coach & method of painting and assembling in stages will styrene-compatible glues or cements. Grandpa’s Dragula allow easier application of paint and produce more Collector’s Edition Tin • For best results, use only high quality paints designed desirable results. Wood paneling AMT619 specifically for plastic model kits. B PAINT WASH uses a dry • TM Consider painting a textured surface, (such as the brush of gray The recommended paint for airbrush application is Badger's Forbidden Planet over a black TM back wall, floorboards or rug) using a wash. A wash base coat. Freak Flex; another good choice is Testor's Model Master. Robby the Robot POL810 is a thinned-down paint mixture (usually a color • Liquid mask or tape will be helpful in painting detailed areas. A dry brush Fireplace and slightly darker than the base color) which is applied has of white electric chair • Use small brushes for fine details. liberally with a brush. Allow your base color to dry been used to have been highlight the “weathered” Fluorescent thoroughly before applying a wash. Acrylic paint cobwebs. yellow and using a dark thins nicely with water. The thinned down paint . fluorescent brown wash orange paint flows into cracks and crevices, creating a weath- have been ered and shadowed effect. If you apply too much, used to add a fiery effect to THE MUNSTERS LIVING ROOM the excess wash may be dabbed off using a paper the flames. For details on our full model kit lineup, articles, towel or small, soft cloth. You may need to experi- announcements and more, check us out on the web at ment a bit to get the right effect. Strangely appearing on TV sets, in living rooms across the country one eerie evening The head of the family, kindhearted Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne), is a loving C DRY BRUSH round2models.com in September of 1964, The Munsters were a scream! husband, father and funeral parlor employee. Herman bears a close resemblance to the 1930s and 1940s Universal Studios Frankenstein monster, originally portrayed by Dry brushing is another method that works well on Star Trek Introduced at a time when classic horror characters were in vogue with American textured surfaces. Dry brushing can be used to TOS Enterprise Boris Karloff. His wife Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) could be Vampira’s sister, TV's NCC-1701 audiences, The Munsters celebrated the macabre humor of frightening creatures with creepy-but-sexy hostess of horror. Lily's father, Grandpa (Al Lewis), is actually create highlights on raised areas. For example, AMT610 wisecracking dialogue, outrageous visual gags and fast motion cinematography. The Count Dracula from Transylvania, a 378-year-old mad scientist and vampire. consider using a dry brush effect on the cobwebs. series revolves around a friendly family of misfit monsters and their misadventures, As an example, the cobwebs may be painted a Herman and Lily's son, Eddie (Butch Patrick), looks like a junior wolfman but with a who never quite seem to realize why people react to them so strangely. The Munsters base color of gray. After the gray has dried, apply a hipster attitude much like Wolfman Jack. The final member of their household is See image of reside in a spooky, turn of the century, Gothic mansion, located at 1313 Mockingbird dry brush of white. To dry brush, lightly dip your assembled kit Contents include: All plastic pieces to complete model and Herman and Lily's niece, Marilyn (played first by Beverly Owen and then by Pat on bottom of pictorial instructions describing assembly. Paint and glue Lane in the town of Mockingbird Heights. The home is riddled with smoke and filthy brush into the paint, and then run it across a paper not included. Model shown was assembled and nished by Priest), who is considered the physically less fortunate member of the family, although box for paint with dust and cobwebs. The use of shadowy photography echoed the expressionistic towel or other absorbent surface. This will leave color ideas — a professional modeler. she is really a normal, beautiful, blonde, all-American teenage girl. We almost forgot... only a small amount of paint on the brush. Very or come up style of earlier Frankenstein films, helping to emphasize the family's ghoulishness. with your own! The Munsters is a copyright of Kayro-Vue Productions and a trademark of Universal Studios. Licensed by NBC Universal Television Consumer Products Group 2010 Spot the family pet, a fire-breathing dragon who lives under the stairs. lightly brush across the surface of the cobwebs. All Rights Reserved. George Barris, Barris Kustom Ind., Dragula are registered trademarks of Barris Kustom Ind. and is used under license to Round 2 LLC. Psycho is The location of Mockingbird Heights is not specified in the series, however in later The raised areas will pick up the paint, creating a a trademark and copyright of Shamley Productions. Licensed by Universal Studios Licensing, LLLP. All rights reserved. incarnations it is described as a small town outside of Los Angeles, California. In The show aired at night once a week in black-and-white for more than 2-years, (70 ® & © 2010 CBS Studios Inc. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc. © 2010 Paramount Pictures Corp. All rights reserved. highlight effect that emphasizes the texture. Again, FORBIDDEN PLANET and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © Turner Entertainment Co. reality, the house was built in 1946 on the Universal Studios backlot where all of the episodes). It was sadly cancelled in May, 1966 after ratings dropped to an all-time low (s10) this will take some practice to achieve the right POLAR LIGHTS is a registered trademark of Learning Curve Brands, Inc. used under license to Round 2, LLC. ©2010 Learning Curve Brands, Inc. All rights reserved. exterior shots were filmed. The interiors were contained entirely on an enclosed due to the premiere of Batman, which was in full color. The Munsters series has effect. Most importantly, remember to just have ROUND 2 and design are trademarks of Round 2, LLC. ©2010 Round 2, LLC, South Bend, IN 46628 USA. Product and packaging designed in the USA. Made in sound stage. continued in syndication ever since and is enjoyed by all ages. fun building and painting your kit! China. All rights reserved. 5 Ceiling section Casket end 2 HERMAN MUNSTER Casket back rest 5 BACKGROUND & BASE ! BEFORE YOU BEGIN... 28 Right arm handle 4 Grandpa halves halves 48 3 A A Read General Assembly Instructions 27 Cement front body half (#24) and back body A Cement wall section (#2) to floor section (#1). Then 8 7 Casket side on back page and Painting Tips on half (#23) together. cement ceiling section (#4) down into notches of bar handle wall section. page 5 for important information before Front B Cement front (#26) and back (#25) crossed leg Cobwebs 24 body half 50 beginning assembly. B Cement small pegs on ends of andiron arms (#58) halves together. Then cement assembled legs to 75 74 B This kit includes optional parts molded in assembled body. and (#59) into holes in backs of andiron uprights (#56) and (#57). Then cement other ends to andiron glow-in-the-dark plastic. Before assembling kit, Back C Cement left arm halves (#29) and (#30) together. Back body half Bat 30 23 body half arms into openings in fireplace bricks. halves take all parts into a darkened room or closet to Left arm Then cement assembled left arm to body. 10 determine which features to paint and which to C Cement log fire (#12) into position on andiron arms. 53 halves 29 D Cement right arm halves (#28) and (#27) leave with ghoulish glow power! Knitting 52 together.