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| Milliput ground effects |
A mixed bag this week. I was a little light on painting due to illness but managed to do a wide range of other activities. First off was doing some of the ground work for my 54mm Samurai. I used some Milliput and filled out the blank area on the base. Just some gentle ground variations to make it a little less boring. Then I filled in the cracks between the resin cobblestone piece and the wooden base with the leftover Milliput. I also painted up the back of the wall piece in good old flat black.
Next up was some mold making and resin casting. I made up a couple of molds for some pots I had purchased recently as I wanted quite a number of them for a market diorama I have in the back of my head. Also using the left over Pinkysil silicon I did a quick mold of a tree piece I had made but didn’t use for my 54mm Prince of Novograd. This was pretty much the case of “got left over silicon, quick find something small in 1 minute to make a mold”. The macro shot shows what amazing detail you can get out of a home cast. It will make a great fallen log on a base.
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| Resin log love |
As my wife prepares for the next cosplay adventure I’ve been spraying various toy weapons to make them look less toy like. Many plastic swords are now black and/or gunmetal. I even got break out my old Paasche model H airbrush as the larger nozzles it has are great for mass coverage of larger items.
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| DIY scatter/flock |
Many moons ago I saw a youtube video made by RubbishInRubbishOut about making your own flock/scatter material out of sawdust and cheap acrylic paint. Having done a large amount of woodwork recently I had some sawdust to play with. First I used some flyscreen and sifted the sawdust to remove the big chunks. Then using the cheapest paint I have (the $2 for 100ml type from the discount store) I added just enough water to make it liquid. Then I just kept adding sawdust and mixing the two until there were no more clumps of paint. I found that once the sawdust doesn’t feel wet to touch you are pretty much at the right ratio of sawdust to paint. Any more and you end up with bits of sawdust that don’t get coloured.
To be honest I hadn’t really expected it to be that easy or to work so well. I made up five batches just to experiment. The beauty of this is that you can use just a tiny amount of paint and only produce a small amount of coloured scatter. No more buying a huge bag that you will never use. Mind you I already have those huge bags so this was more an exercise in producing odd colours of scatter to add some variety to the basing materials cupboard. Any colour of scatter I like now.
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| 54mm Samurai |
Any finally, I got a bit of mr samurai done. I put a hold on the breastplate for now. Not happy with it but sick of doing it. I worked on the yellow areas a bit and they are tracking ok so far. The shades down are reasonable and I need to work the highlights some more. The ankle areas aren’t right so I will need to have another go there. But in all the yellow worked better then I expected given how little I paint yellow.
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| 54mm Samurai |
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