Here is a figure i’ve jus’ finished while i’ve been waitin’ for some forum friends to help me out on finishin’ my Ashigaru.
I decided to extend the base and groundwork out to the edges of the plinth base. I used Milliput for the foundation, and then added some small stones gotten courtesy of my back garden. I then brush painted some Vallejo Coarse Pumice all over the groundwork and around the stones, includin’ the lead base to tie everythin’ together, and make it all look consistent.
Also, I did a find some real fine foliage out in my garden, which happened to be in scale. This, I then airbrushed and cemented in place with thinned white glue, same for the static grass.
Have noticed your works here and on another forum, and I must say you are very talented.
Hope not to get too personal, but you surely have a lot of time in your hands, otherwise I can’t explain how you manage to make so many figures with such excellent paint work in such a short time (three figures in two months if I counted correctly).
Keep it up!
The back of the shield did have some existent grain effects already sculpted in, but they were very faint. So I produced my own with the back edge of a scalpel blade. Then I basecoated it and then highlighted it with some drybrushin’, three coats of highlights were added in this way. Then to show some of the plank edges, I used some oil paint which was then blended out.
I always paint designs with very thinned down paint. Then once the symmetry looks good, I block the design in with colour. It doesn’t matter if you have any raggedy lines 'cos the paint is thin and is easily painted over, and the design is easily refined. Also, the mistakes don’t show up as any ridges when painted over. The thinned paint should be the consistency of water. Cheers!
