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Step 12
Now that the Wickerman was glued firmly
to the base I sprayed the whole model
with a white undercoat. The undercoat
didn't cover the wood too well but
I knew it would be soaked up. But
I didn't want to smother the wood
detail.
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Step 13
I then had a real dilema about the colour
of the wood. I had Coat d'Arms paint
218 Wood Brown but it just looked to
bright. So in the end I opted for colour
534 Dark Leather.
The whole model was painted including
poking the brush into the chest cage
and covering the victims.
I was very awre that I would have to
try and paint the victims through the
cage bars but would worry about that
later. By covering them in the same
paint as the rest of the model I was
hoping I'd only have to highlight the
parts showing through the bars! |
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Step 14
This is what the model looked like once
completely covered. You can just make
out a different brown colour on the
base. This was the Wood Brown colour
that I felt would have been too bright. |
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Step 15
Once the base coat was dry I started
to dry brush the entire model with
colour 228 Buff. This was a little
too bright so I mixed it with the
Dark Lether for the first dry brush
and lightened it a bit for a second
layer.
I went back to the Buff colour and
painted the chopped ends of the logs
which had the lighter internal part
of the wood showing.
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Step 16
Next up I started painting the leather
straps binding the Wickerman together.
For this I used colour 116 Barbarian
Leather. It contrasted well against
the wood.
I also started on the rocks on the model
base. These got a coat of 501 British
Khaki and a dry brush of 517 Desert
Yellow. |
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Step 6
Now onto the last, you can see in the
picture how well the leather straps
came out against the wood and also how
much of the real wood grain remained
after several layers of paint.
I won't lie to you and say painting
the victim inside was easy, it wasn't.
I ended up having to touch up some of
the wood that I got paint on while painting
the victim. The victim it's self was
done by just dry brushing over the brown
base coat the victim got at Step 13.
Given the difficulties I think painting
the model and the victim before constructing
the cage might have been a better idea? |
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The WIckerman!
And so the finished model complete
with flocked base.
Quite frankly considering I started
building this model with no experience
of doing anything similar or a wealth
of visual inspiration to aid me. It's
a miracle it came out the way it did!
I'd even go so far as to say it is
probably one of the most unique models
out there.
I love it and am over the moon at
the result.
This is going to be a good centre
piece for my Undead Hordes. |
Nearly Forgot!
And here we are again this time with
miniatures to show the scale of the
model a bit better and a lovely dark
and evil background :)
Hope you enjoyed the making of the
Wickerman!
Jeremey (AKA Germy) |
