My first Bones (kinda WIP, but mostly done)

[lexomatic]

These are almost done.

77009 Werewolf: the basecoat reminded me of the maroon and tan Wolverine costume from way back. I promptly got rid of that, but I wish I hadn't. I might try to bring it out a bit at the end. I did blue veins after the basecoat, but they're pretty faded now. The highlights didn't work, but it's a step. I really like the blue eyes - they're piercing... but not too visible from this picture.

 

77098 Spirit: I wanted to try glow in the dark paint. I based with matte medium. Then I did about 4 coats of glow in the dark paint. It takes a really long time under a lamp to get it to glow faintly. I'm probably going to go for some more coats. It did kinda dry with a cloudy finish, though.

Then I saw someone's mini with the clear tamiya, and I decided I wanted to try that. I have some artists' acrylic ink (prussian blue) that I mixed with the matte medium. I used that on the shroud. It looks pretty cool. One thing I love on my ghosts is a pale color as a drybrushed highlight. I really like how the pale blue looks in person. Not sure how close it looks in this photo.

This one still needs the plastic base coloured - I'm thinking of trying matte medium with some brown ink I have. Keep things as translucent as possible. I might properly base this one later as an experiment with some Golden Pumice Gel medium.

 

[AnneO'Leary]

I'd never heard of paint that would glow in the dark. That's pretty neat and you've done some interesting things with colour.

[youwashock]

The blue on the ghost's cloak is very effective. Cool points for going with the GITD paint, too.

[lexomatic]

Thanks.

The blue was the only way to do what I wanted to do with stuff on-hand. I would totally do it again.

This is the fluorescent paint I used. The youtube videos are not really worth looking at, though.

[lexomatic]

7709 Werewolf

I'm sad about that little bit of paint that rubbed off on the thigh, but you can't see it in person. I only just noticed now. Oh well.

After basecoating, I was reminded of maroon era Wolverine because of the Mahogany/Tanned Skin combo.This guy looks dirtier now.

Edited November 27, 2013 by lexomatic

[lexomatic]

I just realized that I never posted a pic of the finished spirit. I'll get right on that after I do some more painting.

[lexomatic]

Here's a final version of 77098: Spirit

 

 

I thought I'd have some fun with some coasters as backdrop. I had to use flash because it was really dark today.

Oh well.

[youwashock]

Diggin' it. The wolfie, too. Not sure how I missed that.