Brisket Bust by Broken Toad: Lawnor's first ever bust (& a cheeky attempt at winning the Spring Cleaning comp)
Hair and bodice
I'm base coating the hair and the bodice at the same time as they touch each other a lot and I was expecting each to contaminate the other. The leather I plan on painting the bodice has given me different results in the past based on a black or white undercoat, so I've painted most of it black, but left the strips around the edges and the straps. I hope to have 2 different looking leathers in the end. We will find out soon if this works. The hair was given a few coats of 2:1 Coat d'arms 224 Horse Tone Bay: P3 Ember Orange
Bodice base colourScale75 SC-32 Black leather. The 2-tone plan didn't work but I think I'm happy with it, and it means I can worry less about undercoating for it in the future. Its 10pm now so I'm off to bed. In the morning I'll work out what I'm going to do about the hair.
Back to the hair. I'm trying to follow the advice from the videos still, but the shapes and colours are quite different now. My first shade was 2:1 the base colour: P3 Bloodstone. I then made a deeper mix with an extra helping of Bloodstone and only applied that in deeper or darker areas.
I made up a mix of 1:2:1 Horse tone : Ember Orange : P3 heartfire and applied my first highlight, doing my best to reclaim the round nature of the braid segments.
Next highlight was the previous but with 1 part P3 Menoth White Highlight. The final extreme highlight was 1 part Menoth White Highlight mixed wiht 1 part previous highlight. i went back and forth between the two at times. had I had earlier shades still to hand I would have dipped in to them too.
All the paints used in the hair. The zenithal undercoat certainly helped provide variety in strand colour so I suppose the primers count for this too.
Back to the bodice. Everything except the darkest spots were given a coat of 50/50 mix SC-32 Black Leather and SC-30 Red Leather
Next highlight was pure Red Leather. This was then mixed 2:1 with SC-28 Orange Leather for the next highlight. It's a little too subtle for the camera but its adding warmth to it. The creases on the back are looking pretty cool.
1:1 Mix of Red Leather : Orange Leather this time. Again its not showing up much in the pic but its adding a polished red sheen to everything. I got it super thin and applied many layers to the open areas
I increased the amount of Orange Leather in the mix as far as I could without it overpowering the red, and then added ALL the water to it. Many layers were carefully applied over the open surfaces that neeed bring up and now it can finally be seen in the photos and looks quite good in person
I thinned down 2:1 Orange Leather : VMC 70.918 Ivory and applied highlights on the sharper edges. I then put a few drops of water in a well and mixed in 1 brush of this and used this to highlight the surfaces carefully. That's the bodice done, I think.
Nice work!
How do you get on with the ‘Coat d’arms’ paints?
Just curious.
I’ve had no troubles at all. I hear they make P3’s paints for them and I learned to paint with P3 so perhaps my experience is biased. I have a few Coat d’arms paints, courtesy of AssetDrop and the only issue I’ve had is working out where to put the punctuation and capital letters when writing the name down. I’d file them under solid workhorse paints so far. Nothing fancy. No issues. Would buy again, but wouldn’t specifically seek out. The lids have a tendency to gum up with paint and crack over time, causing the paint to dry out… Read more »