Brush With Death 2019 Entry
A Week of Missteps
As the title suggests, the week was largely a bunch of mis-steps. Between other things, I tried several times to lay down the beginning OSL work, so as to be ready for more detailed jobs during the weekend.
Each attempt felt worse than the last.
I was quite happy with the first attempt, but after looking at it I wasn’t confident in my ability to convey the idea of graffiti on the walls in such low lighting conditions. The second picture is my attempt to brighten everything up. However, the paint wasn’t acting how I wanted or expected on the foam, an impression that was confirmed when I went in and added yellow.
I wasn’t able to get the kind of control I wanted over the paint – I couldn’t drybrush and whenever I added a little water, it seemed to soak into the foam.
After a few days of this, I took a break from the diorama and primed the minis.
The OSL priming was looking good, but holding the dwarf in the diorama only confirmed how unhappy I was with the lighting I’d done so far.
After some poking around the internet, I decided the foam probably wasn’t prepped correctly. So, I added a few layers of a cheap acrylic paint over the work I’d done previously, then varnished it using Army Painter Anti-Shine. To my relief, the spray propellant didn’t melt any of the foam.
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