Brisket Bust by Broken Toad: Lawnor's first ever bust (& a cheeky attempt at winning the Spring Cleaning comp)
Straps and gloves
The straps were based with a 50/50 mix of Reaper MSP 29828 Woodland Brown and Reaper MSP 09254 Brown Wash. I got this recipe as part of a Forrest Troll kit and it was for his skin, so lets see how it looks as leather
I started off applying a glaze of 50/50 Water/Brown Wash, encouraging it to sit in the grooves. I then reclained some of the high areas with the base colour, and highlighted further with a glaze of 50/50 Woodland Borwn / Tusk Ivory for highlights. I then glazed over them with the first glaze to try and unify everything. There was a little back and forth between the layers.
The paints used on the straps
These gloves actually did paint themselves. I diluted some VMC 70.939 Smoke and it went on smoooth and semi transparent and after 2 coats the zenithal prime did its job and they looked like worn leather with no further work. I did mix a little of this witn some thinned VMC Panzer Aces 310 Old Wood and highlight further. I do fear I'm getting lazy and complacent as I near the end of this project.
The paint used on the gloves and the laces on the trousers and bodice. The laces got a final glaze of Smoke after highlighting, as the highlights were dominating them.Gerry had some advice in a recent officially Unnoficial Hobby Hangout with Sundancer. he suggested next time I do a leather like I did these gloves, I should apply chipping and weathering before applying any wash/glaze/semitransparent paint over the top so it shows through but is stained and unified in to the leather. Something to think about for anyone following this later, including myself.
This just leaves the Non metallic Metal, which I really don’t know how to do. I have an Asset Drop guide with paints for NMM gold which I have never tried. Now is the time I guess. As for the iron, I don’t really have a good starting point. I have a Scale75 guide but not the paints that go with it. Dunno how easy it is to work out what equivalent paints I may already have.
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