My painted miniatures in 15mm and 25/28mm, covering all genres. https://www.facebook.com/One-of-My-Men-Became-Restless-100659928063858
Part 1 was photographed in haste and was missing a final step. I didn't want to paint in the glossy blood bits and then hit it with dull coat which would simply erase that crucial touch. So I sealed the lot then added Green Stuff World's True Blood- Blood Effect. Terrific stuff!
So here are the ones with bloody damp wounds with better clarity and lighting:
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| Picked up these beauts recently and had a good time punching up some leaves |
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| Since I'm doing all this New England horror stuff I needed to up my leaf game. Here's a sense of the scale of these next to a Victrix Austrian. |
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| Not wanting to mess with sanitizing real leaves, I picked up a bunch of colored construction paper intended for scrapbooking from Michael's. Surprisingly, they were very tough to punch out - the bigger leaves especially. |
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| That gray is actually a warm tan, and the cream is actually much warmer than it appears here too. |
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| These sheets are a little over a foot square so I just did as many as I could get away with along one side of each sheet. You can't see perfectly how to align the second and third punches but the final passes yielded quite a few broken leaves. |
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| Despite my efforts, the end result is far from voluminous. The original squares are all a bit smaller now as I trimmed off the edges. Many more passes to go! |
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| At left is what I was using - and I'll continue to but as a base, with the cut leaves atop them for definition. |
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| These are the smallest leaf punches that GSW makes and, as you can see, won't work for 15mm. I'm also not crazy about the orange. Before I punch put the next batch, I'll put a thin watery wash on both sides of streaky red and brown. The rest look fine - even the yellow. |
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| I couldn't resist trying these on real leaves and there is far less usable material out there when I started this and many were pretty manky. But they punched extremely easily compared to the paper. i'm going to pretend that mold won;t be a problem - with all the glue and sealant on this stuff I'm deciding to muscle forward. |
Leaves are falling at a great pace today in NOVA, so I reckon I'll start a bounty for the girls - whoever can fill up an empty Cool Whip container first wins!
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