Post by jayadan on May 10, 2010 20:01:46 GMT -5
This is the statue from the new Honored Imperium Terrain Set. I decided to do it in faux marble. This is how I approached it.
I haven't done faux marble in years and the last time I tried it I wasn't a project that was as ambitous as this one. Not counting assembly and primer this project actually only took about three hours total. Not too bad for something that was essentially completely experimental.
I started with black primer. Then, I took a little P3 Troll Base color mixed with Liquitex Gloss Medium and a bit of water at about 1:2 - making it a little transparent. This was applied directly to the black with a small sea sponge. I dabbed the whole thing once, let it dry a bit, dabbed in again, let it dry, and on and one until the color built up. The trick seems to be to keep the paint from smearing too much. Once the base was where I wanted it then the fun part started. That is, painting the cracks. I added a lot of the troll belly color to the existing color to lighten it up. Then, I painted the cracks in with a feather rather than a brush. Why? Because the feather will naturally move around as you paint with it keeping the cracks much more natural in appearance. I had done a google image search to get a sense for how the cracks should look so I tended to keep them flowing in the same direction - but obviously they don't all go the same way. If any of the cracks looked too pronounced then I would either dab them with my finger to blend out the line or I would do it with a brush. When that was done, I went back over a few of the cracks with a brush to add a bit more emphasis ti them. At that point I was pretty much done... with the statue anyway.
The base is pretty straight forward. A little black, a little off white for the broken area... some drybrushing... done.