Welcome to The Wonderful World of Miniatues ...

Right, I have been working all week to try and get some miniatures painted. It has been a long time since I did any and have found it very challenging coming back to something so small. I have to say, however, that I am very pleased with the overall finish I have achieved.

I took loads of piccies of them and if people are interested I'll upload more and maybe do a little tutorial.

So leave me a comment if you want to know more. Have fun.....

..It's all in the details,

Right now, this is where we make it nasty :) . To begin with I took some sandpaper, again fine grit, and scuffed some of the places which would be the most hard worn. So for example, the sides of the mask where it would be held to put it on, and any really raised parts like the nose area. I then mixed a really dirty colour, and really watered down, I found that the ideal thing for this is the water you clean your brushes in. I used a big brush as this doesn't need to be neat, and washed over the entire mask to dirty it. Now where you have scuffed the surface the colour will take better so keep this in mind. I did this a few times to get the look i was happy with.

Next lets move on to the really nasty bit. I wanted to make it look like where Jason has worn the mask for a longtime, and as he is a bit horrible, I wanted to make it look like his decaying fleshy was liquifying through some of the parts of the mask. I mixed a brown and a red citadel miniature paints' and thinned it a little more for preference. Then shaded the holes in the mask with it, and painted run lines in certain areas.

Now, i moved on to the dried blood. This is a simple technique i think, and gives a good effect. All I did for this was mix some Citadel Miniature's Blood Red paint With flesh wash and mixed it. You don't have to mix it thoroughly, as sometimes you get more red than brown and this suits the overall look. I painted alot of this around the eye to look like a tear, on the mouth section and more around the axewound. (Picture above) Once this is dry you can highlight in parts with a little more red, I found dry-brushing ideal for this. (there are plenty of tutorials around for dry brushing and other techniques. A good place to look for is here)

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Basically thats all I did. The only other thing I did, was to do four scratches across the mask. I did this last as I wanted them to appear fresh. The reason for this is, to make it fit in with another of my projects, The Glove of Freddie Kreuger.....

My first post,

Well, here goes. I thought I would start off by showing you some of my 1:1 scale pieces. Some of you wont know what this means if you don't make models yourself. 1:1 simply means that evey 1cm of the model is 1cm of the item its modeled on. So for example a model of a six inch commando knife, would be the same size as a six inch commando knife.

I'm not sure how many people will read this or in fact how many people will like my work, but I thought I would write some of the processes I used to paint the models I post. I hope this will help beginners to really get into model painting and making.

First off, Lets start with one of my favourite peices,

Jason Vorhees' Hockey mask

Right, this is a full scale wearable mask. It is a Resin kit and came un-painted. I decided to paint this firstly as a normal hockey mask and then "bloody" it up. I sanded it all over and spray undercoated it with Games Workshop white primer. I sanded (using fine grade wet and dry) and repeated a couple of times to make sure I got a good surface for the top coat.

The next step was simply using a high laquer auto paint to paint the main body of colour, this makes the mask look like moulded plastic. I think I did 7 coats of this sanding in between just to make sure it looked uniform all over. ( I think I bought peugeot, alpine white from halfords. But as this is high gloss i dont recommend it for undercoating)

Next was the red triangle. This was done by masking off a triangle and using red auto paint to create the triangle. Again a few coats with sanding in between.

Basically thats the base coat done. As we used, hi gloss laquered paint there is no need to seal or do anything else other than make it "gory". (more on this in my next post)