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Monday, January 31, 2022

Genius bottle gold paint


Like a lot of fellow figurepainters I use
Vallejo paint, and I took a closer look at 
The label of this gold paint. 
There was a warning written what caught my attention:
Contains Genie....

So I quickly took the cap off, 
and with a cloth I rubbed the bottle...
PFOEF


A real Genie appeared, what a surprise!


This friendly Genie was so glad to be out of this small bottle.


He was so grateful to me that I could make 3 wishes...



Hahaha, I hope you liked this conversion, now step by step how I made it:



I started my conversion again with this
figure form the 1970s Asterix range.
On my search for Romains, 
I had to buy some extra of these...
So always fun to make a special one out of them!



First step was cutting his arms and legs...


The arms just needed another pose, so I drilled a small hole in them.
Then added a part of a paperclip for a solid construction


Another hole in his body, cut the paperclip to the right size
end bend it for the pose I had in mind...


With PVC glue I filled up the holes, and also added a small ring
on his head, around the hair.



Then added a bigger paparclip and tried to make
the right basic for his Genie rope




With Milliput, covered with paper tissue I made the right shape.
Used some Paper shaper to make the tissue hard.



The form looked perfect when dry, so a gray coat spray before painting.


During the painting, I saw I forgot his beard.
So made one from a clip for a plastic bag, and pvc glue...


I also cleaned an empty Vallejo paint bottle


And put some gold paint inside


On my comupter I designed
a new label for the bottle.


My inspiration whas this drawing,
and I must say it turned out well!





Thursday, December 23, 2021

Merry X-mas, Cheers



It's Christmas time again..


So I found a perfect lady for this occasion
on the website of Speirra Miniatures 
they sell fantastic 3D printed figures


She was my entry of a duel on Benno's Figures Forum


and for the first time since ages I won, WOW


I gave her a traditional red dress with white details


As you could see on the first picture of this post
I tried to paint reindeer on the mugs


On her back I painted a few extra gold buttons as a detail


I also painted the toenails red, it's Christmas after all 


I am very happy with the base, 
with different colors on the stones it shows pretty real


I made the beer head shine with some silver brush
but that's hard to see on the pictures

I hope you liked her, maybe next year another Asterix X-mas figure.
For now thanks for your visit and 
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


Sunday, November 21, 2021

Who's hungry


This month a nice other non-violent figure
who just made some hotdogs...


I found this at the Crisis event in Antwerp Belgium
a few years ago, a nice metal figure
Discworld Miniatures has really cool figures


It was difficult to choose the colors, I wanted to paint him a bit colorful
Since Christmas is already around the door, that may have some influence


With some extra stripes I tried to make his white apron a little less boring





I tried to paint the sandwiches and sausages so tasteful and realistic,
with some lettuce to make it a bit more colorful


In the end I'm happy with the end result, 
so enjoy your meal before everything gets cold hahaha