Darren Latham - Lord of Blights Masterclass - Part 05: Painting the Wood
Part 5 of the series and we are on to painting all the wooden sections around the figure.
Painting wood. Not a problem. Should be pretty simple right?
There I was. Desk all cleaned up, only the tools I needed to start on this section. Nice big pot of tea at the ready and...
"Hang on a bloody minute... There's no wood-grain on this miniature! It's all flat bare plastic with a couple of notches and holes in!?!"
You see... I hadn't watched this video ahead of time because I finished the previous part so quickly. And I thought this was probably going to be a bit of dry-brushing, washing and edge highlighting, done.
Oh no... we're painting in all the bloody wood-grain by hand! I hadn't tried this in years... But we're here now and that's the way it's done...
Out came the reading glasses...
This was the easiest part. Solid brown basecoat followed by a black wash to bring back the detail and tint the colour.
I'm not going to go blow-by-blow here. B…
Painting wood. Not a problem. Should be pretty simple right?
There I was. Desk all cleaned up, only the tools I needed to start on this section. Nice big pot of tea at the ready and...
"Hang on a bloody minute... There's no wood-grain on this miniature! It's all flat bare plastic with a couple of notches and holes in!?!"
You see... I hadn't watched this video ahead of time because I finished the previous part so quickly. And I thought this was probably going to be a bit of dry-brushing, washing and edge highlighting, done.
Oh no... we're painting in all the bloody wood-grain by hand! I hadn't tried this in years... But we're here now and that's the way it's done...
Out came the reading glasses...
This was the easiest part. Solid brown basecoat followed by a black wash to bring back the detail and tint the colour.
I'm not going to go blow-by-blow here. B…
