hez1
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Thought I'd post up some WIP shots on my ancient bio that I got in trade from Casey. People have been kind enough to say they enjoy looking at some of my weird and wacky finishes, so this ones for you guys...
Here's what I did initially. Pretty bog standard Ancient finish, with some added rust accents just because.
So then after looking at it, and holding it up against my bio wall to see how it would look and where the best place for it would be, I kind of thought there was too many silver bios. I mean P1, Gort, Scar, Celtic, even the Wolf has significant silver highlighting, even if it's a lot darker overall. So I decided to go completely custom. First thing I did; give it a coat of metal paint. This is a paint with actual metal particles in it that dries so tough and metal-like that it can be polished to a shine if that's what you want. However, that's not what I was looking for. This is Bronze, btw...
Once this dried (24 hours to cure fully, a nightmare if you're not the most patient. I'm not) I started laying the patinas on it. Oh yes, there's enough metal in there that it'll take a patina. First on was a general antiquing patina to dull the bronze back to a more natural brown color than the almost gold it was. No pics of this bit unfortunately. Then I took a 2 part mixed patina and slathered it on there. It leaves a black/green look to it, with some random rust as well for good measure. The general idea was to make it an Ancient in look as well as name. There's been a fair bit of scrubbing off bits that I didn't like and reapplying, but here's where it's at now. It will be staying this way until my new supplies arrive with some nice new patinas later this week.
Here's what I did initially. Pretty bog standard Ancient finish, with some added rust accents just because.
So then after looking at it, and holding it up against my bio wall to see how it would look and where the best place for it would be, I kind of thought there was too many silver bios. I mean P1, Gort, Scar, Celtic, even the Wolf has significant silver highlighting, even if it's a lot darker overall. So I decided to go completely custom. First thing I did; give it a coat of metal paint. This is a paint with actual metal particles in it that dries so tough and metal-like that it can be polished to a shine if that's what you want. However, that's not what I was looking for. This is Bronze, btw...
Once this dried (24 hours to cure fully, a nightmare if you're not the most patient. I'm not) I started laying the patinas on it. Oh yes, there's enough metal in there that it'll take a patina. First on was a general antiquing patina to dull the bronze back to a more natural brown color than the almost gold it was. No pics of this bit unfortunately. Then I took a 2 part mixed patina and slathered it on there. It leaves a black/green look to it, with some random rust as well for good measure. The general idea was to make it an Ancient in look as well as name. There's been a fair bit of scrubbing off bits that I didn't like and reapplying, but here's where it's at now. It will be staying this way until my new supplies arrive with some nice new patinas later this week.