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Tuesday, December 15, 2015

What's old can be new


This was a very interesting project... taking an ancient Ral Partha figure and giving it the "new figure" treatment.  

I used the new style foliage to create overgrown effect on a fun little sculpey vignette.


I can remember years ago trying to sculpt something similar to this with unbaked sculpey... not thinking that it would be a million times easier to do so once it was baked. :-)


The last time I was painting figures such as these, the technique was radically different.  It was more along the lines of the standard "GW" approach.  Painting this one in the manner which I do now was quite an interesting experience.

An exercise like this seemed even more useful, since I have had so many examples of the very latest in sculpting and manufacturing coming through here!!


Yes indeed... sometimes what is old can be new!


2 comments:

  1. I love the Ral Partha models from yesteryear. What an amazing miniature. The freepainting is just wonderful and the base looks 'monomental' :-). Beautiful work.

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    1. Thanks! I definitely don't want to dismiss these older figs too soon! :-)

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