Tonight I gritted my teeth and decided it was time to really get a little more serious about finishing some guys if I want to beat a deadline...so here comes the under-papering and painting.
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| First, the really long horns guy needed his eyes cleaned/scraped. |
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| The robot-y guy needed a good face scrubbing...I am not sure the plaster cloth sloshes will stay gone...his face is pretty damp here. |
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| I have found that if I cover the raw dry plaster cloth with layers of thin tissue paper the paint goes on smoother...and/or I can "color" with various papers if I decide to because they will adhere better to the tissue paper than to the plaster cloth. |
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| First layer of tissue paper. |
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| The toilet paper I use comes wrapped in tissue paper -- I have a never ending supply and using it this way keeps the tissue overwrap out of the trash. |
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| Now on to the base of the really long horns guy...the paper will cover the sloshes of plaster cloth and the painted wood base. |
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| That's better...I may add more, but for now -- it is much better. |
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| And while I was at it, I put a thin dabbing of Payne's Gray around his eyes and down to his eye balls...I will do detail painting later. |
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| I know I will never ever get what I am seeing in my head onto the surface of these guys...quite often in the end I just paint them pretty flat. |
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| But it is a start, anyway! |
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