Billiken Frankenstein, hand painted with acrylics.
This is another kit, that I bought at a knock down price, in Liverpool. Just as with the Dracula kit, the previous owner, had started to paint it, but it was unbuilt. After I had cleaned up the old paint, I had to decide, which colour scheme, I wanted for him, ie flesh tones, or green. I went for the green option, I started, with a base coat, of Cittadel colours, dark angels green, I then applied several dry brush coats, using gradually lighter mixes of green and white, to accent all the highlights, but leaving enough of the base colour, for shading, I gave all the raised areas, ie brows, jaw etc, a final dry brush with ash grey, to give him a mouldy look. After a couple of coats of flat laquer, I washed darkred/purple under his eyes, and round his scars, then blended in a pale yellow wash, to look like bruising. I painted his eyes, with a flat finish, to give them that dead look, the clothes and his hair, are just flat black, dry brushed, with dark grey for highlights. The base is scrarch built again using the same techniques I used fir the Billiken Dracula |
