Hi All,
Firstly I hope everyone has a great NEW YEAR and I'll see you all in 2016.
Ok I have completed the Trooper Skeleton and as always here is the recipe.
Figure - The armour and back pack are from Bandai and the skeleton parts are from Figma's Skeleton figure. I just made the armour and then inserted the skeleton in to the connection section of the armour. For the chest area I just used the armour and not the inner section of the Bandai kit and just put the armour over the skeleton.
I used black cloth to simulate what was left of the body suit and just cut out pieces of cloth and glued them into place.
Base - is a piece of marine foam cut out and I then marked out where I wanted the figure and removed the foam so that there was a shallow hole. I then mixed plaster of paris, sand and PVA/woodglue and fixed it all together and then filled the shallow hole and let it dry for about 5 minutes then pushed the figure into the plaster.
Once the plaster dried I then made stones from marine foam by pulling apart the foam until I got the look I wanted. I then glued the stones into place and let it dry and once it was I then mixed the same mixer of sand plaster and glue and started laying it over the base and figure but not covering the figure.
To get the weathered and beat up effect of the armour I Vallejo paints and drybrushed the armour and then used a baby wipe and dapped it over the armour which removed some paint and mixes the drybrushed paint together to give it a worn effect.
The skeleton was painted using Vallejo paints and I did drybushes and washes to give it a worn weathered look.
Ron
