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The next step was to acquire some metal wire and
suitable gem stones (from shops populated by hippies or accessory shops populated by
young girls [a hazardous undertaking if you don't have the girlfriend in
tow!]. After experimenting with different types of wire (to make the
veins) I concluded that the easiest to use was solder wire (a soft lead
composite) as it is easily bent into shape with bare hands and relatively cheap
(electronics shops eg Maplins), once cut to length the wire was placed in
the appropriate positions and glued in place. The gems are left
unattached at present as the model will be easier to paint without them. Leaving
the model looking like this: NB: I sanded a small piece of circular dowel and attached it to the structure to add some more dimension and clipped the small circular vein endings from a GW plastic sprue. With all the modeling done I primed the whole thing with a coat of chaos black aerosol spray before applying a basecoat of masonry paint, I say masonry paint, what I mean is normal paint with sand mixed in, (I'd experiment with the mixture first so you get the right consistency before applying it for real).  As I say you don't have to paint it like mine as quite frankly you might hate it, but it's worth doing some paint tests to see if the colours work first. In addition you may want to add some transfers of decals to yours, I did stuck some GW ones on, but IMO they were too thick and didn't look that great hence I unstuck them.  The final task was the affix the gems and stop them cluttering up my desk as they have been for the past 6 weeks (I work slowly OK I do have a full time job). To do this I used generous amounts of PVA glue mixed with some paint that was the same colour as the gems.  And there we have it. | |
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