Fingers crossed that this greenstuff alone solution will do the trick. Perhaps I should have added super glue in first.

I used a soft tipped ‘clay shaper’ tool to sculpt the greenstuff and I used saliva on the tool to keep it from sticking to the epoxy putty.

I mixed equal parts blue and yellow, nothing fancy.

I rolled a tiny snake out of GS between my fingers and then stuck it into a drill hole. Once I got enough into the slot I broke the snake off and then went about smushing the greenstuff into and around the hole with my shaper tool.

Remember to let GS dry for a long time, like 24 hrs at least. It takes awhile to harden into its final form even though it starts to harden within the hour of mixing it up.

#hobbystreak day 31

Inspired by the podcast Trapped Under Plastic, let’s see my TRUE WIPs, warts and all.

Let’s start with good news. I painted up this wraith’s sword and gauntlets and I think its coming along in the right direction. I got a little crafty with the recipe.

All credit due to youtuber Ninjon for inspiring me to mix colors into my metallic paints.

In his video he mixes gray paint and some other colors into a bright aluminum colored metallic paint to get darker shades. Me, not having dark shades of metallics on hand (despite me trying to buy a dark shade of metal… turns out scale 75 ‘heavy metal’ is pretty dang bright), decided to give this mixing method a try.

But I used black ink to mix instead of grey paint.

At first I got a dark grey that I used as a base coat for the metal on the ringwraith. But as the ink and paint solution sat on my palette the ink overtook the paint’s natural silver hue and I ended up with glittery black. Could be good for something else but not what I wanted here.

To highlight the metal on the ringwraith I used straight up heavy metal. Edge highlighting is still new to me so I laid down the heavy metal with caution on the sword edges. And then I went for the ridge in the center and laid down a big ugly streak of paint by accident.

To compensate for my mistake and for the fact that heavy metal looked way too bright next to the black metal, I kinda swiped heavy metal messily along the blade to imitate scratch lines and ended up with a visually textured surface that pleased my eye. Overall still too bright but when I hit it with some washes I think it will end up looking just right.

For my next wip I played with drybrushing red onto a couple of my starry night guardians to see what happens and.. well I’m less than thrilled with the results.

I tried to mitigate the red by glazing navy over it but it didn’t do much to it.

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The good news is I succeeded in getting the magnets out. The bad news is there was some collateral damage along the way to that end.

I looked far and wide (on the internet) for a solution that didnt involve putting new holes in the plastic. i tried stabbing a pin into the crack between the magnet and the plastic to lever it out, I put the magnets in the freezer, but in the end I resigned myself to the fact that damaging the arms was a cost I could accept to get these magnets out of their sockets.

I read that drilling at an angle to the magnet is best so I did that with all the arms. I also put them in the freezer for 24 hours first, since I read that the freezer can make super glue brittle.

Every magnet came out with the drill method.

The biggest room this method has for improvement in my opinion is that I wish I had some kind of net down to catch the magnets as they popped out. Some went flying but luckily none fell on the floor.

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Note: I mentioned before I might try a soak in “super clean” to undo the glue but after I watched Goobertown Hobbies’ video on super glue where he demonstrated that super clean doesn’t actually dissolve the glue, I didn’t pursue that strategy further. Ive read people claim that the cleaner at least softens the glue but seen no demonstrations to back it up.