Hair dryer limb blowout successful. Now to figure out the right sequence of steps for acrylic dry brush highlights + an oil wash to bring out the scale details….

Uh oh. Dry brushing metallic paint does not work well on a small scale (I now may or may not have aluminum particles in my lungs)

I’m also thinking about if I want a cool umber or warm brown + black combo for the oil wash. Not crazy about the existing flat greys so an umber could unify…. Hmmmm

Hmmmm thinking about if I want to do acrylic dry brush first…. Unsure of how well it’d adhere to the polyurethane varnish.

(Thinking as a form of avoiding the hand breaking hair dryer limb fix, which I have to do before I do anything)

Thank GOD for matte varnish! I thought I was doing a horrendous job for my 1st shot at metallics but it’s less of a (too dark and glossy) mess than I thought.

My admittedly insane game plan is:

- blast with hair dryer and see if I can shove the limbs back into better (less smooshed) position
- dry brush highlights in acrylic
- gloss polyurethane varnish
- black oil wash for the details
- partial satin varnish

It’s from ULTIMA ONLINE which I later learned is an MMO from 2001 where you can play as a GARGOYLE

Woah that’s me

Hey Sandy,

Hope this post finds you well - Can you come over sometime this week to help me jam Beth’s legs back into shape after I blast them with a blow drier?

Pressure inversion is giving my hand nerves a case of the Mondays

Love,
Andy