well Aragorn's been finished for a while now (I forgot i posted him here) so here's the update. The first pic is how it looked (someone elses pic) straight out of the box. The clothes had NO weathering at all, the coat looked like it was made out of thick shiny rubber, the bottom edges were cut too straight and didnt look worn.... basically everything looked brand new, and often the wrong colour.
HOW IT USED TO LOOK
I don't even have time to type in everything i did........ I'll just say that I... no wait, hang on... I can copy and paste from another forum... lol stay there a sec
*runs off to another forum*
ok i got it....
this is a copy and paste from another forum... but it briefly describes what I did to the figure.... followed by some pics. Enjoy
the quick description of what I did is.......
repainted the face (obviously)
sanded the jacket to remove the sheen
painted the jacket with a wash of 'mud' coloured liquid.. just to remove the sheen further
used scalpels/scissors/screwdrivers/drill bits and anything else i could lay my hands on to make the bottom hems of the jacket/sleeves/inner tunic more worn.... more like the prototype we saw
painted the jacket with splashes of mud etc.... dry brushing... flicking... fingers... anything was used
painted the inner tunic with a mixture of black and dark brown, to make it much darker and closer to what we saw on screen
mudded up the boots
painted the inner shirt with a wash of black to make it darker, and look more worn, and sewed the collar together (temporarily with black cotton, to be replaced) to give it the accurate 'buttoned up' look
sewed down one of the collars of the tunic to give it a folded over look
painted the string ties of the tunic with craft glue and hung weights off them to make them 'hang down' like the real string... mine were all over the place and didnt look scale accurate at all
painted the patch on his jacket sleeve black (almost) the light brown was not screen accurate
folded over the back of the tunic, to make it look better fitting at tthe front, and sewed it in place
...and probably other stuff that I can't remember right now...
