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<\/a><\/p>\nIt came with a faux bronzing and while that may be just fine in a color setting, it won’t cut it in my monochrome theme.<\/p>\n
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I first prepped the bell by filing down the mold lines.<\/p>\n Then primed it in my standard automotive primer gray.\u00a0 Nice that the stuff is specifically formulated to bind to metal.<\/p>\n After the primer dried, I painted it up, slapped on a diluted wash, and did some quick dry brushing. Now it was ready to go.<\/p>\n I clipped off the original stem that hung the mdf bell and drilled a hole to put a staple in.\u00a0 I bent the staple around the hole and the bell and it was all ready to go.<\/p>\n When researching the scenery piece, I found a great write-up on Chicago Skirmish Wargames<\/a> and liked that they put a light in the top of the roof (big surprise).<\/p>\n The irony isn’t lost on me that I spent all this effort and it is hard to see the bell anyway but the lighting is bad with a single overhead in this room.\u00a0 Also, I<\/em> will know that the bell is actually much better this way and that is probably the most important aspect.<\/p>\n The bell isn’t all that pushed through this week as I also finished up my lanterns and sword ruler.<\/p>\n I’d already completed the heavy lifting on these guys<\/a> but darkened them up with a wash and then used some bright dry brushing to mimic some stone.\u00a0 Nothing fancy on these and I’ll likely revisit them to bring the lighted base down to a more manageable size but I’ll consider them complete now.<\/p>\n I also finished up the sword ruler with a quick and easy paint job.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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