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Painting Statue Tutorial

The document provides instructions for turning a Disney Infinity toy into a statue that can be used as a centerpiece for a Marvel: Crisis Protocol tile. It details the steps taken which included gluing the figure to a base, adding filler to create a stony texture, priming and highlighting with an airbrush, layering various inks to build up color modulation, and finishing with weathering effects and graffiti on the base. The completed statue is shown integrated into the new park-themed tile.

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Painting Statue Tutorial

The document provides instructions for turning a Disney Infinity toy into a statue that can be used as a centerpiece for a Marvel: Crisis Protocol tile. It details the steps taken which included gluing the figure to a base, adding filler to create a stony texture, priming and highlighting with an airbrush, layering various inks to build up color modulation, and finishing with weathering effects and graffiti on the base. The completed statue is shown integrated into the new park-themed tile.

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Turn a Disney Infinity Toy into a

Statue

Hello!

Last month I decided to turn one of the Disney Infinity toys into a statue to use as the centre
piece for a new park-themed tile I’m currently working on for Marvel: Crisis Protocol, and in
this post I’d like to share the process for doing so.

The “guide” is a little rough because I was more or less improvising as I went along, but will
hopefully give you some ideas you might find useful should you wish to try something similar.

To begin with I stuck the figure down with super glue onto this lid from a face cream to create
the plinth:
And here I’m just stippling on some filler (spackling paste) to create the stony texture:

I then primed him in black followed with some grey and white zenithal highlights applied from
above with the airbrush:
Next, I sprayed on some Sepia Ink by Daler Rowney. I thinned this with some water (maybe
around 1 quarter water?) and sprayed it on in a couple of thin layers, taking care not to over
spray which might cause the ink to run. You can see that the zenithal highlights have been
nicely preserved:

Next I sprayed some of Daler Rowney’s Dark Green Ink quite lightly into the mid tones and
highlights, and didn’t mind if it was a little irregular – so stronger in certain parts than others:
I then mixed a few of the other inks I’ve got to create a dark purple tone (I played with Indigo,
Purple Lake, and Sepia, but any dark, purplish tone would be fine):
I sprayed this from a lower angle, up into the shadowed areas:

This gave me the nice range of colour modulation I was looking for:
Finally, to increase the depth in the strongest shadows, I applied a little Payne’s Grey:

This is a lovely blueish/purplish off black:


I shot this to some specific places only, such as the lowest part of the shield:

And here into the shadow on the lower back:


And that completes the actual statue – minus any weathering you may wish to add:

For the plinth, I used a grey scale of Stonewall Grey (VMA), Black, and Ivory:
I also applied a light dry brush to pick out the texture:

Followed with some thinned Shades (Agrax Eathshade and Athonian Camoshade) which I
applied in quite a patchy way:
I then freely added a few spots of weathering using Ivory, greys, even a little Nihilakh Oxide
etc:
And I’ve begun adding some posters and graffiti to the plinth:
I’ll probably add some more graffiti, but you get the idea!
And that’s it! I hope some of you found this post helpful. Of course there are many different
ways you could paint the statue; you might prefer a more weathered, stony look like I did
for these two:

I just need to finish off painting my “Daily Grind” coffee stand, and the new park area will be
complete!
Watch out for more coverage of Marvel: Crisis Protocol from me soon, including painting
guides for Green Gobin, Hella, Rocket, and M.O.D.O.K.

Stay safe, and Happy Painting!

Sorastro.

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