A good friend (not miniature) has asked me if I could make something fitting for a display of Lemax Scary Town Theme figurines. I'd already promised before realising that those are 1:32 scale :')
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| Photo from Lemax site |
I suggested some dripping candles on pumpkins and skulls, thinking that would be the easiest to do something like that for that scale. Fortunately she liked that :)
I've made the candles just the way I always do; learned from a tutorial in the DHN (Dutch) magazine by Marike's Magical Minis, with translucent white and a scrap of cognac fimo.
After baking them however they'd turned out yellow-ish and had tiny cracks. Not sure what I did wrong; the mixing or the baking.
A friend told me that they look the same colour as church candles, the beeswax ones. The colours were not the worst though, I was worried about the cracks. Didn't want the candles to break.
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| The 'original' candle on the left, unbaked clay on the right. I've painted some tiny pumpkins I had a brighter orange than I normally would since that seemed to fit the Lemax style better. I also added some washed down paint on the skull(bead)s. |
I think I didn't like them much because of the previous candles (in the back); they look so much better.
But the next day I discovered that the candles looked so much better in daylight :)
From the left over clay I've made some 1:12 scale candles, since you can never have enough of those ;)
