September 19 2009 | Second shot of the browning

September 22 2009 | The plaster base

Time to do the base!
Just plain plaster

September 22 2009 | Extra grain

.. yet to adda bit of grain, a bit of water over it and then pour some extra plaster like you would with flour on a cake..

September 22 2009 | Extra plaster bits

okay good it added a bit of detail, but ooooh wazzat? i am sooo careless! this is some extremely diluted plaster that i spilled over and that ended in drying in a very thin cat over the garden table! let's take it!

September 22 2009 | Adding small plaster bits

Let's pour some extremely diluted plaster on the base and just throw the small bits over it..

September 22 2009 | Trimming the plaster base

let's be further realistic in trimming all bits that are out of the plaster surface..

September 23 2009 | Painting the fig

Undercoating with some acrylics

September 23 2009 | Undercoating

Then I tried something new.
Some 20 years ago, there was some decent LHS in the town I lived in and the guy always boasted this or that. One day he told me "You know Bill Horan? he spends only a couple of hours painting his figs, he just undercoats them with thinned down black oil paint, waits for a night and then wipes the excesses with some brush and adds highlights"
Sounded pretty crude, and then i learned after that BHoran uses only Enamel.
Whatever, i decided to give it a try with some thinned down dark green oil paint with turpentine to see how it would look like