hey everyone steve here at sks props and
welcome back to part two of my harley
quinn mallet build
welcome to the shop for part two of my
harley quinn mallet build series
if you did not check out part one i'll
have a link up above and down in the
description
that video went over all the different
fabrication techniques that it took to
put this together
including this awesome wood texture and
a fully
leather wrapped handle well two
millimeter foam leather wrap but it's
good enough for cosplay now since that
video what i've gone ahead and done
is i sprayed it with two light coats of
plasti dip and the reason you want to do
that in layers is so you don't obscure
any of the details that you've got going
on
especially all the little crinkly bits
that i put into the leather using the
tin foil technique
after that had fully cured i then went
in with some rust oxide krylon primer
that is going to be our base that's
going to allow all the paints to stick
to this properly
now we've got a lot to do to paint this
thing so let's go ahead and get started
now i've got a lot of really cool
textures going on with this piece and
the first thing i want to do is give it
a black wash and to do that i'm going to
be using Utrecht brand mars black
using a mop brush a ton of water is
added to the paint and that is applied
to the surface making sure that it gets
down into all the little details
a damp paper towel is used to blot away
some of the excess paint and water from
the highest points
this paint and water mixture has to be
generously applied to the entire piece
it does a couple things
number one because the paint is getting
down into the details it makes
everything pop
number two it gives a better base for
additional acrylic paints to adhere
properly
the biggest thing to note at this point
is that it is a three-dimensional prop
so i'm constantly rotating it making
sure the paint gets underneath all the
little details that i glued on
a hair dryer is used to lock in this
layer we can start adding our colors
first up we have utrecht brand
burnt sienna this paint is a heavy body
but it's a semi-transparent so i don't
add any additional water to it
if you notice my mop brush it's very
flared out and this is going to give it
a more organic and stippled look
you want to take this paint and dry
brush it over just the highest points of
the bark texture this will start to
highlight it
to start my base color at the end of the
mallets i'm going to be using some
liquitex brand heavy body unbleached
titanium
this paint is mixed with the burnt
sienna that i already have on my palette
which will help give it a more cohesive
look
this mixture is also just lightly dry
brushed over the highest textures
pure unbleached titanium is used for the
next highlight and notice that i'm
watering some of it down to paint in
between the cracks of the bark
after these paints have been allowed to
dry we're going to go in with another
wash this time i'm using the mars black
burnt sienna and a little bit of yellow
ochre to put a wash over the entire
surface
when it comes to painting a prop a lot
of different layers and color shifts are
what makes it look more convincing
especially when it's something organic
after the wash is applied all over the
surface it's also locked in with a hair
dryer
the next layer is going to be one of the
most versatile paints out there it's
liquitex brand heavy body raw sienna
i'm a big fan of this particular color
and i use it from everything from
leather highlights to rust effects
in this case we're going to be
highlighting the wood bark a little bit
more and mixing it with some of the
unbleached titanium to give it a final
pass
now i know that looks really white but
we have one more wash i know
this time we're mixing the burnt sienna
once again with the mars black and just
doing a very very light wash over the
entire surface
actually this is going to be more water
than pigment
it's time to work on our faux leather
and to start off i'm going to be using
liquitex brand cadmium free red medium
this paint is mixed in with a little bit
of the mars black and applied to the
leather wrap at the top of the mallet
while i let that dry let's go ahead and
move on to the handle and for this i'm
just going to use pure mars black
now if you notice the paint is not
completely opaque i'm allowing some of
that red oxide primer to still show
through
the checkered pattern on the handle wrap
is planned out and here i move to a
smaller brush just to make sure i'm not
getting pigment all over the place
the same mixture of the cadmium red and
mars black that i used at the top of the
mallet is also used on the red squares
here
for my highlight layer i'm going back
with a pure cadmium red with no water
i'm almost scrubbing it onto the surface
this technique will give it enough color
but will help it look worn
this same color process is applied to
the top of the mallet but using a larger
filbert brush
this kind of a painting technique does
require a delicate touch i want to make
sure to have enough saturation of the
pigment
that it stands out but i don't want to
fill in all of the embossing tinfoil
techniques that i'd done earlier
in some areas i went back and added
additional highlights just because oils
of the hand would tint the leather
differently
because the strips are two millimeter
foam i went in with some small detail
brushes and painted all
the raised edges
harley's logo and all of the rivet heads
also received a layer of the mars black
liquitex brand iridescent rich silver
was then applied to all the metal
sections
the thing to note here is that i'm
allowing a lot of that original red
oxide color to show through
this will help the entire piece look
more cohesive but also it's more
visually interesting than these bands
just being silver
so i use a larger brush to paint the
tops and sides of all the metal sections
and then i switch over to a detail brush
to paint all the little rivet heads
i started off painting a bullseye on the
end of the mallet using the original
wood color and some of that cadmium red
and
absolutely hated it i felt that black
would be a better look on the ends for
the overall design
and that's the great thing about paint
is if you don't like it go ahead paint
over it
the cadmium free red was used to
freehand the rings on the end and a
little bit of paint over splash on the
sides
that additional paint obscured some of
the ring details so i went in with a
very small brush and brought those back
out
and here we have harley's mallet at
least my version of it and i think
that's why i enjoyed this project so
much
is it wasn't just replicating it was
taking an iconic item
and putting my own particular spin on it
maybe that's something that i do a
little bit more in the future
and this particular build i also was
really happy with how some of the
different textures came out specifically
the wood grain that's up here on the top
i mean this is something reminiscent to
what i had done a couple years ago with
stormbreaker which was successful
but i can definitely tell that i've
improved on this technique over the
years
same thing goes with the leather wrap on
this handle or foam leather wrap
it still comes off as convincing as a
leather weave
and you know these are the types of
techniques that you guys can pick up on
and utilize in future build
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