Korvus MD (Aarakocra Grave Cleric)

Korvus MD

For my main DnD campaign, a friend is playing as a Aarakocra Grave Cleric with a plague doctor theme.  The character uses the plague doctor mask to hide his beak, which I think is genius!

He has access to 3D printers so he designed a mini on Hero Forge (https://www.heroforge.com/) and printed it himself.  However, they didn't have the hat that he wanted, so I offered to sculpt his character a hat and paint the whole thing.

Here is the finished article:

The hat was made out of two pieces of plasticard cut out using a Cricut.  A Cricut is a 2D cutting and writing machine that is used mainly by people for fabric and graphic design.  My wife got one last Christmas and I worked out that I could cut shapes out of plasticard with it!  This made it really easy to get the shapes I needed, a ring and a disc. 

I filed away the top of the plague mask and laid on the disk with superglue, which I had measured out to fit beforehand.  I then superglued a small plasticard tube to get the height and act as a base for the greenstuff.  Then came the tip of the hat.  I greenstuffed around the plasticard tube several times, each adding a little bit and allowing to set so I didn't bugger it up by trying too much at the same time.  I went over the intended shape so I could use a rounded file to take away until I got the concave shape I wanted.

 For the paint job I mainly followed a tutorial on paint black cloth, briefly you start with black, wash with a dark blue, and slowly add a bluish grey to highlight.  The symbol on the cape is of his diety and was free handed, which was pretty hard.  I marked out the whole thing with a very dilute gold so I could get the proportions right, then after making the first layer, I cleaned it up using the dark grey.  I should have blended the touchups better but I was so worried about messing up the symbol further that I thought it best just to quit while I was ahead.

All in all, I'm really happy with it and it was a relatively quick paint.