McDonald's Skeleton Custom

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Promotional material.

The actual toy.

A quick exercise for general painting. Had this skeleton model from McDonald’s when A Minecraft Movie was released. I think I have everything there except for the boring cubes and the evoker.

Compared to the creeper, the skeleton provided more shapes to work with. Did some very crude edge highlighting to see how it holds up. Good, but can be better. As with the creeper, didn’t bother with the seamlines / moldlines.

Build highlights

First step, a black base coat. Only had gloss black on hand and it was a bit hard to apply, with the lighter base plastic.

The base coat. Just a light coat of "sand yellow."

A pass on the shadows. Used "chocolate brown" for this one, mixed in with the sand yellow.

Finally, the highlights. Simple white mixed in with the sand yellow.

Painting in the eye and nose holes. Vallejo rubber black.

Edge highlighting. Same white-yellow mixture used before, just painted over where the light hits the edges.

After the brush painting pass.

A coat of brown weathering oil applied, to blend everything together and add some needed contrast on the details.

• Nothing, really. I didn’t build this piece.
• Hardest part to paint was the initial gloss black primer.
• Edge highlighting was fun, but requires a good brush and patience. Both of which I didn’t really have at the time. Detailing work only took 10 minutes.
• The choice of going for a brown-yellow look worked out here — I could have painted it bone white but that would’ve felt a bit boring.
• Baseplate repainted with gloss black again.

Paint and equipment

• Badger Patriot 105, the trustworthy.
• Random brushes.
• Primer:
  • PH681 ArKom Gloss Black lacquer primer
• Main colors:
  • (Shadows) RAL8017 PH405 ArKom WW2 Chocolate Brown lacquer paint
  • (Base color) RLM79 PH511 ArKom WW2 Sand Yellow lacquer paint
  • (Highlights) PH233 ArKom Titanium White lacquer paint
• Matte topcoat:
  • PH346 ArKom Flat lacquer topcoat
• Weathering mainstays:
  • Mr. Hobby Mr. Weathering Color - Brown (WC-02)