My wife is into resin, mostly because Evan and Kaitlyn’s YouTube videos inspired her years back. She’s got dice and keychains and coasters, it’s pretty impressive. But, resin can be a little pissy and all sorts of factors can interfere with a project, and you can get miscasts or experiments that didn’t work- or experiments that did, but aren’t useful afterwards.
Enter a miniature-painting husband with an unending hunger for bits. I think the original form of this piece was for clear crystal with holographic film inclusions for a sort of glittery geode effect, for jewelry. However, I had a set of bugs that I painted up literally before I met my wife, and only ever barely got around to basing them, and most of them got clipped off their bases and I did experiments, etc. Anyway, long story short I had a boss bug that wasn’t on a base yet and when I saw this shape I knew I could tell a cool story with it.
Primed in black, then dark red, then bright red, then a layer of crackle medium and a final layer of “as close as I could get” to the colour I used for the rest of the bug bases. It’s not a perfect match for colour but it is very clearly a sort of a nest or crevice from which the bugs issue. I’ll post about this once more when I post all the bugs together.
