More treasure

All the following have been painted by me & are a small part of the Goblin Treasure. The Buddha was a charm specifically bought for this, the Mayan style Goddess was found at the Bring & Buy stall at St Mary Church Christmas Tree Exhibition at Thirsk. Adding gems over the hooks hides them well & looks alright as they were too strong even with my heavy duty wire cutters!  The Egyptian bird statue & Roman duck oil lamp are replicas from the Dorman Museum. The vase was poor quality pottery but greatly improved with painting! The coins are from braiding.
The pewter Plates I added 'precious' jewels to, for amethyst, ruby, sapphire & emerald. They look the part now.
The chalices are very cheap wooden ones, painted up & with rhinestones added on one, seed beads on the others.

The Roof That Was...

Ah those best made plans. For the roof of the Goblin Treasure House I'd devised individual tiles of gold & silver randomly coloured. It took some time to get it set up, sorting the tiles, trimming, painting then placing them. It looked good. But wasn't right!
I left it overnight incase daylight brought new hope. No. Having roofed the bugger I was now going to have to remove all the individual roof tiles. The Good bits of roof looked good but the bad does look bad. It would have been better if the tiles had been an exact fit from end to end but the roof is wider one side than the other, & Nothing would have helped the roof join! Argh! The photos show how it came out & it no longer looks like that.

Swords, shield & helmet

These appear in the Goblin Treasure House miniature scene I'm working on. All of these were plain pewter or metal. The shield was a  Warwick miniature pewter, the swords were plain metal & are painted with brilliant silver for the blades & nail varnish for the hilts/ handles then with 'precious' jewels inset ;-) The helmet was actually a replica helmet in a thimble & was plain pewter. The helmet was found in Coppergate, York & is Anglo-Saxon dating to the 8th century.

Miniature Crowns

These crowns are used in the Goblin Treasure House :-)

From left to right St Edward's Crown, the Imperial State Crown, St Edward's Crown, Crown of William II.

Basic info on each Crown, the Crown of William II, also known as the Hohenzollern Crown, is the 1888 crown made for William II, German Emperor, in his role as King of Prussia. It was only used for heraldic purposes. A Crown of the German Empire was never made.
St Edward's Crown is one of the oldest of British Crown Jewels & considered the principal piece of the Regalia, being the coronation crown traditionally used in the coronation of first English, then British, monarchs, including Queen Elizabeth II. The crown takes its name from St Edward the Confessor, but the present crown is a reconstruction made for the coronation of King Charles II in 1661, following the destruction of its medieval predecessor by order of Oliver Cromwell.
The Imperial State Crown is one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom & symbolises the sovereignty of the monarch. The crown has existed in several versions since the 15th century. The modern version of the Imperial State Crown is of a design similar to that of St Edward's Crown, but shorter, inside is a purple velvet cap & ermine, externally the Imperial State Crown includes many precious gems, including 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds & 5 rubies.

Zombie Brains served on a Plate

Well the Zombie brains are now finished. Currently served up on a Plate. They started out as silver charms  then were painted up, the hook removed then the mould (green scatter) added then the bloody gore which is acrylic paint added to PVA glue which gives depth as a great effect.
These will be going into the Grime Reaper & Zombie Graveyard scene which is still being built :-)

Zombie brains all gory & dragons teeth painted

And so, tonight the Zombie brains are now all gory & mouldy, & I have also painted the dragons spines, claws & weirdly his teeth :-D
And then the Goblin Treasure House is Finished on its final exterior & interior walls painting. Had to throw out seed to make the chickens move away so they didn't accidently get spray painted with the stone paint! Roof next, chimney done now.
Love how mixing PVA glue with paint creates chunky paint for gore :-D

Zombie Brains...

Waiting for the Zombie brains to start drying... First coat of grey on, then a second whatever year this starts dry. One brain will be left like that to go into The Alcamist house, the other brain will have mould added & nice bloody gore to go in the Zombie Graveyard. I have yet to create a brain for the zombie who's lost the top of his head.....
(They're 3d charms so the hook will be cut off later, I like use them in the painting process).