All Bones About It: Gingerbread Knight: Christmas 2021 Promo Figure

The past two week I worked on the Gingerbread Knight, which was a Bones USA promo figure that came in this year's Reaper Christmas Sampler. With all that was going on with preparation for Christmas, I thought this would be a fast and fun figure to work on.

I prepped the figure in the usual way, soaking the parts (comes with the left arm as a separate piece) in a dish of water with a couple drops of dish-soap added, then giving them a light scrub with a soft toothbrush, and then rinsing and drying them. I then glued the arm to the body using Gorilla superglue gel. Next, I glued the figure to a 1" primed metal washer, using Aleene's Tacky Glue. I glued the washer to a tongue depressor with a couple drops of Elmer's School Glue.

I tried to take the easy route first and use Citadel Contrast paint for the gingerbread. So I gave the figure a base coat of Ceramcoat "White"; and when dry, I mixed some Citadel Contrast "Fyreslayer Flesh" and Citadel Contrast "Snakebite Leather" together and painted it on the figure. When dry, I was sad to see that it came out very mottled. I had hoped it wouldn't, but knew in the back of my mind that it probably would. Oh, well; I tried.

I then started over, painting directly over the Contrast paint, with a mix of Folk Art "Teddy Bear Brown" and a little Accent "Mustard Seed". When dry, I gave the entire figure a coat of Citadel Shade "Agrax Earhdahde". I let that dry, and then drybrushed the figure with some Reaper MSP "Ginger Cookie", because I just had to. :)

Next, I painted all the icing decorations, as well as his epaulette and candy cane, with Americana "Snow White" I let that dry, and then did his eyes and belt with a mix of Reaper MSP "Ultramarine Blue" and Crafter's Acrylic "Tropical Blue". Then I painted his mouth a mix of Folk Art "Tomato Red" and Crafter's Acrylic "Tutti Frutti". After that, I painted his buttons with Crafter's Acrylic "Holiday Green".

I then painted the stripes on the candy cane and epaulette with some Citadel Contrast "Blood Angels Red" in hopes it would give it a bit of a translucent look. When it was dry, I touched up all the white parts of the icing with Reaper MSP "Peppermint White". Again, becuase I felt I just had to. :) Lastly I painted the entire base with Americana "Zinc".

I let the figure dry overnight and the next day I gave him a coat of Americana "DuraClear Matte" varnish. Then when the varnish was dry, I used some white glue to glue some sand onto the base. When this was dry I painted it with Citadel Contrast "Basilicanum Grey". When that was dry, I drybrushed the sand withAmericana "Grey Sky". Another overnight dry, and I sprayed the figures with Testor's Dullcote". Afterwards, I went back and painted the epaulette and candy cane with some Americana "DuraClear Gloss" varnish.