Spirited Away Bath House! DIY made for CHEAP // Studio Ghibli Crafts

shingles, but I end up covering the model with too much green paint, oh well! The base coat I'm using is a rusty red that I mixed a couple of months ago. It's red with a little orange and brown mixed in. I'm spraying enough paint to be able to retain some of that previous shading. the previous step It's a little difficult to be very precise with the airbrush So I end up overspraying a little, especially when I'm trying to spray the columns. But that's kind of inevitable and I was planning on doing some brushing by hand anyway.

Actually, I was going to use the airbrush. I brushed everything on, but the airbrush was quicker to get an even coat on everything. So you definitely don't need an airbrush for this project. I like to have several pieces of cardboard lying around so I can use them as a guide to keep my edges looking clean. I definitely missed a few spots while painting all of this. I tried to keep an aerial perspective of what it would look like from an outside point of view, but if you were a little Stuart Little standing on these decks, you.

You would definitely see all the missing spots without paint. I think this deep green I had was a little too intense, but we'll brighten it up with some lighter shades of green in the next steps. I'm using this neutral gray. I have it for the back, but you can use any gray you have. I don't have strong feelings one way or the other. I mainly just want to paint the gold sections. It's golden! Ugh, that's too much paint! The paint should not flow after you have spread it on the surface Gold Member: "I love goooold." For this section, you will need any off-white or even creamy beige color.

This became a fun little game of trying not to do it carefully. Hit the red columns with the white brush or I lose. Oh, I lost... To add some brighter tones to the ceiling, I'm mixing a green using one part olive green with one part of this beautiful Christmas green and a touch. off-white in color, I used a chisel brush to gently detail just the raised edges of the roof so I could retain the darker green in the gaps. With the leftovers, I carefully brushed Yubaba's windows. To dry brush all the wood, I used a light khaki brown brush.

I usually use a flat chisel brush for dry brushing, but for small areas like this I have this poor synthetic brush that I've abused a lot over the years Ooh , this next part is a lot of fun. To add some age to the red plaster walls, I'm taking some of my rust red from before and adding small amounts of pink at a time in several passes using a light motion with this piece of sponge. Less is more here, so I tried to remove most of the paint. the sponge before rubbing   For areas too small for sausage fingers, I used tweezers holding a small speck of sponge   The mixed pink was also great for dry brushing all the red all over the model And that will do for painting A From here, I moved on to adding some wood flooring to the inside of the entryway using a piece of previously stained balsa wood.

And for the entrance curtain, take a piece of denim left over from the last couple of cuts you

made

, Lindsay: "What is this?" Tobias: "Oh! Get straight to it!" I'm hot gluing a tiny square to a piece of toothpick that's cut a little too big so I can fit it between the doorway. For the

bath

house

sign, I taped a yellow post-it note to a piece of paper and printed out the characters. on it, then I used matte Mod Podge to seal it to a sheet of balsa wood, cut that balsa wood and added some age to it with a water-thinned brown acrylic paint.

I used a couple of stick segments I found outside as logs and then glued them together. I glued it to the front using a bit of white glue. I also found this stick on a previous trip to the beach. It had a pretty nice wavy look to it, which I thought looked like a bonsai tree. I glued some of the smaller segments around the trunk as if they were branches and then brushed the Whole in a light brown color. To complete the branches, I'm gluing on some pieces of Woodland Scenics foliage and then brushing on water-thinned PVA glue to add this fine yellow grass as a highlight.

Just sprinkling a little on top. It's enough to add some contrast. It turned out that my tree was too short for my stand to exceed the height of the fence. So I

made

a little platform using a couple pieces of foam board, smearing them with some black Mod Podge paint and white glue. , and then I sprinkled it on some green flocking for grass. Then I just poked it into the foam using a little white glue. Once all the dirty work is done, it's time to take a

bath

. Ah yes, lovely... This is a home bath remedy that lasts about one. part brown acrylic paint to 30 parts water.

I was actually pretty happy with most of the color on the model, so I didn't want to go crazy with the wash. So I ended up using it only on the white areas to reduce the glare a bit. For the flag, I printed it out and then used mod podge and a ping pong ball to try to form the flag into a nice little curve that would catch the wind. For the flagpole, I had a couple of sabers left over from some gundam model kits. , which I spray painted black   and then added some black thread and super glue to attach the flag   Although there are a couple of iconic details missing...

I think we need a bridge and No Face   Ok, this will be a quick build bridge for For the brackets, I cut two curved sections like this   And then I cut a bunch of coffee stir sticks into 1.5" inch lengths. I attached the two end posts first and waited for them to dry a bit   so the other slats wouldn't become They slid all the way over the place and although I thought my measurements were perfect, I still had to use a pair of scissors to cut off some of the excess that was hanging down. I decided to use hot glue because it would dry faster.

But I made sure to only use the glue. hot glue baby's breath so I didn't have tons of it squirting out the sides. I actually like a little variety so I ended up switching to white PVA glue and then super glue to keep it fresh and exciting. For the details on the tops of the posts, I reached into my jewelry bag and pulled out these little caps from the ends of a pair of earrings. And then for the paint job, we're going to do brown for the wood, red for the rails and then I'm using a gunmetal gray for the little end caps on the earrings.

I dry brushed the rails and a little pink and then used a black acrylic wash for all the wood slats on the bridge. This is just to add a little aged look. and to add some wear. And for this hungry hippo, I'm using a piece of old t-shirt, a bunched up piece of aluminum foil for the body, and some Mod Podge. Wear gloves if you do this; I made a big mistake doing this with bare hands. After it dried in a way that it looked like draped fabric, I painted it black. This body has no face, but it needs a faceless face, so I printed a faceless face on one piece. of curved plastic and then I glued that face to the faceless body.

And ready! Faceless And with that final detail, enjoy the beautiful shots of the bath

house

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