Dennis Hogan’s Sleepy Hollow

This is an original Polar Lights Plastic Figure Model Kit of SLEEPY HOLLOW. The kit is apparently created from the movie of the same name. So, I figured it best to design the paint method to be used on this particular plastic kit’s figure to emulate the character from the actual movie.

The Headless Horseman in the movie appeared very dark with brilliant highlights that would illuminate him as he walked through the dark of Sleepy Hollow. I thought the same thing when I pictured how I would paint this magnificent horse.

So, after washing the pieces and gluing them in proper order, I had a Headless Horseman figure ready to go. I Prime it with water base primer. After a few days of letting the primer dry, I give everything a good flat black coating of water based paint. I let it cure or simply dry for several days. Next comes some brush strokes with a small brush and I apply straight silver on buckles and sword. Maybe another small detail or two gets the same. A little time goes bye and I take a medium flat cut brush so I can dry brush small amounts of both silver and metallic grey. I finalize the figure’s paint by giving certain silver areas a black wash. This simply allowed for the look of aging here.

Same thing with the Horse. I would let you know that I used a little more silver dry brush across the body of the Horse than I did metallic grey. Silver and black wash on parts of the saddle.

Finally, of course, I painted the dead man’s face and hair with all normally used flesh tones and dark brown with a little bit of dry brushing on the hair. Also put small screws in the plastic base of the kit to attach it to an appropriately decorated wood base.

A very cool kit to work on here. And, the good news is, they have re-issued this Fantastic plastic figure model kit of SLEEPY HOLLOW.

Dennis P. Hogan