A religious experience

Here's a base of an Essex Carroccio and some praying monks. I originally started this in the late 90's but only got as far as the waggon, I didn't like the way the wood colour appeared and the purple cloth didn't go well with it.

I've been looking at it every so often thinking what can I do and then I tried some white and repainted the wood with a new pot and it worked . The colour on the monks brown habits came out too dark after I sprayed the matt varnish on, but I like the whole effect now.