Elns' progress

This model does well. The leather parts look good. The robe is nice. Shield color is not good, yet. I will spent next efforts on facial details and hair. Nuff said.

 

Capes

Like all oldschool fantasy heroes they are all wearing capes. I don't know why I have chosen green twice. But that's the color I know how to handle due to my Woodelf army.

I used 2 rather opposite techniques for the shading. The bright green cape had already a nice shading after the 1st Layer was applied. So I thinned down a darker green and applied it to the deeper areas. BTW, the same technique was used on the red cape.

The dark green cape was a complete turn over. I did not like the color as seen on a previous blog post. I started dark. Then I added brighter stripes to add highlights. Usually I have trouble with this Pretty ccommon technique. But I am really satisfied with the result. I forgot to check, what I was told how the cape should be colored. It should be ecru colored. I admit, that I have no experience with shading of that color group. The result shows, that it was a good idea to do it in green.

The brown cape is just darkened with black ink/wash. It has still nice highlights but on this photo you cannot see this. You may have noticed the new base fr Girvin. I removed the sprue part and drilled a needle hole in his feet. Then I took a regular pinning needle and glued it into the hole. The needle broke already so he is not such high anymore. But he still jumps higher than before :)

 

Capes and more

I painted Eln's cape a week ago. Because I primed white I got this lovely shading effect with one single layer of green. For the Half-Elf I wanted a brown cape until I realized, that that cape must get a red lining. So he also got a green cape, but there I have to do much more shading due to the dark color and due to the liquidness of that color. I took again an older color which was going to dry up in the pot. Curses to the producer of cheap color pots. My 15 year old Games Workshop colors are still fine. But my 2 years old Games Workshop colors become (almost all of them) useless.

As you can see on the picture above, the red lining looks excellent. I made this picture at night. Sorry for that.

I did not paint the lining around the head part, yet. I need a better mood for that more difficult part.





The lady will maybe get a white robe. I just put a base layer "bleached bone" from the really old color range on it. So I can either highlight it more and more to get a white rag. But I can also put some chestnut ink on it to get a brown cloak. I bought a new red ink. Then it will become a red clothing.... No final decisions are done, yet.

The little guy on the left got some jade green on the pauldrons because they will be made of bronze. The axe will show no green when finished, for sure.

Giving Soul

For me, the moment when you give some paint to the faces, is always like giving the miniature a soul.

My GW Foundation Flesh Paint was already drought up. I painted only 3 miniatures with it :(

Now I bought the ArmyPainter skin tone. It is pretty dark I think so I have to highlight pretty much of that. Fortunately this are only 4 faces. The gnome should get a dark skin tone anyway.

This is all just the first layer. I had the green and purple just opened when I added the little pieces of color. Korgan's chest is not painted in flesh, it is a brown layer. Also Eln's leather pieces got a first brown layer.

One week later I put this black layer on all parts which should be covered with metal paint later. Also Korgan's hair is black now, so that I can drybrush it to dark-gray.

PS: hab vorhin erst nen Kommentar gesehen und frei geschaltet. Bitte nachschauen.

PSS: Fun fact: Korgan hat Falten in der Stirn. Die waren im Modell schon drin, jedoch so schwach, dass ich sicher war, dass die nachdem Farbe draufhatte kommt, nicht mehr zu sehen sind. Ich hab die vor dem Grundieren tiefer reingeschnitten mit nem Modellierwerkzeug. Das hat sich gelohnt! Das wir klasse!

Nose corrections

While I was planning next steps, I recognized an accident. The upper lip and the nose of this miniature were flat. I took the sculpting tool and pushed the tin with fine force into shape. But the nose was now to short. I pushed the tin a bit more towards the eyes so that I was able to put a blob of green stuff onto. It looks really terrible on the photo due to the different color. But it is perfectly in shape.

Elns' Base Model

I had trouble finding a suitable female miniature. Now I mix two models which means some work. Both are Darksword miniatures. Many miniatures are either half-nude and Red Sonja style or wearing Anime style armour. So I use the sword arm of Lady Elmore which provides some leather pieces. I will attach it to Lady Easley. Both models are great. I was not aware of that miniature line before. I love the classic look.

The cleric wields a fine mace. While the left arm was manufactured as separate part the right arm was attached to the miniature. So my first step after removing the mold lines was cutting of the arm. That worked pretty well but took some time. Now it looks like this.