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 :)

 

Girvin's Orange Top

Girvin (right figure) got a orange sweatshirt. The brownish red trousers is nice. But I'll paint the shoes black not brown. I already got the feedback, that the miniature seems to be too bright. I wanted to darken the cloak anyway. However I don't want to paint it black. I consider doing some stripes or checker boards on the trousers to compensate the lack of details on this miniature. I recognized, that the eyes are not really visible.

All parts have only one layer of paint, yet. Next I will do some shading work on the face and on the cloak.

 

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!

Girvin's Base Model(s)

For Girvin I keep two options open. One is a Fenryll Halfling in resin. The other one is Hasslefree's Luke (tin). Both are pretty fair models. The Frenchman is nice detailed and there cannot be much on such a small creature. When I removed the mold lines (de: Gussgrate) I accidently broke the scabbard. I glued it again but I fear it is still flimsy. Luke had almost no visible mold line. The daggers are actually knives which I filed sharper. Now both models are ready for priming. I will remove the sprue after priming and replace it with a transparent flying base from an old GW WE eagle rider. I also have a spare 25mm transparent round base but maybe I will do a more scenic base.