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Modeller Build Logs
Norman Knight First Crusade |
| By Andrew Herbert | | Started: | Feb 18, 2004 | | Updated: | Mar 1, 2004 |
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OK, I know this is a different kind of armor! I'm pretty hooked on figures now, and this is my attempt to broaden my skills in two ways:
1) The figure will be painted as much as possible in water mixable oils. These are relatively new tools, and I figure this way I'll have to get used to them!
2) I need to work on painting mail and metal, and this is a pretty general skill, although most suited to medieval and ancient figures.
The figure was sculpted by Mike Blank. And is kit 54.12 in the Elite line. The knight/man at arms is posed cleaning "something" off his sword with a rag. The pose is natural, and the scuplting quite nice. Some of the facial detail and the hands are a little crude compared to other figures I've got.
Pics of the first stages of painting will follow soon. |
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| Chapter 1 - First Steps | Feb 18, 2004 |
Here are some photos of the fellow painted with water mixable oils. I prepped the figure (cleanup etc) first. I pinned his left arm to a toothpick (club sandwich size) and it's being painted separately. I drilled holes in the feet up into the ankles and added stainless steel posts (dress-makers pins cut to length after they were glued into the holes). I epoxied the metal base to a wood piece, covered the wood with tape, and painted the base. I added some static grass and dark earth tones in acrylics. I'll be adding lighter colors as I go. Holes for the pins were drilled through the base, and then the figure was glued in place. In the end the base and figure will get dusted a lot with chalk pastels. He's in the desert...
I started by putting liquid mask over the helmet and sword blade. I primed the face, hands, and all cloth areas with a light peach acrylic. For once, I started painting the clothing first. I have a set of six Grumbacher Water mixable oil paints. It includes all primary colors (cadmium red, blue, yellow, white, and orange). You can make all the other colors from these wtih mixing. So I mixed up some beige, some brown and some green to paint the clothing on the figure. I got a medium green with a blue/yellow mix. I used blue and yellow for shading and highlights respectively. The paints worked well, using a drop of water to help blend them.
The browns were made by adding some red to that green mix, and yellow as needed to lighten it. I think the green turned out well, but the browns and beige not so well. In the next step I'll show you what I did to correct that, and how I painted the mail and flesh. |
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