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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 3 - The Figure is Completed | Mar 1, 2004 |
The photos here show the next steps.
Painting the cloth
I wasn't happy with the look of the cloth areas, especially the leggings and trousers. So I went back and used some ochre gouache paint on the leggings. Then I used a dark brown gouache on the trousers. These paints dry dead flat. I also became addicted to sepia oil. I used sepia to shade the trousers, and I added a thin line of diluted sepia to the leggings along the borders of the wrapped cloth. This served to outline the detail, and add some shadow on the lower part of each wrap. Sepia is a very dark brown, and can be used in very faint applications to lightly shade any area, or with darker applications it is a nice shadow color.
As the green areas dried, they became more matt, so I left them alone. The sepia oil I have is not water soluble. Basically, my palette of water mixable oils is too small, and I found the paints don't work as well as regular oils.
The belt was painted with sepia and ochre oils over a sand base. The sepia was used to apply darker areas, and ochre for highlights. A sienna oil was used for the scabbard, with sepia and ochre for shadows and highlights.
The helmet and sword were polished with fine grade steel wool, then painted with coats of diluted lamp black oil. This added some 'depth' to the plain metal.
The groundwork was painted with acrylics to look like desert. I used chalk powder (yellow, grey and white) to replicate sand color. This was liberally applied to the base and the legs of the figure. I used less chalk dust as I moved up the figure.
I took a third place at a local contest with this fellow. I like him, and I highly recommend Elite Miniatures figures!! |
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