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This was my DYOM design for Reaper Miniatures, and will be released later this month (in a couple weeks really). They were very kind to let me paint one up before the actual release of the figure. I wish to send my thanks to Talin, Ron, and Bobby for their work.
Now for the painting…
The overall look I was going for, for the front view, was to use the cloak as a dark frame. I think it worked well in this case. And the whole scheme just gets brighter toward the middle till it hits white for the tabbard. Unfortunately, the white tabbard/loincloth thingie looks quite flat I realize after taking the pictures. It’s not easy shading white and not making it look dirty, but I keep trying any way.
I think I started with a base of Cavalry Brown for the cloak. It's a nice rich color, but an odd paint, so I had to put 3-4 coats of it for solid coverage. Then I added walnut to it, and painted in the shadows, and applied a glaze of walnut to deepend the shadows and blend the edges.
I highlighted with cav brown + blood red, then with blood red. I glazed the highlights with cav brown. Then further highlighted with blood red, up to german orange, and german orange + spring yellow. That's where I stopped. The last highlight is more of an edging, everything else is feathered highlights. I may have used another glaze somewhere in between highlights to smooth out blends, but not after the last two layers. I like the last layers to be bright.
To get a similar effect, instead of the Cavalry brown base you can also use Aged Red Brick, or Dark flesh. I don’t use Scab Red or Red Gore as an in between color, since they are blue reds, and I wanted to keep it all warm reds for this one.
For the base, I sawed off the usual broccoli base. I used Plastruct patio stone for the base. The grooves are a bit shallow but it’s easy enough to emphasize them with paint. For colors, I started with scurf green plus a touch of walnut or black (not sure which). Then straight scurf green, then jade green, then jade green + touch of spring yellow + touch of linen white, then add more linen white.
My freehand is still pretty dismal, not much to say there.
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