Logren by DocItalicus

Description	:	This is my interpretation of Logren, a promo miniature offered by the french magazine Ravage to their suscribers. I was particularly intrigued by the medioevalish taste of the mini itself. My italian friends well known painters gave me the appropriate advices to bring up this nice sculpt to life. Now, the comments around this mini are mainly two. The first one is about the highlight. I just realized how important is the diluting process so to have a good blending result with the acrylics. I was adviced to do that by my Master Painting friends and I obtained the miracle. The second comment is about the colors. For the armour I wanted to try to NMM and rather to start from the usual dark grey, I started with a more brownish background. The baasecoat color for the armour waas a mix between Vallejo Cavalry Brown and GW hawk turquoise. The mix was progressively lighted with Vallejo Deck Tan first, then with Stone Grey, then up to pure White for the shining parts. The result is very realistic in my opinion. The last comment is about the sword. Again, NMM with the upper part going from grey to white (right to left in the picture) and the lower part dark grey to light drey with some white spots and highlights (top to bottom in the picture) with pure white line just in the middle of the blade. I am very happy and proud of this job and I hope you like it

Poll results:
Number 3 overall.
First Place: 4 votes
Second Place: 5 votes
Third Place: 8 votes

From:	francesco (franciuus)	(Thu 10 Nov 2005 02:05:49 AM CST)
your best work, is a great work man! good blending and nmm tecnique! my vote is for you grande doc!

From:	John Lavery (JayeL)	(Thu 10 Nov 2005 09:43:25 AM CST)
Excellent piece of work, i love the steel NMM on this piece, one of the best I've seen. The gold NMM doesnt seem quite up to the same standard especially on the sword hilt, but what do I know, I can't pull it off myself. Really well done.

From:	Mengu Gungor (Mengu)	(Sat 12 Nov 2005 11:45:07 AM CST)
Beautiful NMM on the steel. Great freehand on the shield. Love the hair. The skin tone is a bit off. Maybe it needs a touch more pink? I don't know. Nice composition both with the base and color scheme.

From:	Mario (DocItalicus)	(Sat 12 Nov 2005 01:46:14 PM CST)
Thanks for the comment Mengu, but the paintjob on the shield (I am proud about it anyway) is not a freehand (the bretonian shield has a design on it). The skintone is better in real. The picture killed the shades

From:	jimbob1066e (jimbob1066e)	(Sun 27 Nov 2005 02:50:28 AM CST)
Howdy - saw it in another forum, and told you how much I liked it, so that is all the compliments you can fish out of me! lol. Seriously though, love the greens, and sheild as well. peace

From:	Susan Wachowski (paintminion)	(Mon 28 Nov 2005 03:10:04 PM CST)
Face and the gold NMM are the only detractions. Need some color on that face to make it stand out more, gold NMM needs darker shadow added. Very cool!

From:	Michael Stubbs` (LavronYor)	(Tue 29 Nov 2005 05:51:05 PM CST)
Really excellent job. As pointed out though, the face needs some raw umber tones and I think the red trim on the tunic makes this worse than it probably is in real view. Awesome NMM and basing and the green is also well blended. Really nice.