Bretonnian Lord WIP

[Thomgirl]

So after finishing the Truthsayer, I'm now feeling a little better about continuing with a conversion some of you all may recognize that I started a long while ago. Well, between getting overwhelmed by the project of painting him and moving to another state and preparing to move AGAIN in a few months few thousand miles from where I am now, I'm trying to buckle down and get this Lord finished before I make this next move in January. I had started before on a different paint scheme of reds, blues, silvers, golds, but I started feeling like I was painting a harlequin jester more than a noble and fearsome knight. So, I started over, scrubbed him down, and re-primed in black. I've decided to go for a more simple color palette of browns, reds, golds. I figure those colors blend so well with each other and I make a very rich looking Lord but with a more simplified color arrangement. So for now, I'm starting with the armor on the mount and the knight's lower half. All I've done is laid down a single color of a metallic gold paint. Tomorrow, I'll be on to applying the shading. I'm going for a more bronze look than a shiny gold look, so it'll be dinged down. I know it's not much to critique on as of now, but since I've been such a lame-o when it comes to painting this guy, I'm going to need some help and support getting through this (he as seriously scared and frustrated the crap out of me). Here's what I have thus far:



Please, please feel free as this project moves along to push, poke, prod, harass, use a cattle prod, critique, comment, anything to keep me motivated. He HAS to be finished by January (preferably sooner so I can move on to some other mini's I have laying around to accompany him). Thanks to everyone in advance for putting up with me!

[Friar]

Hi there just one little tip that I've heard a few times before, if you want easy gold do a base coat in a sandy brown color, silver a base coat of grey, and so on it helps to get some nice coverage alot easier then metalics straight onto black. Hope this helps

[freakinacage]

snakebite leather is a a good undercoat for gold. makes it shine somehow

[cheelfy]

Starts well but I think you should give more contrast to your gold.

[Thomgirl]

Thanks all for the comments thus far! I sorta realized the error in putting the gold straight on to the black primer about halfway through, but ces't la vie! The pictures don't do a good job of showing the true colors of the gold armor, there are shades of greens, purples, and browns in there, I swear If there's anything that's jumping out at you guys though that seems off or needs some sort of attention, let me know! I care a lot about this little guy and want to give him a proper paint job Thanks again folks!

[BPI]

Hi Thomgirl, the gold is coming on fine, I can see the purple & green okay, keep working at it! If you look at each individual scale of the armour & think of it like painting a gem, do you have that range of contrast? I'm not suggesting you individually gem each scale, it'd take ages, but any one that's a single colour should be reappraised. Do you have a White Gold highlight over yellow gold there? If so, I don't think I can see enough of the yellow anymore. Not because of the shading, just a little too much white gold, unless you're going to highlight further to a silver? May all just be my fuzzy head & lighting in photos of course

Keep up this pace of updates & he'll be done in no time, paint on! Cheers, B.

[Niall]

That gold looks good. I think you need to just make it look more goldy instead of brassy which the horse head is going towards now.

[Thomgirl]

You have a good eye there, B. I dry brushed the white gold color over the more prominent areas of armor, but I think you're correct in that I've lost some of the rich gold tones in there. The scales are so tiny! But I think with my magnifying lamp I should be able to pull off your suggestion. I agree with you too Niall about he faceplate on the horse. I think metallics whether NMM or true are the fussiest things to get just right! It's amazing what some of you guys can do with them on this site! Hopefully I'll get some more work done tomorrow and I can post what I've got next. Cheers!

[exilesjjb]

Gold is looking very nice could maybe do with bit more contrast between folds and ridges, as for the red I like that a lot hope you can get the highlights on as well as you have the shade, keep up the good work and you will be done for x-mas not Jan.