mattsterbenz
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I try to take Sundays off from working on commissions, and I use that day for homework and personal projects. I couldn\'t help but get my hands on the new Warriors of Chaos spearhead box, and let me just say WOW! I haven\'t been this excited about new miniatures in a long, long time. 
(And I\'m always excited about miniatures!!!) Not to mention I haven\'t done a single-model WIP in a while either. All my recent postings have been armies/tabletop quality stuff, and I would love the input of everyone on my higher-end things. Got to get better, you know!
So I decided to start a new thing. Today I got the Prince Sigvald miniature cleaned and prepped. This is the first mini I have actually found the time to \"polish\" to a extremely smooth finish. After filing down the mold lines, I used some 600-grit sandpaper. Then I used an old toothbrush and some toothpaste (toothpaste has some gritty ingredients in it which make it great for polishing). I really like how smooth it makes the model! I\'ll be doing that again with everything.
I love the painting that Joe of \'Eavy Metal did, and after seeing that and reading Sigvald\'s history in the army book, it reminded me of Ser Jamie Lannister, from George R.R. Martin\'s \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" book series. He is described as having golden hair, wears golden armor, and the emblem of his house is a golden lion on a deep red field. So that\'s the colors that I\'ll paint him
I\'m trying to do some new techniques on this. Firstly I liked doing the reflective bits in NMM, such as on my female vampire, but I want to take this to a more extreme. I plan on reflecting lots of colors in all of the metallics. Not the SENMM technique, but something a bit different. Since Sigvald is described as having a mirror-like finish on all his armor, I think that it would be a fitting technique to try.
Now on to the pictures! I started on his torso. Note that the right side (his left) still needs to be worked on. It\'s just basecoated. Since his cape will be red, I added some red reflections on his armor (I painted these in the spots the reflections would probably be, as if the viewer is directly in front of him). To make the reflections still seem gold-tinted, I used Dark Flesh and a tiny bit of Blazing Orange for those highlights, rather than pure red.
Still have to tidy up a bit of the blending on the gold so far.
I would love to hear what everyone thinks! I\'ll try to update this each Sunday night, as that\'s probably the only day I\'ll be able to work on this.
-Matt
(And I\'m always excited about miniatures!!!) Not to mention I haven\'t done a single-model WIP in a while either. All my recent postings have been armies/tabletop quality stuff, and I would love the input of everyone on my higher-end things. Got to get better, you know!So I decided to start a new thing. Today I got the Prince Sigvald miniature cleaned and prepped. This is the first mini I have actually found the time to \"polish\" to a extremely smooth finish. After filing down the mold lines, I used some 600-grit sandpaper. Then I used an old toothbrush and some toothpaste (toothpaste has some gritty ingredients in it which make it great for polishing). I really like how smooth it makes the model! I\'ll be doing that again with everything.
I love the painting that Joe of \'Eavy Metal did, and after seeing that and reading Sigvald\'s history in the army book, it reminded me of Ser Jamie Lannister, from George R.R. Martin\'s \"A Song of Ice and Fire\" book series. He is described as having golden hair, wears golden armor, and the emblem of his house is a golden lion on a deep red field. So that\'s the colors that I\'ll paint him
I\'m trying to do some new techniques on this. Firstly I liked doing the reflective bits in NMM, such as on my female vampire, but I want to take this to a more extreme. I plan on reflecting lots of colors in all of the metallics. Not the SENMM technique, but something a bit different. Since Sigvald is described as having a mirror-like finish on all his armor, I think that it would be a fitting technique to try.
Now on to the pictures! I started on his torso. Note that the right side (his left) still needs to be worked on. It\'s just basecoated. Since his cape will be red, I added some red reflections on his armor (I painted these in the spots the reflections would probably be, as if the viewer is directly in front of him). To make the reflections still seem gold-tinted, I used Dark Flesh and a tiny bit of Blazing Orange for those highlights, rather than pure red.
Still have to tidy up a bit of the blending on the gold so far.
I would love to hear what everyone thinks!
I\'ll try to update this each Sunday night, as that\'s probably the only day I\'ll be able to work on this.-Matt
