Rackham Giant barbarians

[Dunkle Zeiten]

Yes, I think that that this is the point.

I often noticed, that my daylight light bulb under some circumstances brings out the white undercoat more than twice that bright as under normal light conditions. Makes it really hard to know when to stop. What a relief using black undercoat, zickzack and the mini is finished (but at what result).

 

[emms]

Next to the end of it

I can say that I almost finished with this mini. I kept the axes for the end, as a dessert :beerwave:

The objective, in addition of giving a mate to the previous Barbarian, was to paint several kind of leathers on the same mini.
I have painted 4 kinds:

1. Blue/black. The risk here is to be confused with metallic. I hope the difference can be seen
2. Dark red
3. light red
4. brown yellow

The belts in the brown yellow took me several hours.

So here is a five picture view of the mini.

What else can I say ? I had to do and redo the face several times, especially the eyes were difficult because I always had an angle which didn't work. To have correct review of them, I have
[highlight]taken high definition pictures -> viewed them on my computer -> correct them -> review them again[/highlight]
until the result would be acceptable.


Below, five view of the mini to have a turn around.

 

[emms]

Opinion requested

Before painting NMM axes, I made a simulation to check the effect.

See below two variants, which one do you prefer?

or

 

[emms]

The base almost finished

I have painted the base, which I consider ok in the main lines.
Here are the views from front to reat :

As I explained previously, the column is a pencil, the stones were carved in plaster, ivy is sculpted in green stuff, and grass is (very fine) sand.
Comments welcome

 

[SkelettetS]

right or wrong, id probably paint the axes like in variant 2, so dark and light fades agains each other on the axhead.
great job with the base! :good:

 

[emms]

Thanks SkelettetS, this is also my opinion so far.
I'll work on it next week-end, ain't sure I'll be as smooth as my computer, but it is always a nice challenge to beat the machine :hammer:

 

[emms]

Painting the axes

Here are the 3 steps which I went through to paint the axes, based on variant 2 exposed above.

First, try to get as regular colours as possible, with several light layers of paint.

Second, bring the dark zones

Last the light zones

The colours are VERY contrasted, but it is hard to show this with the picture and the angle.

 

[emms]

Barbarian 2 is finished

Here are the pictures of Babe2.