Bretonnian Lord WIP

Thomgirl

Thomgirl

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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:
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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

Friar

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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 :smile:
 
Thomgirl

Thomgirl

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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 :D 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!

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BPI

BPI

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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 :D

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

Niall

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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

Thomgirl

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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!
 
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exilesjjb

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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.
 
Thomgirl

Thomgirl

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Ok, so I've been gone for a long while now... or at least it seems that way and have finally had some time to sit down and post something in regards to progress. I am unhappy to say that the only picture I have taken thus far is this one and it is quite bad. The wonderful thing about bad pictures though is how well they point out things that aren't so great about the mini :) That bit of greenstuff there to make up the reins is not going to be there... I love the whole idea of lots of fabric on a knight's mount, but I think it just overcrowds everything else at this point, so they're going to be removed, and more simpler version put in place. I have a goal though, and that's to finish this guy by the end of Friday. There's a local painting competition and it'll be the first time I've entered anything of the sort. Either way, I've learned a lot more working on this guy and I can't wait to finish him and move on the the next! I am, of course, all ears for critiques, but there probably won't be much changed unless it relates to the base and highlighting. There comes a time where you just have to call something finished and take what you learned from it and move to the next! Final pictures to come... Cheers to everyone and hope the painting's been going well!
 
BPI

BPI

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Good to see you back Thomgirl :good: & I hope you enjoy the comp. Any exciting prizes to aim for?

If you've time, a couple of small weeds growing between a cobblestone might be nice. The helm face looks as though it might benefit from a little shading too but from what I can see in this pic, it all came together really rather nicely :)

Cheers, B.
 
Thomgirl

Thomgirl

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Thanks guys for the advice. BPI, you read my mind! The idea with the weeds coming out of the cobble stones was exactly what I am going to do with it, like a whole earth starting to cover up a ruined castle road. I hope to have it worked out tonight with the base, so I'll post some pics then :) Since both you and cheelfy mentioned shading the gold some more, I'll work on that a bit more too! :)
 
Thomgirl

Thomgirl

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Ok, trying to take a break to keep from going cross eyed... (anybody get that feeling when you've painting a long time?) so I thought I'd post a picture of the near final project. Why does it always seem that the closer you get to being finished, the more time it actually takes? Anywho, the base is done and I'm now thinking I should do the whole Bretonnian army with basing like this... thought it turned out pretty nice. Anyways, 6 X-Files episodes later, this is what I've got...
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On the above picture, there's a nasty black area on the horse's harness over the hip area, that's where a shield will be hung, so no worries, it won't be there much longer :)

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Thomgirl

Thomgirl

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This should be the link: http://coolminiornot.com/248221

I'm a little sad though... the picture is not as large as I would like... I may have to rectify [rectified] that. Thanks for the votes! I am happy to say that I won first place at the local model/miniature competition (there were cars, planes, ships, figures, dioramas, it was cool!) with it today in the figurine category and I received the "Best Paint" award. It was my first competition in the miniature painting world and as small as this win may be in the grand world of it, I can't help but feel totally stoked and encouraged to keep going!

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