Back again after another pause. I decided to work on some more D&D characters to resharpen the painting skills after the break.
This time the character is an animated suit of armor that is under the control of our wizard and is part of our little band. We decided her name is Tiffani and she is a gentle giant. I was commissioned to create a model for her, and so I decided that her plate would look incredibly fierce and intimidating to further the comedic juxtaposition to her personality (she also doesn't speak, so we only get a sense through actions).
I immediately thought of Chaos Chosen Warriors from Warhammer Fantasy (now called Age of Sigmar.. I dunno). I had fun with it.
I actually worked on 3 concepts. One with contrast paint, and the other two with different paint schemes. I was going off some of the examples from the box which looked really good.
I'm not sure which one will be picked as the finalist, but I think there are two strong contenders.
I think the red one is my favorite. The theme was red and brass and I was really happy with how it turned out, and I also liked the helm. The practice with red cloaks was a great learning experience. Red is still really tricky to work with, both Vallejo and Citadel paints are very thin and watery in the middle red hues.
The blue one also turned out pretty great, it kind of had a frost theme going. I started the armor edging with Vallejo Natural Steel which is quite dark and has a blue tint. It was a bit too dark and didn't pop visually at a distance, so I went over it again with Vallejo Silver. The lines are a bit thick on the shield, but it looks pretty good at table top distance.
The contrast model was neglected. I think contrast is amazing for cloaks, fir, and fabric, which I think is pretty well established. For the armor, it was tricky getting the black/gray the right shade uniformly, and I'm not sure how to go about highlighting and adding detail/matching color. So it only took a quarter of the time to do and still came out pretty good, but it doesn't have the same level of detail as the others. But the fir and cloak look great. This is definitely the way to go for a horde army of beasts/skin etc (orks, skaven, bugs, etc).
I also painted them disassembled and it worked really well.
