Black Prince

[John Bowery]

This is my latest project of the Black Prince from Soldiers in 90 m/m.
My thanks to Luca for his excellent SBS as it was a great help and inspiration. Hope that you like it. Comments are welcome. I took a close up of the face but it came out a little Blurry. Sorry.







Cheers
John

 

[Guy]

Excellent work John. You did an amazing job on the heraldry and the armor is great. Whats next on your bench?

 

[megroot]

Excellent work John.
I wish i could paint this.

marc

 

[paulyrichard]

The Black Prince! Lions and fleur de lys! Very impressive paintin', John. You've done him great justice!

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Very nice painting, John!
Especially the heraldry.
My personal taste though would be to tone down the armour as I said its a personal taste.

Cheers

 

[Christos]

Very nice John!
best regards
christos

 

[periklis_sale]

Very nice painting John!!!

 

[vergilius]

very well done

 

[John Bowery]

Guy, Marc, Paul, Criston, Periklis, Virgillius. Thanks for the comments they are greatly appreciated.
Janne, Thanks for your comments and encouragement. I left the armour bright because he was a ladies man. I thought that he was just starting the Tournaments and he would be all ***** and span and shiny for the ladies he was trying to impress?

 

[Roc]

John, good work on a beautifully sculpted figure.

Cheers
Roc

 

[John Bowery]

Thanks Roc.

 

[Robert. R]

Very good painting, medieval figure John !

 

[godfather]

I really like the Armour's realistic metallic look was done in acrylics, alclad? I do think it might be a bit too shiny for what the figure is meant to represent. I do believe that what he is wearing he wore into Battle (Crecy ?) what he wore in tournaments, and more likley to have women present than a French battle field , was different heradlry. I believe it was three ostrich feathers. Although having said that he was a prince so his armour would be the best
Regardless please share your technique for metals as I just took this exact figure out of my collection and plan on starting very soon.

 

[John Bowery]

Robert, Thanks for the nice comment.

Godfather, Thanks for the nice comments. As for the armour, I polished the armour first with a green pad that looks like steel wool but is softer. It is used as a pot scrubber but has no dish soap in it. I get them at the grocery stores. You can also use the steel wool 0000 grade. Next I then burnished it with a bent needle attached to an old paint brush handle. You use the bent section. Looks kind of like a "J". The final polishing was done with a toothpick cut off square and used in a Dremel tool to give a final burnish. I then coated this with Testors Gloss Coat so that the metal will not oxidize and tarnish. I used gloss coat as I wanted it bright. If I wanted to tone it down I would use Tamiya smoke. Then I lined the crevices with Raw Umber oil paint and highlighted with Silver printers ink. If it was To silver I toned it down with diluted Tamiya smoke. The Gold was Printers ink and Pale (white) gold printers ink for Highlights.
It is a great figure. I did find that it was best to join the Sword Hand and arm and Scabbard at the same time and then add the left Arm after getting the joins to line up with the scabbard. I pinned all the joints

Hope this helps a little

There is a great thread from Luca that I used for colour reference and you can find it on his v-bench
Enjoy the figure and post the results. Look forward to seeing it.
Cheers
John

 

[paulyrichard]

John, have you ever used Aclad II metallic paint? It needs to be primed and airbrushed, but can be polished too.

 

[John Bowery]

Paul,
Thanks. I really only associated Alclad with planes. Thanks for the thought.
Cheers
John