English Knight

[Bone]

Hi,

Here's a 90mm English Knight from Soldiers. Very much a work in progress.

Quite a difficult piece to paint from my perspective as I had a difficult time holding parts. In this instance, I painted the parts before assembling them - which meant some paint wore off as I touched it. Leaves me with quite a lot of touching up to do. I wonder if I should have assembled at least the main parts first.

Hope you enjoy the pics. Feedback and suggestions most welcome.

Cheers
Basil

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Really nice pattern you have painted on the surcoat.

Cheers

 

[Al DeFeo]

Real nice Basil. What's your formula for painting the armor?

Al

 

[megroot]

Basil,
You did some great brushwork so far..
If it is not so easy to paint subassembly's i put the whole figure together and paint then. In most of the case's that's the reality..
Can you explain how you paint the pattern on the surcoat.

marc

 

[Marcel]

Excellent start Basil! The pattern looks great, looking forward to see some more.

Marcel.

 

[Cvikings67]

Excellent job on the surcoat. Chris

 

[khorgor]

wow. I love the designs you have done on the coat. well done and keep up the amazing work

 

[theseeker]

Basil,

Outstanding work to say the least!

Rocky

 

[FigureLover]

Wow, this is looking awesome. I love the colour combination between the armour and the surcoat. What medium are you using for the patterns on the coat, acrylics or oils? I would love to know
Ben

 

[Mark S]

Beautiful work so far, Basil.
Armour looks great,what inspired that surcoat pattern?

 

[Bone]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the encouraging words. Means a lot to me.

The figure is painted with vallejo acrylics. The pattern is also acrylic but highlighted / edged with white oils. I choose white oil because its transparent and would naturally blend to the pattern easier - with acrylics I would have had to do several layers.

The chainmail was metal polished with a needle followed by thin washes of vallejo black. Some of the shadow areas on the surcoat and chainmail was done with vallejo transparent smoke (which is actually dark brown instead of gray).

Stiff - the pattern was inspired by articles on Russian Vityaz (St Petersburg figures) in HM. The pattern was simply something that was relatively straightforward to paint but just needed tons of patience and a 4/0 sable brush.

Cheers
Basil

 

[tonydawe]

Very nice work Basil,

You've made a great start and I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

 

[pkw4]

Hi Basil
It looks really good so far
Good luck with the rest
Roberto