WIP Knight - Corvus belli

[Ironwork]

Hi all Sirs,
I have fallen in love with these little figures from the Infinity series, ab. 40 mm in size and originally born for the tablegame Corvus Belli. Amazing pieces to be painted, for those who still have good eyes, not me...
So this is a sort of challenge about : see how little I can still paint.

As a start, the white metal figure is overall primed in black.

And earliest steps into armor painting and feathering, for how much feathering can be done on that little surface.

 

[Mirofsoft]

A hummingbird is approximately the same size, just count

 

[kevininpdx]

I'm a huge fan of Infinity. Easily the best game miniatures on the market.

 

[Ironwork]

Soo nice, I think I'll do more from this series.

Now some metal shine is tested by feathering together a couple of metallic tones

 

[Ironwork]

Metals almost done, I simply didn't resist to give him a teutonic knight heraldry

 

[Ironwork]

The figure is still not finished, but meanwhile I painted and lightened the forex-made floor to enhance a 3D effect on stones.

Then a wash to enhance separation lines for the stones, and add depht to the colors.

 

[El Tché]

Hello
I'm a brand new big fan of True Earth colours. Very easy and pleasant to use. You can even mix with Vallejo colours and it makes your life easier.
I ordered a quite big quantity of colours some weeks ago.
My last sculpting (Forrest men) will be painted with true Earth so .. stay tuned

Their service is also top ! I had the wrong reference sent and True Earth sent me right away the good reference with no problem and very fiendly. I recommend !

 

[Ironwork]

Thank you much El Tchè, and you also remind me I had not yet finished this tutorial.

So... For the sake of some middle ages atmosphere, I added a piece of wall to the base, insipired from the architecture of some teutonic fortress in northern Europe.
The stuff is named "struttura", and it's a very soft plastic conglomerate for scale objects and buildings construction.
Here I used the 5 mm thick sheet, simply cut with a blade and 45 degrees corners shaped with a file. The pieces are then glued with pva,

Bricks are then gently carved with a toothpick

The whole is soaked in a mix of paint, pva and water. This step helps keeping the thinly porous, masonry-like texture of the stuff, but getting it somewhat less absorbent in regard of painting, and also harder.