Templar Sergeant XIII c.

[Yarok]

Hello everyone,

I'm getting a crack on the beautiful Templar Sergeant from Pegaso. The parts cleanup is well on its way, but since i'm not that much confident when dealing with figures that needs building after painting, so i want to ask you all for some advice (particularly from anyone who build it and painted it )

(more pics on Pegaso's website)

So this is what i've done so far (please consider all seams filed and every parts polished with the ol' motor tool):

- welded both parts of the cloak for strength, prepped the mating surfaces where they join at the left shoulder, just below the leather belt fastening the shield;
- glue together both sides of the hood. I gently thinned the inner sides down so that the face slides in place easily;
- glue the scabbard to the side of the leg. Since it's almost completely covered by the cloak and the left arm, superficial painting will suffice;
- the face, arms, sword blade and shield are prepped and pinned;

My main concern is about the hood, the arms, and front lower part of the coat. What is it best? To leave them out until what's behind is painted, then glue them in place and painte them? Paint them first then glue them, and finished the seams (and deal with the fear of ruining the paintjob...)?

Finally, I'm thinking about priming the model usinb black primer instead of the usual white... Is it sensible, considering the great amount of dark colours involved?

I'd really like your advice on this

Cheers,

Patrick

ps: I'll try to post updates to show progress - hopefully, it'll be finished for Euromilitaire :lol:

 

[DaveCox]

When I made mine, I painted the face/hood in place on the figure, and the insides of the lower surcoat,arms and cloak off of the body. The outside of the cloak and hood were painted after assembly. The arms can be glued in place with the sword after all other work is complete.

 

[Yarok]

°_°' you painted the face and hood in place! Wasn't it too difficult to reach and properly finish the face and inner sides of the hood?

Thanks for your comment!

Patrick

 

[jimias]

Actually when i got mine in my hands i had the same prob!So i took the easiest way for me since i paint with oils and they tend to be more endurable than acrylics when hand handled.I painted the tunic first and the hands apart then glued them.The same goes for the face which i found it impossible to paint inside the hood.The two cape parts were glued, tested for assembly to the figure and then painted apart.

 

[Figure Mad]

Hi Patrick

This is a superb figure, when I painted this beauty, there was a couple of things I noted with the figure, the face can be painted outside the hood and glued in once the two halves were glued together, I did it this way and masked the face off with blue tac to stop paint contaminating the face. The front of the surcoat was tackled by painting the inside first as you suggested, but i painted the chain mail on the figure first as well, then glued the surcoat on, the cloak parts were glued and painted on the inside then glued to the back of the figure and slightly filled before the hood was glued in place and the hood and cloak were painted on the outside last, then the weathering was done after...

I hope you have as little trouble as I did when it comes to this point, what made it for me was the fact that it fitted together so well, I hope this helps

Dave