Today I'll show you the Step by Step (SBS) of my last piece "Capitaine de la Garde"
The pallet of colors that I used , it
was an experiment of a brand of colors for hobby that I found in a
DIY store close to my new home, and except for the medium tone that I use for the skintone Red Leather Vallejo Model Color (VMC) that has a glossy finish, all other colors are by Rayher HobbyGmbH, that I'll call RHG.
This brand has a large range of
colors and materials.
With the " Capitaine de la Garde "
I used BastelFarbe range, a very cheap range.
But once placed on the blister and on the wetpallet, it really gave impressive results, the pigment , even when highly diluted
is compact, and there is no residue or lumps, the tone of color is bright, but the
finish is dull.
And here is the my color palette that I
used for the skintone
I numbered the main colors I used by the bottle , the others are the compounds of them that I did to achieve the
result I wanted.
1- VMC 136 Red Leather
2- RHG 576 Black
3- RHG 376 Royal Blue
4- RHG 519 Lighter Ocre
5- RHG 104 Ivory
The technique I used on the skintone is layering.
Starting by the base tone, first I gave the shadows, then the
lights, and finally I gave few of a mix of Red leather and Lighter Ocre to gain more saturation.
At the end for the final light I used the technique of wetblending with the Golden Titanium White and Open
acrilycs Medium (Matte) always by Golden always, to avoid the high gloss finishing due by the white.
For the face I added just slight color
variation with a mix Red leather VMC and Blue royal RHG and then I added the
Ivory to lighten up, I did this operation just to create a little difference between the skintone and the
face (as always taking a inspiration from Paul Bonner
and Adrian Smith)
For the fabric jacket, I decided to
choose a color that could give more contrast with the skintone,
and in any case would make a little more colorful model, and thus
avoiding the usual death tones associated with goblins and orcs.
So I
opted for a bright green..and here following palette I used
2- RHG 576 Black
6- RHG 424 Garish Green
7- RHG 278 Light Red
8- RHG 414 Lime
In this case I used a faster and rougher technique than for the skintone, to give immediately the texture effect of the fabric.
And to accentuate this effect in the most ruined points, I added a theme made by a lot of "X" with light and dark lines, using the maximum shadow and the maximum light that I had in my color palette.
For pants, I used a much more neutral
tones, starting by Beige colour.
This color gave me the chance to play
with the blue stripes theme that I wanted add to the pants.
So here's the palette:
2- RHG 576 Black
3- RHG 376 Royal Blue
5- RHG 104 Ivory
9- RHG 508 Beige
10- RHG 546 Mocha
The technique used is the same that I
used for the jacket, adding at the end the shadows of thin glazes of
diluited Mocha color.
With the same palette and technique of the pants I
colored as well moccasins and various belts, and to get the
semi-gloss finish and intense color I added few glazes with a mixture
of Pelikan yellow ink and Windsor & Newton Burnt Sienna.
The last step of this SBS is
the shield
A really nice smooth surface, on which I did a
bit of practice with check patterns, and with a little FreeHand.
The colors used are the same that I
used on the whole model, so I had not to waste color.
I had begun to experiment with the Green color on the flat surface of the shield to understand the
effect of the pigment, but I already knew that I would have painted it with a different color.
Before to start FH, I did a bit of
practice with various Ork suns on a blank paper to
figure out the size, the colors and the details.
So this is all!!
I really hope that you find out this article interesting.
Cheers
Cesare "Trevis" Trevisiol
