Demented Games - Launcelot [Masters Edition]

Oh dear, only 96 days to get this thing done, best get a proper session in then to progress this.

The main purpose of this project is to document the process involved in creating an entry for my first miniature painting competition.  Aside from the actual technical skill involved in painting a model, the main thing I need to get correct in my head, way before I actually put brush to model, is to understand the colours I actually want to use on it.

What follows is a idea dump of what I want to try and accomplish!*

*as I type this I have no idea if it will actually be achievable or not but that will be the “fun” part of this project

As you can see it is all very rough ideas at the moment.

I purposely left the colour wheel split between colours as I may veer between them which highlights and shadows, but the main colour palette will be

Coat & Hat = Violet/Red-Violet (almost royal purple)

Waistcoat = Orange/Yellow-Orange (browns & ochres)

Trousers & Spot colours = Blue-Green (trousers will be very desaturated)

Metals = Copper/Bronze

This is a nice steampunk model, it has everything I would come to expect from a figure representing the style…. top-hat, heavy fabric, mechanics, metalwork, leatherwork, and a waistcoat.

A bit of personal history…..

When my wife and I decided to get married we had many ideas of themes for our wedding, one of which we threw around was “steampunk”.  This turned out to be a bit too much hassle as neither we, our families, or even are friends aren’t involved in the culture and would not be able to do it justice.  In the end after a few cups of tea and coffee (and biscuits), we settled on an autumn wedding in a castle just south of Edinburgh (Scotland).  I love the colours of autumn, all the browns and oranges of nature really appeal to me, and as we were getting married in a castle I wanted my wedding suit to be something that really showed some character and history….. up step Jack Bunneys of London, with their Newbury range of tweed.

Fast forward to 2019 and I have the perfect idea of colour and pattern for the waistcoat (although I question now if this was already subconsciously decided the moment I first saw the model).

This is the suit/waistcoat combination I wore at my wedding, and a cropped shot of the waistcoat pattern, its colours, the repetition, the stitching

So now I know what I want the waistcoat to look like, I just need to understand how it is made up so I look to my most favoured piece of software….. MS Excel !

In the following images you will see how I was able to reconstruct the pattern of the waistcoat (sort of) by using photoshop to identify the RGB value of each of the 2 distinct patterns, and the separating pattern between them.

There is more work that is needed to be done here, but I will document that in the next update, but as a starting point I am happy with the progress made so far and may even start to dab some paint onto a palette to see how it looks.