Burn'n Through the Reichbuster's Pledge
An officer and a not-so Gentleman
Latest addition is a German officer. This miniature was actually extremely difficult because such a large amount of black, which can be a hard color to paint to begin with. Boots, coat, paints, belts, hat.. all black.
there are three ways of dealing with this:
1) focus on the not-black: part of making a black miniature pop is to spend a lot of time on the other colors on the mini. The white of the gloves and lapels. The skin. The arm band. Spend a lot of time on these details and the black becomes a subtle background color.
2) start with not-black: none of this model was actually basecoated black. All the lack areas were painted in different dark greys, then washed with black washes to create the shadows and darken them. This allows you the differentiate between different blacks with the different dark greys. Some are more blue, others are browner.
3) don’t just highlight by adding white: try highlighting by adding colors other than white to the basecoat color. For some add light blues. Others add bones or beiges. This results in slightly different shades of highlights, that make the blacks appear different.
Officer front view
Officer rear view
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