CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
"A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse."
Next model I’m working on is Vargo Hoat from A Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures Game by CMON. To begin with I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do with this mini before I realised he had quite a lovely cloak (that probably didn’t come from Essos). Vargo is one of those characters that everyone dislikes, even the fictional people within the books (I don’t think he made it into the TV series…), but he does switch sides at one point from the Lannisters to Roose Bolton and I though a turncloak with a nice cloak was too good an opportunity to pass up.
The outside of the cloak is in Lannister red, but the facings and the lining of his cloak is in the Bolton colours of a reddish pink colours. There’s not as much contrast between these colours as there would be between the red and the white of the Starks, but I like this subtle look a little more. That being said, it looks a little more interesting than everything being a dark shade of brown and/or black particularly bearing in mind that much of his armour is studded leather.
In a move I've not really tried before, I chose a base colour and shade for the entire cloak that didn't really match the end colours. Here I used a deep purple (Xereus Purple from GW) and then shaded it with a purple shade (Druchii Violet from GW). This I used as a base for both colours as an almost pre-shade colour that is almost completely layered over, though using thinned paints.
The pink colour on the lining was done with Screamer Pink and Pink Horror from GW using thin layers of Screamer Pink to cover all but the deepest recesses of the purple base colour before grading up to Pink Horror before picking out some edges with Cadian Fleshtone (GW).
The red used a similar pattern of Mephiston Red to Evil Sunz Scarlet to a final highlight of Wild Rider Red (all GW) with the Wild Rider Red focusing on just the sharpest point so as to not turn the look too orange.
And the traditional Lloyd shot. Really pleased with how the cloak turned out. The lighting is a bit wierd on this pictures as it seems to blur out some of the deep folds, but hopefully once he's all finished up that won't be an issue in the final pictures.The real downside with being this happy about the cloak is that I’m a bit afraid to paint anything else in case I spill onto it and ruin it… Ah well. The show goes on. Timing wise this did take a fair bit of time with all of the thin layers and such, but in total and counting drying time for the shades I got this done in about 2 hours. The longer you take here, the smoother your transitions will be, but if you do find some things looking a little stark once you’re done a nice glaze of either red or pink should sort that out nicely.
Happy hobby everyone.
*EDIT* I tweaked the brightness on the pictures a little to make the colours look a little better…they were just too bright.
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