Jan's Judgement

Next to come under the brush was Sir Marcus the Winter Bastard, I mean Knight. Absolutely glorious models. So full of amazing detail, dynamism and character and he nearly broke me!!

Sir Marcus, in the game is a defender class and he’s a hell of a defender at that: capable of throwing up ice walls that block line of sight for the smaller creatures such as the goblin and halfling character plus he can charge and knock opponents down with his shield.

Sculpt wise he is stunning – lotta plate armour to paint and that gorgeous huge fur pelt cloak. I love painting fur -it’s a real chance to bring in lovely subtle colours and blends. Here I decided that his cloak was to be the pelt of some huge monsterous dire wolf like creature. The trick to successful fur is to blend as you go, wet-in-wet and not pick up the dry brush. With the main fur colours down and softly blended from one to the next, we use very very thinned down layers of ink wash to deepen and add stronger shadows before picking out hightlights in successive thin layers.

Sir Marcus’ was a task. Once again I wanted a very cold and wintery palette. His clothing was done in blues and blue greys and when it was coming to his armour I picked up the scale 75 metallics and using the cobalt and emerald metallics as bases blended up the tmm. It was …….. arduous. The result was great but I had to take a 2 week break from him in the middle to refresh the mojo.

Continuing with the cold tone I made sure to keep the wood of his shield cold and drained as well. The only warmth I allowed in was in some of the ochre tones on his fur cloak as here there should be a hint of warmth to convey that idea that this was the only thing keeping him from freezing to death.

The base again was done all in cold tones with snow effects, dead winter grasses and then a few dead leaves scattered about to break up the snow and complement the orange rusts on the corpses armour and Sir Marcus’ shield tying everything together.