CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo

It’s been a while…almost a month, in fact, but school is done for now and I found some time to paint. Back to A Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures for this one with Walder Frey, that lovable rouge from The Twins! A big part of this mini is his chair, and I wanted to try and make it look as good as possible for that reason. I did consider painting the carved details in the Frey colours, but that would have meant painting the wood grey and I didn’t fancy that. I decided that a good, solid wooden chair would suffice and decided to start with a coat of Wyldwood Contrast over the Mechanicus Standard Grey primer. Normally that’s too dark for the contrast to work it’s magic (particularly one as strong as Wyldwood), but it gave me a nice base to work from and that was the goal rather than a one coat paint job. Over this I drybrushed some Gorthor Brown to pick out the planks, though the detail is not always too deep on this mini. After that I did some recess shading with watered down Wyldwood just to add some darker spots of old wood. After that I drybrushed with Ushabti Bone which might seem a bit stark, but was mainly to set up the final colour of a coat of Seraphim Sepia across the wood. It’s a subtle tone, but mixed with the Ushabti Bone it can add that slightly yellow tint to worn, old wood. I think it came out alright in the end.

The colour choice for Walder himself was based on the Frey colours of blue and grey, with the green shirt thrown in as just something muted for Walder to have lying around. The only really ‘rich’ colours he has is the blue trousers and red bag of NOT Lannister gold. The skin is something I’m not 100% happy with. He does look a bit like a zombie in a chair…which I consider a good thing…but the shallow detail does blur things a little bit. I also decided to try and add liver spots to the skin, but I may have gone a bit too big with them…and also a bit too stark. I did glaze over them to blend them a little better, but they are on the large side. Still, all in all I’m quite pleased with him. He’s looks like the pale, old, grumpy bastard that he is!

I’m curious if CMON will actually add some House Frey Bannermen to the neutral faction, like the Boltons. It’d be neat to see some more of the lesser houses represented here and there. But first I want to get my hands on the new Greyjoys… Too many minis and not enough pennies…

Hopefully I can upload with a bit more consistency at the moment, though I will be moving at some point soon, which could make that a bit tricky, but we’ll see. Not sure what the next project will be, yet. I still have to finish one mini for the Murder Girls Underworlds team, so maybe her? My Khorne Red is looking a little sad at the moment, though…