Very Slow League of Infamy Project

The spearmen were painted in much the same ways as the archers from the previous entry, with a few tweaks.

Similar to the archers all the non-metallics were done first (except the shield emblem) then varnished with gloss then matt varnish.

Even though I had already primed the spears, I was unhappy with them and swapped them out with plastic Fire Forge games ones that I had for a Dwarf conversion project (a further insult to the Dwarves).

The reds were painted in the same way as the archer’s cloaks.  The spear staffs were painted the same as the bows and for the browns I missed out the archers brown glaze step.

There was a slight change with the way I did the faces compared to the archers.  Mainly I went dark to light rather than mid, shadow then  highlight and changed out the Dark Green Ink for German Cam. Dark Green.  I did the eyes first before the skin.

So either:

• German Cam. Dark Green (Vallejo Model Color) mixed with Dark Flesh Tone (Vallejo Game Color)
• 1st highlight: Dark Flesh Tone
• 2nd highlight: Dark Flesh Tone mixed with Tan Earth (Vallejo Model Air)

or:

• Dark Flesh Tone mixed with Elf Skin Tone (Vallejo Game Color)
• 1st highlight: Elf Skin Tone
• 2nd highlight: Elf Skin Tone mixed with Ivory (Vallejo Model Color)
• 3rd highlight: Ivory

The emblem on the shields was done using Cadmium Yellow oil paint with Gerry’s nail art technique https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/gerry-can-show-nail-art-cheat-freehanding/

I haven’t quite got the pressure right for the nail art, but it will do.  The emblems are still to dry and after that I’ll varnish them.

The metallics were:

• Black
• Gunmetal (Vallejo Model Color) with a spot of Panzer Dark Grey (Vallejo Model Air)
• Gold (Army Painter Warpaints) with a spot of Red Leather (Vallejo Model Color) on the helmet brow and crest
• Black wash (Vallejo Flames of War) in the recesses
• A mix of Sepia and Blue ink (Vallejo Game Ink) in the shadows
• Silver (Vallejo Game Color) with a spot of White to highlight the armour including the gold