CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo
'The wolfswood is full of danger; your last ride should have taught you that.'
Another mini down! Today is a Stark Outrider from CMON’s A Song of Ice and Fire Miniatures Game. Typing that out I can see why people use acronyms for things… Anyhoo, I made one modification to this chaps which was to remove the sculpted Direwolf from the shield so I could replace it with the fist emblem here so I could paint the chap up as a Glover. Technically I should paint the white portions of the decal in silver, but for now I’m leaving it as it is. This is also why the tabbard is scarlet. I like mixing it up and bit, and a medieval-based setting like this is a great opportunity to add heraldry in here and there. I like heraldic things.
As a small note, I had to mess about with the brightness to try and match the colour it ACTUALLY looks in person, but the lighting in my flat is terrible… I tried…
Beyond the heraldic colours, I tried to keep things a little more dour for the Northmen without resorting to blacks and browns on everything. While there are knights in the North, they are not that big on the whole idea, and even when they do get knighted they are usually not as affluent as the Southerners.
I went for the same colour pallette for the banner as I did with my Sworn Sword banner bearer because that's a good way of tying everyone together even when I go a little off-piste with the colours dotted around the force. Each tray of infantry will be tied together as an army by the flag if nothing else...minus the Umbers...but I'm pretending that I'm making sense here.
I also went for a bit of bling on the banner points just because they were looking a little too drab for a possible Ser. Went for a darker gold that is likely just a bronze or copper (though not really orange enough for pure copper and copper would make a terrible point). It's a nice spot colour, I think.
And the Lloyd shot! If you look carefully there is also the dreaded 'foot on rock', as well!No immediate plans for what’s coming next, but we’ll see what I have time for; school is getting a bit busy at the moment with it being midterm season… Happy Hobby, everyone!
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