Joan of Arc Paint Log

Completed the big guy. It barely fit’s in my lightbox, sorry for the poorly cropped photos!

Time for the base.

I started with a quick preshade with an airbrush and a bone colour. I painted the flat areas brown and dry brushed with Pale Sand. I also carefully drybrushed the church and the rubble.

The church roof was given a blue glaze and I painted the cross and the bell with quick bronze NMM, using a thin layer of Nazdreg Yellow contrast as the base colour, highlighting up to a cream white.

The trident started with black primer and bone applied with an airbrush. Adding bit of rush with orange wash and stippling . Finally some scuffs on the edges with off-white.

Finally, I flocked the base and added some pigments tot he rubble and over the church.

The pigment fixer and flock sealant is drying now, I’m anxious to see how it turned out!

After this it’s a bit of tidy up and a coat of varnish to go.

I had a lot of back and forth on how to do the wings.

I started off airbrushing them with Army Painter Dark Stone, and then adding gradually more Bone (Ammo) to the mix highlighting the middles.

They looked very dull after this stage, and since all he red parts were already airbrushes and I couldn’t bother with masking, I continued working on the wings with a brush.

I stippled the larger bumps with Dark Stone, and added several brown glazes to enhance the shading. Finally I glazed everything very lightly with Night Blue Shader.

The washes left a glossy finish, which is quite ugly right now, but I think after I mat coat the whole model it will look much better.

I’m making a “hell of a return” to painting Joan of Arc: Time of Legends. With few extra days of during the holidays, I wanted to tackle a bigger model and what better than to go with the Devil himself.

There’s a fair bit of mould line scraping to do, which was a quite laborious due to the plastic and this being a pre-assembled multi-part kit — it’s very difficult to follow the mould lines as you don’t really know the components.

Few gaps also had to be filled, one below the knee and one where the tail joins to the main body. Nothing too terrible, but would have been an eyesore on the final model.

Before priming, I also added some extra stuff to the large base, bits of cork and fine modelling sand.

Using an airbrush I primed the entire model black, using Ammo One-Shot primer. Despite its name, it takes few shots to get a good coverage.

Most of the model will be devilish red, of course, which I layered on with the airbrush, using Vallejo Hull Red and Game Colour Scarlett Red.

I used Ammo Night Blue shader for the shadows. I hadn’t used the product before, so this was sort of an experiment. The pigment is not super strong (less intense than Vallejo Inks or Citadel washes), making it ideal for subtle shading.

The project is chugging along, big batch of minies got varnish today. First off, some bowmen.

Continuing my tour de projets, I painted few more things from the Joan of Arc mountain.

If you’re thinking of painting Fleur de Lis in 15mm, I highly recommend this video by master @elromanozo . I tried and failed twice until I remembered this vid from Romain.