Lovely warlord from Heresy Miniatures (https://heresyminiatures.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=127&products_id=208), although the sculpt is originally from Spyglass before they closed down 15(?) years ago. I wonder what that Steve Buddle fellow ever did after that ...
My goal here was quite a cool feel, perhaps a little sicky or evil, but set it in quite a nice forest environment.
- Skin. Dark Sea Blue, highlighted with Sunny Skintone and Greenish White. Deepest shadows are Dark Sea Blue and a little Black.
- Cloth. Violet Red, highlighted with Sunny Skintone. Shadows are Violet Red and a little Dark Sea Blue and Black. Stripes on the leg are just Greenish White with a touch of the Violet so it's not too stark.
- Leather. Just a Leather Brown with some Sunny Skintone added for edge highlights. Very simple.
- Metallics. Dark Sea Blue (spotting a theme?) highlighted with Greenish White. There's a little of the Violet Red in the shadows on either reflection points i.e. next to the cloak.
- Rust. Stippled with Martian Orange, then more stippling with Ochre but in a smaller area. I used the same colours on the torc around his waist, but added Greenish White to push the final highlights.
I wanted to paint a more sickly skintone to contrast with a warmer environment, but perhaps the armour and weapons should have been warmer to boost that contrast further. Overall, quite a unified scheme with a lot of the same colours used. With hindsight, I'd add more variety here, such as repainting a darker loincloth, but I don't want to spend time revisiting projects and overthinking it.
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