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Lyonesse, Bretonian Battle Banner (Golden Demon Slayer Sword Germany 2000) |
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| This is
without doubt the model I put the most painting time into
ever. She was painted in 2000 for the german Golden Demon
competition. I won first place Fantasy Miniatures in 1999
with the mercenary captain you can see elsewhere on this
webpage and I wanted to do something special for the next
competition. One of the most difficult tasks for
competition painting is to decide which model you paint.
The common oppinon on this topic is to paint a model you
realy like and I can just second that. On the other hand
a spectacular special character always draws more
attention than an ordinary goblin. I always like this model since it was released years ago and the original paintjob as shown in White Dwarf always impressed me a lot. I still think it is one of the most characterfull miniatures GW has ever released and I always wondered why it is rarely to see in any painting competitions. |
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Luckily I had this model in one of boxes, so I took it out and thought what to do with it. My basic idea was to paint her as she comes, without any conversions or changes to the original sculpt, in a classis yellow/ blue coloursheme. Using an already given coloursheme like this (its nearly the same one as in WD) is alway an easy solution but not realy innovative. After painting the first colours I was dissatisfied with the result and she went into acetone. Next I went to a blue red sheme with the same result. One of the most difficult areas were the lions that are originally sculpted on the barding of the horse. They are not realy well done and I never managed them in a way they looked good, in fact they always turned out rather crappy. So after painting her in several different colourshemes and painting the lions again and again I decided to remove them from the barding and to paint on something else. |
I used a
dremel and sanding paper for this task. As a result of
this procedure the barding ended realy rough, with lots
of small holes and a highly unregular surface. The next
step was to smoothen it up with green stuff. Whilest I
did this I also made some minor changes on the barding
and horse. As it originally is rather short I made it a
bit longer, changed the reins to look a bit more
interesting and added a saddle to the horse. All this
resulted in a quite massive horse whilst the sculpt of
the rider is rather small, so I also added to cloak to
give her some more volume to avoid her looking lost on
the huge horse. |
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Now I had her ready for painting and had
to come up with an idea for a working colour sheme. I
looked to all the background material I found in my books
on medival heraldry and such things as well as WDs and so
on and decided to postpone this decition to a later date.
All I knew was I wanted something with red, so I started to paint the barding in this colour and left her standing on my desk for some days until I had the idea just to paint some geometrical patterns with yellow on it. After some experiments I came to paint the ornaments you now see on the model. To paint them I started with a dark yellow brown and painted the ornaments in reverse by adding yellow ocre, yellow and white to the original mixture. I think I did about 4-6 layers until I reached pure white for the final highlights. The white mussels had been added to fill the space under the yellow ornaments and are regular heraldic patterns like the better known lilies. |
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| All metal parts are painted in a slightly blueish white to represend a white armour. I never intended NMM on this model. The cold white of the armour gives a nice contrast to the warm red yellow sheme of the rest of the miniature. Most of the remaining parts of the model are painted with dark blue and browns for the horse. I kept the base simple to avoid it to distract from the model but to add to it. | |
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