Templar Knight Finished

Yesterday I painted the last details on the figure. I finished the surcoat, axe and spear and did some weathering of the figure. Also some blood stains were added. I still see several points for improvement but I will leave it like this for the moment. I changed my photo setup, and the initial photo's were a bit too light so I had to decreased the brightness. Hopefully with a bit of more practice and adjustmens I will be able to make better pictures in the future. Here than the photo of the figure.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Almost finished

I'm very busy lately but I could find a bit of time to continue painting this figure. I added the red cross on the chest of the figure. And the front side is now finished, I only have to add some weathering on the surcoat and chain mail. The surcoat on the backside still needs a bit more work. The shield is added to the back of the figure and painted in a slightly different white mixture with a black stripe on top to preventing a monotone look. I was working on the white part when my oldest pulled me away from my painting stuff to play with his trains. So the last things I have to do before finishing this figure is adding some more slash marks and weather the shield. Finish the gloves, spear and axe and the ground work on the sides were the paint is gone now because of touching the base.

Cheers,

Marcel.

Templar Knight update

I painted some more parts of this figure and I will try to get it finished first now. Afterwards I will continue the work on several sculpts that are on my workbench. Doing both at the same time doesn't work for me at the moment. I finished the sword and did some additional work on the belts also. For the gloves I chose a bit darker color to prevent a monotone figure, still a few things to correct. And I started with the base work adding some grass and soil. The next steps will be the metals shield and the red crosses.

Cheers,

Marcel.

Working on the surcoat

The last few days I was working on the surcoat of the figure. Adding deeper shadows and blending all the transitions. Well it doesn't show that much on the pictures. But anyway the frontside is now more or less finished the backside still needs some more blending work. Furthermore I added some shadows to the helmet and the next step is to add the highlights. The shield and sword are primed and ready to be painted also.
Here are the pictures!

Cheers,
Marcel.

The face done!

After almost half a year I started working on this figure again. I wasn't satisfied with the face colors and changed the color mixture adding more red and I blended all the transitions. The helmet received the base metal color and now some shades have to be added. Furthermore I worked on the belts and finished the protection flap around the neck. Next step is to weather the chainmail and helmet and continue with the surcoat.

Marcel.

Update Templar Knight

I went a week on vacation and took this figure and a few bottles of paint with me. And started painting the white surecoat. This time I was aiming for a bit different color than I had done in the other figures before. For the base a mixture of white, green and brown were used. Highlights done with more off-white and shadows with more brown and black. Most of the blending is done on the front of the figure, the back still needs some additional blending. Next steps will be finishing the white surcoat, face and chainmail.

Marcel.

A little update on the Templar Knight

I have made a little progress on the knight. The left side of the face (viewer right) is blended. The right eye still needs to be corrected and I have to blend the right side. Also I did some additional work on the chain mail. I applied more shadows with black and smoke and toned down the excessive highlights.

Cheers,
Marcel.

Templar first brush strokes

Here are some pictures of the first brush strokes on the Templar Knight.
The rough shadows and highlights are painted on the face. Now all the layers have to be blended. And also the eyes need to be corrected.

Marcel.

Templar Knight 1150

This is one of my next projects I will start painting very soon.
The sculpture is made by my friend Steve Readdie and I'm going to paint it as a Templar Knight 1150, white clothing with a red cross. Here are some pictures of the sculpture.

Marcel.