Rick's Brets! A painting and modelling log.

[LocaLicious]

Superb paint job, great choice of colors!
The trebuchet is so awesome! And the basing just takes the whole thing to another level! rly great stuff

[Rick]

Thanks for the kind words! Very kind of you all! I much appreciate it!

I started working on the next knight. The horse is mainly done as I had thought it out in my head (except for the heraldry), but it looks a little plain to me. It may work when I put the knight on, but I'm not sure.

I'm thinking about outlining the white areas with a thin blue line, and the white areas with blue. Option two is adding a few mini fleur-de-leys in a simular way as the lining.

Here's the current state of the problem-horse



Please let me know what you think or if you have a suggestion of your own!

Rick

[LocaLicious]

Do you mean blue lines on the white side of the cloth? To be honest I think it looks great as it is.. as you say it might help to get a rider on top of it.
You hit the creamy white spot on on the "shield" piece of the cloth .. which colors are you using? Looks like bleached bone (?)
I'm working on some dwarfs atm with the color scheme, so I'm interested in some hints I've only added bleached as base color atm though, so I'm curious to see how the highlights will be.

Good stuff. Keep it up

[Toshiro]

Truly stunning, among the best I've seen actually.

[dutchwarlord]

They look fantastic!

Could you tell me how you've painted the cream cloth on the peasents?? Please??

[armos]

Woah!!! excellent painting, converting and colour management here!!! subscribed most definitly can't wait to see more

[Spjuth]

Great painting!

And thanks for sharing the creation of your catapults base, very interesting.

[Rick]

Nice treb! Whats your stone painting recipe pls?

I missed this before, sorry!

My stone recipe is: Scorched brown, codex grey, astronomican grey, skull white, all quite heavy, followed by a wash of 1 part devlan mud and 2 parts thraka green

Do you mean blue lines on the white side of the cloth? To be honest I think it looks great as it is.. as you say it might help to get a rider on top of it.
You hit the creamy white spot on on the "shield" piece of the cloth .. which colors are you using? Looks like bleached bone (?)
I'm working on some dwarfs atm with the color scheme, so I'm interested in some hints I've only added bleached as base color atm though, so I'm curious to see how the highlights will be.

Good stuff. Keep it up

I am using Ushabti Bone for the off whites, shading with Sephia and highlighting that with usabti bone, adding skull white for highlights, up to pure skull white.

Truly stunning, among the best I've seen actually.

Thank you! I am aiming for a high tabletop standard, and so far I am quite enjoying painting these (except for the horses itself, under the barding )

They look fantastic!

Could you tell me how you've painted the cream cloth on the peasents?? Please??

I primed them in white, painted a very thin very diluted layer of Ushabti Bone as a base, shaded it with Seraphim Sephia, highlighted it with Usabti Bone, Usabti Bone + White, and pure Skull White. The trick is to use the way your layers don't cover at once to your advantage. This way you can paint a slightly transparant highlight, which appears te be blended from distance. For larger surfaces such as the "shields" on the horse's barding, I paint this layer, clean my brush quickly (most of the time just putting it in my mouth, bad habit!), and smudge the edges of the layer I painted to feather it a bit. This is easy-mode blending. It works quite well I must say! I have quite gotten the hang of it when assembly line painting 20 phoenix guard (never doing that again!)

Woah!!! excellent painting, converting and colour management here!!! subscribed most definitly can't wait to see more

Thanks! It means a lot to me! I will keep you guys updated!

Great painting!

And thanks for sharing the creation of your catapults base, very interesting.

You're welcome! Over all, it's a pretty basic idea of making everything as high as two bases on top of each other. The edges of sprues are just perfect for that, but balsawood would work as well. I like sprues because of their shape. It's easier to fit models into a "sprue-square".
The only disadvantage is gamewise then people throw a pit of shades on a warmachine. A base obviously is much larger than the warmachine, making it easier to be hit by a template (read: pit of shades), which would insta-kill it. The best way is to point out at the start of the game that the model was not supplied with a base, and that the base is purely there for "cosmetic" reasons




Thanks for the replies!
I am leaving the horse as it is (for now), and am starting to work on the knight. The knight will be the standard bearer of my Realm Knights!

Rick

[grhino]

Love the colour scheme on your brets and the quality of the painting! Keep it up; I will follow this blog!

[Voodoo1]

This is an amazing plog.... The most gallant looking knights, I have ever seen. Seeing this makes me want to repaint all my Bret's to a similar scheme. Though, there is no way I could match or even come close to your painting level.

[Geld]

I love the unified color scheme, too many knightly army's fail in that department if you ask me. Great work!

[Widukind]

Great army Rick! I've recently fired up my own Bretonnians again and your models are very inspirational.

I think your 'problem horse' looks absolutely fine as it is. If you must add more detail, I would go for some fleur-de-lys though

[Anvalous]

Subscribed, sir! Very nice work!

[Il Maestro]

Fantastic log here, you are really bringing the Bretonnians to life without going for a 'senses assault' with a million colours, I love it!

As for your 'problem horse' I think I see what you mean - from the photos, it can look a little cream on one side, blue on the other. However, I think that with the heraldry and a knight on top of it it will be a fantastic mini and you'll forget what it was that you disliked about it in the first place

Keep up the awesome work!

[Col. Dash]

I dont think this is thread necro since it is a project log, is the blue simple a regal blue with a blue ink and ultramarine blue? Very very nicely done.

[Rick]

I dont think this is thread necro since it is a project log, is the blue simple a regal blue with a blue ink and ultramarine blue? Very very nicely done.

The blue is regal blue with calgar blue and altdorf guard blue highlights.

Thanks for all the kind replies and nice words. I haven't had time to paint, summer happened, and now work is being quite hard on me. I did manage to start building my Paladin for in my future grail knight unit. He is based on Valten, with the horse from the Green Knight. I still have to greenstuff the gaps and smooth out some places where I filed away twin tailed comets, but the basic model is there:




Rick

[Murdoch]

superb colours - deep and rich - love the heraldry: The basing on the treb is inspired... keep it going!

[Voodoo1]

What a perfect match for the Grail knight paladin.

And thanks for the recipe and how you did the cloth. Even explaining how you did that... it is out of my painting skills. Well done and keep it up when you can.

[Harry]

OMG .... these guys ...



are outstanding. Luv' um.

This is going to be a great looking army.

.... and great tutorial on the treb' base. Thanks.

[Elfboy]

Great stuff, always good to see more bretonnians here. Very nice job painting them. Strangely I was really drawn to your trebuchet crew, really well painted and very nice models too, you've really brought out the character of their faces.