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I wasn't at all happy with my first attempt at painting the armour of my female Lord / Paladin. Even though I wanted her armour to look used and worn, by using entirely a dry-brushing technique, the final result looked grainy and overall pretty bad, due to two main reasons:
1. The surface of the metal casting was very rough, and so my dry-brushing technique showed up every pit and flaw.
2. I used too thick a mix of paint with which to dry-brush the metal finish.
So I resorted to some drastic action. Firstly, I stripped all the paint off the miniature using brush restorer, after which I washed the miniature thoroughly with warm soapy water, and scrubbed off any remaining paint with an old toothbrush and an old dental flossing mini-brush for the difficult recesses.
I then added a couple of drops of Acrylic Flow Improver to a 3 parts water : one part paint mix, and applied very thin layers of paint, allowing each application to dry thoroughly before applying the next layer of paint. I used this mix for all the successive layers of paint.
I started with a base coat of Chaos Black, followed by several very thin coats of Chainmail, after which I applied a thin wash of Black Ink. Then I repainted the armour with another thin layer of Chainmail, leaving all the recesses and inner edges of the armour Black. Then, I dry-bushed a very thin application of Mithril Silver along the edges and high points of the armour and sword.
I painted the Cowters (elbow protectors) and Poleyns (knee protectors) and the sword Quillons (hand guard) and Pommel with a thin application of Shining Gold, followed by a thin wash of Chestnut Ink, after which I painted another thin layer of Shining Gold, without over-painting the Chestnut Ink in the recesses. I then dry-brushed a very thin coat of Burnished Gold along the edges and high points of the Cowters, Poleyns and sword, followed by an even thinner coat of Mithril Silver mixed with Burnished Gold, again dry-brushed along the edges and high points.
The hair and face are all painted with the same ratio of Acrylic Flow Improver, water and paint, and using a combination of layering and blending.
I’m really pleased with the finished results (compare these with the first version of Princess Bellefleur in Action). I’m also pleased with the photographs I managed to produce of the finished miniature.
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