Veni, Vidi, Vici

This another fantastic 75mm figure from Scale 75. This was my second attempt at painting outside of Warhammer. This model looks like he is been chased by the enemy in some remote forest so, like the one on the box, i decided to bloody him a bit. 


Colour wise he was easy to do. The chainmail was done by drybrushing the metallic colour (chainmail it's called from the Citadel range) over a black undercoat. 


The leather straps were painted individually with a dark brown and the other metallic bits were done by painting bronze, then wash with brown ink and then drybrushed lightly with bronze again. 

The cloak was done in the same way as the crusader. Brown was drybrushed in successive stages over black undercoat, then white added to the brown for the highlights ( i.e. the raised areas). Once that was done the dirty, worn look on the bottom part of the cloak was drybrushed with bleached bone colour. 

Here is the wound on his head. done with a bit of black mixed with red gore ( red alone doesn't look realistic). For a wet effect a bit of gloss varnish did the trick.

The forest ground was done with paper mache. Brown was painted allover, then washed with brown ink, then given another pass with brown paint. For raised areas a little light brown was added to the original dark brown. Some static grass randomly scattered and finally some maple leaves to finish it off. Khaki was then drybrushed on the trousers, especially the knees, to create the effect of him having knelt whilst hiding plus for that realistic worn look.

Here is the figure finished and on his base.