Catelyn Stark

Hello folks,

Catelyn Stark from Darksword Miniatures is finally finished. She is my last entry (the 3rd one) for the Wamp Darksword challenge.

This time I tried to achieve some kind of silk effect on her dress. Really like how the limited palette of colors used worked in the end.

Putty&Paint

CMON

keep on happy painting,

Nathelis

Catelyn Stark, final week

Hi folks,

I realised today that on friday this week there is the deadline for Darksword contest over at Wamp. Tough luck for me, I still need to finish my last entry for it (my 3rd one). This means: painting, painting, painting...

Made some good progress on the sleeves of her dress, but many areas remain unfinished. Lucky for me, her base is already finished so if I concentrate I should be able to finish her till friday.

keep on happy painting,

Nathelis

Catelyn Stark - Base almost finished

Hi folks,

this time i´m back with an update for the base of my Catelyn Stark from Darksword.

I received a huge package from Polak Models with incredible detailed miniature grass and foliage. So I had to try them out on the base.

Next step will be to paint the miniature, but soo many projects are waiting here, can't say which I´m going to finish first.

keep on always paintin,

Nathelis

Cat Stark base wip: Painting a stone wall

Hi folks,

yesterday I painted the stone wall of Catelyns base. took some hours but i´m really satisfied how it turned out.

 This is the palette (VMC) I used:

The trick in my opinion is a first lightness sketch of the wall, so that you have a zenithal light source (can be done via wet in wet sketch or AB) and then apply very thin layers of glazes to the single stones in different colors. So you get a natural variety of stone colors. This is how it looked after that steps:

After that every single stone needs to be shaded down (according to his position on the wall, so upper stones least) and then pure white can be used for highlights. To darken the recesses between the stones I used a black wash I applied carefully only to the areas where needed.

this is a time consuming work, but well worth it in the end!

Nathelis

Catelyn Stark with Base wip

Hi folks,

today I was doing my favourite part about miniature painting: base building. Actually there wasn't a lot to do, since I found a good stone wall that i recently bought from Figone. It fits the mood and style of this miniature perfectly + also really nice the 28mm true scale. So this is the first impression of the miniature and the base together (both with just some color sketches). Now the real work (fun) begins!

keep on happy painting,

Nathelis

Catelyn Stark 1. WIP

Hi folks,

I have started to paint a new Darksword Miniature, alltogether there are now 5 hours of work into it and I´m not even done with the skin (yes, I paint slow).

Color recipe for the skintones (all VMC):

Shadows: Mahagoni Brown, Royal Purple, Rose Brown

Midtone: BeigeRed/Iraqui Sand (50/50)
Highlight1: Light Flesh/Beige Red (50/50)
Highlight2: Light Flesh
Highlight3: Ivory

hope you find that useful!

Nathelis