Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia... More Arthurians! (P.26)

[Captain Blood]

Wait until you see the archers - it's the return of the BeeGees! 

[Eric the Shed]

Gorgeous

[Too Bo Coo]

Holy crap Mate!  STUNNING!  May I ask, what's your technique for the blond hair?

[Bugsda]

Total gorgeousness 

[Captain Blood]

Thanks 

Holy crap Mate!  STUNNING!  May I ask, what's your technique for the blond hair?

It's four stage...
Stage 1: Inscribe / Palmer Prism Caramel darkened with 25% Vallejo Flat Earth
Stage 2: Go over the 'hairs' with neat Caramel, leaving the darker base shade in the recesses
Stage 3: mix 25% white into the Caramel for highlights, and overlay these
Stage 4: mix some more white in and use this final highlight mix to pick out the tips of the beard, moustache and hair, and especially any 'feature' strands of hair blowing around the face or coming down from the hairline...

If you want to blend the whole thing in a little more, you can run a very thin wash of Flat Earth (like 1% paint, 99% water) over the lot, and repeat this step as many times as you like (allowing it to dry between each wash) to subdue the brightness of the hairdo... 

I should say that (tragically) the Inscribe / Palmer prism range of 'craft acrylics' has been discontinued and is very hard to get hard of now. They had some great colours - Caramel being one of them. Any yellowy-brown colour is probably a good enough base.

[Mason]

Next time we meet up I shall let you paint my grey hairs using this recipe.
It should work well.
 

[Silent Invader]

Perhaps you could paint Nick's head while you are doing Paul's hair. 

Back OT they really are the nicest flowing locks.

[Bugsda]

I should say that (tragically) the Inscribe / Palmer prism range of 'craft acrylics' has been discontinued

  I'm still crying over that.

I've never thought of using Caramel for hair So I'm nicking that, cheers Richard  

[Too Bo Coo]

I'm still crying over that.

I've never thought of using Caramel for hair So I'm nicking that, cheers Richard 

FYI, Blick Arts in the States has them on clearance for about $1.00, so if you guys split the shipping...  But in a pinch it looks close to VMC Goldbrown, so I'll give that a go first.

[Admiral Benbow]

Great figures, brilliant painting as always!
 

[Mitch K]

Quite simply stunning work!

[Duke Donald]

These are extraordinarily well painted!  I haven't seem such amazing minis for a while.

[Twin Cities Gamer]

Magnificent, and thanks for the link to the tutorial!  If I were the Brits, I'd throw in the towel to these lovely invaders.  I mean, look at the teeth on the one fellow.  Perfect!

[Too Bo Coo]

Thanks 

It's four stage...
Stage 1: Inscribe / Palmer Prism Caramel darkened with 25% Vallejo Flat Earth
Stage 2: Go over the 'hairs' with neat Caramel, leaving the darker base shade in the recesses
Stage 3: mix 25% white into the Caramel for highlights, and overlay these
Stage 4: mix some more white in and use this final highlight mix to pick out the tips of the beard, moustache and hair, and especially any 'feature' strands of hair blowing around the face or coming down from the hairline...

If you want to blend the whole thing in a little more, you can run a very thin wash of Flat Earth (like 1% paint, 99% water) over the lot, and repeat this step as many times as you like (allowing it to dry between each wash) to subdue the brightness of the hairdo... 

I should say that (tragically) the Inscribe / Palmer prism range of 'craft acrylics' has been discontinued and is very hard to get hard of now. They had some great colours - Caramel being one of them. Any yellowy-brown colour is probably a good enough base.

Thanks Capt!

[Captain Blood]

Thanks friends, for the positive feedback 

Should have quite a few more figures finished over the next few days... First up, the first of my bow armed levies...

Musketeer Miniatures only have one early Saxon bow armed pack, so I thought I'd have a go at supplementing them with some plastics.

The figure pulling his arrow from the quiver is a Musketeer metal figure.
The other two are plastic Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors, with Perry longbow arms and a generous application of Green Stuff hair - to bring them to the same level of hairiness as the Musketeer metals...

Unfortunately, I think I might have overdone the coiffure a bit, and they now resemble the Bee Gees... Or Benny and Bjorn from Abba