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Author Topic: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia... More Arthurians! (P.26)  (Read 80625 times)

Offline Driscoles

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2014, 05:00:06 AM »
I always love your Color choice. Fits perfectly and looks real.
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Offline Keith

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2014, 07:35:00 AM »
Phwooar!  :-*
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Offline Steve F

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2014, 09:05:38 AM »
The painting and photography are both so vibrant and so precise at the same time.

Offline Argonor

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2014, 09:25:31 AM »
Hmmm... now, where's my Brytenwalda rules....  lol

Stop jumping periods - you give me an itch to follow every time!

I absolutely adore those - and if you havent already, you should do a step-by-step guide to painting horses - I know you're 'just' layering, but it really works!
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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2014, 09:38:25 AM »
Thanks  :)

Captain, fantastic as usual.
Your colors are always so vibrant.
Have you ever revealed your secret?
Do you base coat white? Have you ever put up a tutorial?

There's no cunning secret I'm afraid. I paint in bold colours. I take pictures under a bright light. I use a dark brown undercoat.

There's a tutorial of sorts here: http://www.sdean-forum.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25706

Offline nervisfr

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2014, 10:43:11 AM »
The painting and photography are both so vibrant and so precise at the same time.

as you say, professional on painting and photography.   o_o
Bravo l'ami
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Offline Vanvlak

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2014, 10:48:19 AM »
Good grief, the colours are brilliant. If I could paint just the dragon banner a third as well I'd be happy  :D 8) 8) 8)

Offline Hu Rhu

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2014, 03:57:19 PM »
They looked excellent on the LPL but close up  :o :o

Offline delbruck

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2014, 04:31:56 PM »
Thank you for the link Captain. I have only been painting for 40 years, I have much to learn. One color I really have difficulty doing to my satifaction is dark red. Yours are great. Would you mind giving your formula for this?

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2014, 05:33:41 PM »
Certainly :)

My current red of choice is GW 'Evil Sunz Scarlet' (yes, really... )

I darken it with a touch of black for a base coat, and lighten it with a touch of Vallejo Deep Yellow for the highlight coat. Gradually adding yellow for the topmost highlights. Possibly even a tiny bit of white (heresy I know, because too much white just makes your red look pink).
That's what I used for the reds on these chaps. It's what I always use actually. When I find a recipe that works, I stick to it.

For a darker red, I guess just more black and less yellow :)

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2014, 06:01:43 PM »
Outstanding paintwork.   :)

Offline gamer Mac

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2014, 06:33:20 PM »
You have me looking at these figures now :-[
Lovely work :-* :-* :-*

Offline warburton

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2014, 05:37:29 AM »
Excellent figures, and especially great paintwork, and - to my mind at least - appropriate for this section of the forum.

Also, that tutorial on Steve Dean's forum has been quite useful to me in the past. I'm not a member there though, so it has taken until now to be able to thank for posting it!

I look forward to seeing more. I have many Foundry and some musketeer late Romans. Yours will be quite inspiring as I also intend to paint them in quite bold colours like these. It is often a forgotten or little known fact, as far as I know, but the Romans painted everything bright gaudy, colours; the temples buildings and statues, and togas and most likely arms and armour were not just red and cream, but painted all sorts of colours; it is just the white stonework that has survived!

Also, I have been told that Evil Sunz Scarlet is the bee's knees; I must try it sometime.

Offline Argonor

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2014, 05:51:34 AM »
It is often a forgotten or little known fact, as far as I know, but the Romans painted everything bright gaudy, colours; the temples buildings and statues, and togas and most likely arms and armour were not just red and cream, but painted all sorts of colours; it is just the white stonework that has survived!

Also, I have been told that Evil Sunz Scarlet is the bee's knees; I must try it sometime.

Just like rune stones of the Dark Age.

For bright,solid reds, also try Mephiston Red - it has many of the properties of the OOP Blood Red (but is a tiny bit deeper).

Offline Dr Mathias

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Re: Captain Blood's Twilight of Britannia...
« Reply #29 on: April 29, 2014, 06:06:54 PM »
That was a pretty stunning LPL entry, I'm glad to know there's more that might be coming along. Beautiful painting!
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