Fortune and glory, kid. Fortune and glory
Rattlecans for the Win
I primed with a rattlecan in beautiful weather in the garden.
I chose rattlecans in preference to the airbrush. Sure, the airbrush is way more fine-grained and you'll reach any little cranny, but it takes way more time and I hate clogging and cleaning and this whole mess.
Not a popular choice but a lazy one.
Anyhow, the primer quality is not that important to me as I do a thick messy wetblend anyway afterwards. But first some digital sketching. Just to avoid many fail runs while searching for a colour scheme. Although in that case the scheme was obviously aligned with the movie.
Just a messy wetblend
And that was the super unspectacular start and end. It was really in 1.5 paint sessions. But what to expect with 2.5 colors? Some brown as a ground and environment color mixed into everything and the blue for stones and light. Only the roots got a little more orange brown.
Even the little spider was kept in that color - by the way, did I ever mention it before?
Dr. Jones and the icon
Also the mini wasn't that spectacular. The movie reference dictates the colors - brown jacket, brown hat, and - of course - brown trousers.
Sounds easy but it's important to have different nuances, otherwise the mini does literally look like sh….
So, the hat was more yellow brown, the jacket had more red and the trousers beige.
Beside that the boots got black and the skin orkish green. To make the green a bit more interesting, I added desaturated pink for the lips, knuckles and ear tips. But due to the deep recesses and narrow and sharp heights it is not very prominent.
The challenge of Handwriting
The most challenging part was the title text on the wooden plinth.
First of all, a steady freehand is not my speciality and secondly the wood has some texture that makes the painting with a brush hard. It makes the paint flow quite randomly at some spots. It started with a white underpainting of the outline - first as sketch and secondly is it way easier, and takes less coats to paint the yellow over white compared to black.
I was painting for 2 days just on that text. As a twist I styled the word “Ork” the same way as the Indiana Jones logo, but green and white instead of red to yellow. It was very close to re-do that - the green and red makes stark contrast, but since the painting was so much effort it’s still on.
Final pictures
Aftermath
I scored second place and Frontier wargaming’s beautiful small painting case. That case is really Amazing - small enough to fit in suitcases and big enough to hold everything needed for a paint session. Since then it accompanied me on every vacation, show or workshop.
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