Hobby Roundup. Spring Clean 2024.
Perry French Heavy Cavalry General L'Heritier.
Did a fair bit of tidy up on this Perry sculpt. The face was miscast and the hair had a casting fault. Part of the rear cuirass was missing too. I corrected these faults with modelling putty and also drilled out the reins with a wow stick. As I was going to start the figure with contrast paints as a base coat I also smoothed all the pitting out with milliput.
As this is more of a display level mini I added a lot more highlight stages across the miniature. For the coat for example I again started with two thin coats of Leviadon Blue and then highlighted with Caledor Sky, Calgar Blue, Fenrisian Grey and Blue Horror. The latter is applied extremely sparingly. All of these are GW paints.
For the gold sash and saddle cloth etc I used a NMM method . I do not personally like gold cloth etc painted with metallic metal paints as to me it reads as solid metal rather than gold wire or cloth . Sticking to a contrast theme I had a go at a recipe I came up with. Two thin coats of Nazdreg Yellow as a base coat. Highlight with Vallejo Ice Yellow. Glaze with thinned Iyanden Yellow Contrast. Shade with Snakebite Leather. Highlight with Ice Yellow and finally with Vallejo Ivory.
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