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The Matriarch of the Starks is now done. There’s only one of them left from the starter box now, but more on that in the future. Again, many of the colours used here have been repeated, so I’m going to cover some of the details that are fairly unique to this mini.

As I mentioned before, I wanted to show both the Stark and Tully colours on Catelyn and I must say I find the results striking and, more importantly for me, colourful! The main goal was to imitate the Tully colours shown in the TV series (which do sort of appear on the shields of some of the Tully Sworn Shield) as the mini just seemed to be perfect for that.

Staring with the blue on the lower part of the dress, I started with a base of Macragge Blue. I did think of going with Kantor, but I really wanted to try and have a brighter colour to compare with the white of the cloak. After that I all over shaded with Nuln Oil then reapplied Macragge Blue to the upper areas. You could recess shade and skip the second coat, but I find it simpler this way. After that there was just an edge highlight of Calgar Blue. You could go further with some highlights of Fenrisian Grey on top, but I liked how it was already and didn’t want to risk messing it up. Also, ignore other random parts of the mini getting bits of colour on it; I painted other bits while paint dried. 😛

The red is my, now standard, red that was described in the Tyrion post, but I just love the tone so much that I decided to show it off here as it is part of the Tully colours. In all honesty, this is a better suited colour for the ‘mud red’ of the Tullys are that the brighter red of the Lannisters…but I like the colour…so there! Just a simple Khorne Red/Agrax Earthshade/Wazdakka Red sequence in the same vein as Tyrion. I do plan on trying to add this colour as a spot colour somewhere on Sansa to tie her into the Lannisters; she is married to Tyrion, after all.

After that the other details could be added. The hair and white cloak were done the same way as Robb’s hair and tabbard, respectably, and the silver was a very simple Leadbelcher base, Nuln Oil shade and Stormhost Silver highlight. I chose silver very deliberately to add to the image of the Tully shield above, and I think it actually works quite well, I think. I went for a dark fur trim to help add some contrast to the white cloak, and that was that. Catelyn Stark was ready!

And that’s all she wrote. I’m hoping that my next project will be something a little different, but we’ll have to see if the postman brings me what I need for the project. Fingers crossed, though!