The bust kit from Young Miniatures was washed and scrubbed in soapy luke warm water and then spray painted black and dry brushed pure white to show the features. Then glazed with skin tones, burnt sienna and sepia tones as well as Vermilion to get the basic broad strokes up. The beard is painted black and stroked with white and grey. Eyes are duly painted whites and tone with vermilion wash. Pupils are painted black, light blue, royal blue iris. This forms the broad strokes base coat of a face.
The turban and the cloak are painted very much the same way. Black, drybrushed white, then glazed with greens and washed with black again to form the base tones.
Same goes for the body, the chain mails, the whites, the reds etc. The reds are highlighted with shades of red toned with a little orange just for making the contrasts.
The the Skins have darker tones augmented with burnt sienna, vermilion washed to make it warm, and lighter shades of sunny skin tones and whites are added to increase the 3D effect.
Then the skines are further blended to get the 3D effect of a white man having spent years in the sun in the taking of Palestine.
The next challenge is the shield. Richard the Lionheart has an ensign that is very complex for someone who lived almost 1000 years ago.
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I bought some Wave decal sheets and some from Art Friend, both stated that its for Laser. Unfortunately, the wave decal sheets cannot be printed and what came out were only the outlines for the 3 lions. What I did was at best to get the silhouette going and fill in the details by brush painting.
Hand painting the lions are a real challenge. The colours needed about 7 layers to form a solid film like tone. Fortunately, I coated the shield with Vallejo white, abotu 7 layers deep, that helped. I put in 3 tones of yellow to give the lions a closer resemblance to the artwork. Then hand painted in the blue claws, blue tongues, the black eyes. Then the surrounding areas are coated in red, some 9 coats of it. The rivets are highlighted and washed with sepia ink, so was the edges. The edge of the shield was painted gun metal and then highlighted with silver pencil as well as sepia ink and buff washes to get it to look dirty and worn steel.
The rear of the shield is the same affair as the face. Its first painted black, then drybrushed with white and then coated with various strokes of Buff, Yellow Ochre, Sienna, Red Browns and Flesh. Then the whole wooden section is washed with Vallejo Sepia Tone that was thinned down to get the details to come up as well as to increase the contrasts.
Leather is black, stroked over with various tones of sand, beige and red brown colours till I get the tones I likes. The bolts are then painted and highlighted and the edges and shadows are augmented with black to ge the final finish that I liked.
