En el primer articulo se centraba más en las figuras de los Lannister, hoy también le toca el turno a los soldados Stark.
Se trata de una guía interesante, para los que nunca hayan pintado pues expone unas primeras nociones básicas a tener en cuenta.
Last week, miniatures painter Giles Dorrington took us through the starting steps in painting your Battles of Westeros figures. Today, we’re pleased to present the informative conclusion:
Step 3: Painting the Main Areas
Now it's time to add the main blocks of colour; cloaks, shields, surcoats and the like. The basic idea here is using a size 1 brush, to paint the item a base colour, but leave a little of the black showing around the edge to help it stand out. Then just add a lighter highlight colour on any raised areas, such as folds in cloth, which would naturally catch the light.
The cloak on this War Host of the North (below) is a good example of what I'm talking about. Here I've used #502 Field Drab for the base colour, and highlighted it with #222 Horse-tone Roan. The fur trim was done with #236 Horse-tone Grey and #526 Tank Light Grey.
The only reason I've used different colours for the highlights is because I had them to hand and it saved mixing up a highlight colour. However, if you don't want to go to the extra expense of buying highlight colours the same effect can be achieved just by taking your base colour and mixing a little white with it (as with dry-brushing, if you're an inexperienced painter it's worth spending a couple of minutes practising on a cheap figure).
Step 4: Details and Bases
I haven't tried to paint every conceivable detail but just picked out a few of the main ones, like belt buckles, boots, gloves, and beards, using a size 0 brush. Where I did spend a few extra minutes was on the leaders, such as Gregor Clegane's surcoat and Addam Marbrands's shield, but whether you want to go to those lengths is entirely up to you.
The last area I paint is normally the base and this is just done using #230 Cammo Green as a base colour, with #125 Putrid Green dry-brushed on to add highlights.
Step 5: Dipping and Varnishing
The last stage of the painting process is what's called a 'dip'. This is done by applying a polyurethane wood-stain (available from any hardware store: Minwax Polyshades is a well known brand in the US). This comes in various shades; walnut is what I've used on my Westeros miniatures. The reason for applying a wood stain is twofold. Firstly, it pools in the recesses and crevices and gives an extra level of shading (you can see this especially well on the bases of the Stark leaders).
The reason this technique is called the 'dip' is that when miniature painters first started using it they used to just dip the whole figure in the tin of wood-stain and then shake off the excess. However, I've found that you get much better (and less messy) results by just painting it on with a large, e.g. size 4, brush. The only problem with wood stain is that it can start to pool in unwanted areas, like at the bottom of shields. To alleviate this problem I just dry the brush off a little on a piece of kitchen tissue, and then use the brush to soak up some of the wood stain in the problem area while it's still wet.
A Final Word
You've probably noticed that the shields on my Lannister troops and some of the leaders have various emblems on them. This was done by using decals, originally available from Hobby Products GmbH. Sadly these are no longer available, however other manufacturers (for instance I know of Veni Vidi Vici Decals and Little Big Men Studios here in the UK) produce shield decals for 15mm miniatures which should work equally well.
Anyway, thanks for sticking with me and I hope that some of you have found this article useful and will be persuaded to try your hand at painting miniatures, if you haven't already.
Finally here's a list of the Cote D'Arms Paints I used and what they were used for:
| Armour | 232 Bronze (dry-brushed) |
| Buckles, Sword Hilts, etc. | 232 Bronze (paint on) |
| Weapons | 109 Chainmail |
| - highlight | 106 Enchanted Silver |
| Stark Cloaks | 502 Field Drab |
| - highlight & hounds | 222 Horse-tone Roan |
| Stark Trim and surcoat | 236 Horse-tone Grey |
| - highlight and leash on hounds | 526 Tank Light Grey |
| Lannister shields, cloaks, and surcoats | 129 Vampire Red (highlight with white) |
| Lannister gold/ yellow trim | 229 Dark Sand (highlight with white) |
| Faces | 506 Desert Sand |
| - highlight | 213 Flesh |
| Hair | 235 Horse-tone Brown |
| Wood | 501 British Khaki |
| Straps and Belts | 519 Chocolate Brown |
| Leather (boots, gloves, and quivers) | 524 Tan Earth |
| Bases | 230 Camouflage Green |
| - highlight | 125 Putrid Green |
| Robb Stark's Wolf | 504 Panzer Grey |
| - highlight | 533 Slate Grey |
| Fletching on arrows and mixing highlights | 101 White |
| Horses |
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