While I need to put more time into my Green Knight redo, for Ann’s January Challenge, I did manage to base coat the dominate feature on this 1/35 scale figure – the long trench coat!
I decided to try my hand at airbrushing very light coats onto the miniature, but didn’t trust myself to not get the face, neckerchief, and hat involved, thus the bee-keeper look for the Feild Marshall! Several historical sites have noted that Rommel’s famous tester trench coat was actually a dark brown leather, not a black leather coat. That and the fact that aging leather would provide a more interesting figure than all that black, I opted to go with a chocolate brown base coat. after priming in light grey, I did some outlining in pure black, which can been seen below, and it is still there under the 4 light layers of paint above!
Still got a way to go, but the trench coat base-coating did scratch an air-brush itch this morning!
And now to continue the Lone Ranger hyperbole, a quick update on the repainting of the GW Green Knight and his mount:
Oooh your Green Knight is green too 😂. Looking good mate, I totally forgot that his shield had the green man on it.
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Who would have guessed he would be green? I tinkered with ivory and green trim, but it didn’t work with the horse, so I went back to shades of green and yellows
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Without reading any text I decided it was either Erwin Rommel or Red Skull! 😉
GK coming along very nicely!
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You know, I never thought of Rommel as the bases for Red Skull, but … at least the look and brazen attitude!
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Just look at the body language – especially in the head-covered sculpt image up top 🙂
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Yeah I see that. For me he reminded me of the Malifaux Death Marshals, with their flaming heads and long western dusters!
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