Unknown female fighter

[Orionjp]

This is a chick that was bought when I was still in elementary school and my dad painted with testers paint. I stripped the paint and am starting over. I'm also trying to learn how this whole picture box thing is supose to work, so far not sure it helps, tell me what you guys think.

[joshuaslater]

Any markings under the base?

[Orionjp]

Its very very old and warn, I think I can make out a stylised RP kind of connected, makes me think maybe Ral Partha. The date still shows 85, so I was 3 when it came out.

[Mercius]

RP would be Ral Partha....maybe check the Ironwinds Metals siite and see if they have a reproduction of it?

["That Guy"]

I've been tearing up their site now for quite a while and haven't found that particular mini. I shall quest further.

[Inarah]

It is definitely a Ral Partha, I have one myself. It was my character for an old old Rolemaster game.... Lost Minis calls it a female cleric, but I have her in my notebook as being a Female Fighter. At the time this figure came out, in D&D clerics could not wield edged weapons and were almost universally portrayed with maces or flails. http://www.miniatures-workshop.com/lostminiswiki/index.php?title=Image:RP-FA-19.jpg

[Orionjp]

Well, meanwhile I will continue to paint her and practice on my camera skills. Still learning how to use the camera box (mine sucks) the macro feature, flash, all that goosd stuff.

[72moonglum]

Here you go, here's the link on Iron Wind's site:

 

http://ironwindmetals.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=5528

 

Good luck painting her, nice figure!

[Orionjp]

Ok, I have progressed with her, andI have gotten better with the camera. This is both practice with painting AND with taking pictures. Tell me what you guys think.

 

I know, I got something on her chin, I will fix it later.

 

FYI, not done with the leather, still working on it, I need to highlight it all. And I haven't decided if Im' giong to do NMM or metalics yet. The sword is literally a square, it doesn't have a true edge so.......

[Ferox]

Your photos are coming along very nicely indeed.

 

I like the contrast you've achieved on the green sleeves (heh, "greensleeves"; was that deliberate?), and the blue tunic's not far behind. Your blends look good, soft and smooth. When you highlight the leather, have a look at this tutorial for some ideas of how to get the right texture -- highlights are important on leather.

 

At this stage in the WIP, the figure looks a bit garish to my eye. The red-orange leather is close to a complement of both the green and the blue cloth, and since the three colours are similar in brightness, intensity, and area they're all fighting to be the dominant colour. You might consider taking the sleeves and the leggings to something like a dark grey, to give the figure a more variation in lightness (everything's pretty bright) and intensity.

 

Nice work; keep it up!

[Orionjp]

Thank you, and yes, she has become rather garish. The sleeves were intentional. To me it looked like she was wearing a tunick over a shirt, so I decided to make the sleeves a different color, and I decided on green. The sleeves were going to be a brighter color green, but I decided to mix brown with my Goblin Green to give it a less cartoony look. At this point I didn't want to change any colors, it would mean painting over or stripping, so the finished result will be, well a bit garish. I'm trying to keep her a bit more true to how my dad painted her like 16 years ago when he got her. Thanks for the advice, I'll check out that tutorial. I'm thinking of making the shield red, Mainly because I can't figure out anything else to do, unfortunately making her even MORE garish. If you have any ideas I'm open. Thanks again.

[Inarah]

If you did her boots and backpack in a dark brown, matched the shoulder epaulettes to the tunic, and maybe did her legs in a dark green I think the overall colors would be more pleasing to the eye.

[Shortbeard]

I like garish. I think you are doing a good job so keep it up. You could glaze a darker brown onto the leather areas to possibly help bring the garish down a bit. I don't know f you want to hear this but from the photos it looks like you have a pretty bad mold line on the minis left arm running from the armpit toward the hand. That may just be in the angle of the photo though.

[Orionjp]

Thank you all for the comments. I may make the boots darker, I haven't decided yet. This is a practice fig really, and to tell the truth its one of the best *technique* wise that I have ever done. When I work on better minis I'll maybe tone things down a notch or match things a bit better. Yes, that is a mold line, the photo makes it worse, but there are so many folds there its hard to clean it up without messing with the folds, so I just left it. Again haven't decided on NMM or metalics yet. I think I'm leaning more on metalics because they would make the square sword look better. This mold was sculpted 26 years ago, so the skill of swords was still being worked on. I was thinking of making her blond, but I suck at blonds, any advice? This will be my "what not to do with color combo" learning curve. So please keep them coming. I kinda suck with color combos anyway ;).

[Kormydigar]

What paints are you working with? Reaper has a nice RMS blond triad. If you don't have that, there is a trusty old technique that I use for blond hair. I start with a solid basecoat of RPP Spring Yellow (love that stuff!!). Once dry, apply multiple coats of a thin sepia wash. I like liquitex raw sienna artists ink with water and matte medium mixed in for this but a thin wash of med to light brown paint works ok too- Hawkwood if you have it. Keep the wash thin and weak and apply multiple times (letting the previous coats dry). Highlight with the base color followed by base color+white.