Hey!

So, a little late info about a quite recent miniature I painted – Knight of Dol Amroth from Forge World.

The Knight was painted with TMM (True Metal Metallic), in roughly 20-30hours. The miniature was bought during Warhammer Fest. GW’s new LOTR line is, really, one of the best series Citadel release recently. I am now waiting in honest anticipation for Hurin The Tall. 

Which hopefully will be available soon! I also considering converting him a bit – to build my own custom Aragorn.

(The photo below, has a bit better colours – as I used a grey background for it)

Anyway, I decided to buy the Knight of Dol Amroth set and see for myself, how the kit is done.

• Firstly – this is the best cast I ever received from Forge World. Absolutely flawless. Very smooth surface, like what you get in plastic.
• Secondly – I like the natural proportions of the miniature, no bigger, unnatural heads, or strange torsos.
• Thirdly – the theme of the sculpture. I am bit reluctant to Age of Sigmar concept, the over the head armours and weapons. Here you have a model, that actually wears something remotely authentic.

To sum up – I love the miniature, I love the set and it was a pleasure to paint.

For this miniature I decided to go with TMM. During Warhammer Fest I spoke with Paweł Makuch (this year Slayer Sword Winner) – you can find his profile here, as well as people from Eavy Metal team and decided to try out painting metallic. Each of them showed me their works and I was astounded how good metallics can look live.

Some time ago I was told to try out the Scale75 metallic – hence I had the paints at home (although un-opened) and was ready to have a go.

What is worth to mention about Scale75 – the paints work really well; first metallic I was actually able to glaze with. Although, in terms of gold colours – I feel, that GW Retributor Gold is better than what Scale75 offers.

Regarding the specific recipes:

Silver:

• Base: the miniature had was airbrushed with Heavy Metal by Scale75
• Highlights: used Speed Metal by Scale75, which was applied with Glaze Medium by Valleyo in a high number of glazes.
• Shades: used Cantabric Blue by Scale75, heavy diluted with Glaze Medium and water, again glazing.
• Further shades: used Nuln Black by GW, diluted a bit with Lhamian Medium to tone down the dark parts.

Blue:

• Base: Cantabric Blue by Scale75
• Highlights were done by firstly adding Mediterranaen Blue, then using pure Mediterranaen Blue and finally adding white to the mix. Everything by Scale75
• Shades were done by adding black to Base.

White:

White elements were done with Linen White by Reaper, Shades were done by adding Grey paint, lastly the deepest elements were painted by adding Cantabric Blue

Face:

This is exact same method as in Trajann Valoris:

• Base: Elf Flesh + Wild Rider Red (8:1), both by Games Workshop
• Shades: Added Chestnut Brown (by Reaper Miniatures) to the base
• Darkest shades / Glazes: shaded with Burgundy Wine (again by Reaper Miniatures)
• Highlights: added Linen White (by Reaper Miniatures) to the base
• Last highlights / Glazes: pure white

There is a couple of miniatures on my desk now, and I am still not sure, what to paint. I vary between Eisenhorn, Dark Eldar or a Tzeentch Demon prince.

We shall see : )

Cheers!