Project: Empire Stirland Greatsword

Project: Empire Stirland Greatswordsman

I have a lot of Empire troops to paint as well. This first miniature is taken from a unit of Greatswords I have. all unpainted of course. Why I decided to paint this miniature, I don't know, but I really liked how he turned out. As all my upcoming empire troops, he is from Stirland making his primary colours Yellow and green.

Why Stirland colours? Before I had read anything about the Empire countries and their colour schemes, I had already painted up some plain foot soldiers with yellow and green. So when finding out that they used same colours scheme in Stirland, naturally I continued with this.

This is how he turned out:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stage 1: undercoating

I decided to undercoat the miniature with Skull White. Maybe next time I will try to undercoat with Chaos Black since a lot of this miniature is armour, which needs to be black anyways.

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------







Stage 2: base colors

  

I used the following colors as basecolors for this miniature:

Metal:    Abbadon Black
Feather:Woodland Green (later Snot Green and now: Warpstone Glow)
Yellow: Averland Sunset
Flesh:    Elf Flesh (Now: Bestigor Flesh)
Reds:    Mechrite Red (Now: Mephiston Red)
Hair:     Zandri Dust
Hat:      Snakebite Leather (Now: Balor Brown)
Pouch:  Zandri Dust
Belt:      Snakebite Leather (Now: Balor Brown)
Gold:    Balthasar Gold

All metals was then painted with Leadbelcher

  

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stage 3: shading

  

I used the following colours as shades for this miniature:

Metal:    Nuln Oil
Feather: Coelia Greenshade
Yellow: Agrax Earthshade
Flesh:    Reikland Fleshtone
Reds:    Carroburg Crimson
Hair:     Agrax Earthshade
Hat:      Agrax Earthshade
Pouch:  Agrax Earthshade
Belt:     Nuln Oil
Gold:   Reikland Fleshtone

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stage 4: Highlights

I used the following colors as highlights for this miniature:

Metal:     Ironbreaker
Feather:  Woodland Green (Now: Warpstone Glow)
Yellow:  Golden Yellow (Now: Yriel Yellow)
Flesh:     Elf Flesh (Now: Bestigor Flesh)
Reds:      Evil Sunz Scarlet
Hair:       Zandri Dust
Hat:        Snakebite Leather (Now: Balor Brown)
Pouch:   Zandri Dust
Belt:      Snakebite Leather (now: Balor Brown)
Gold:    Auric Armour

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Stage 5: Extreme Highlights, Edge Highlights

  

I used the following colors as extreme highlights and edge highlights for this miniature:

Metal:    Runefang Steel
Feather:&  Warpstone Glow with White Scar added to it
Yellow:&  Yriel Yellow with White Scar added to it
Flesh:   &  Bestigor Flesh with White Scar added to it.
Reds:    Troll Slayer Orange
Hair:    & Zandri Dust with White Scar added to it
Hat:      Zandri Dust
Pouch: &  Zandri Dust with White Scar added to it
Belt:     Zandri Dust
Gold:   Runefang Steel


I have made a youtube video of one of my painting sessions of a Stirland Greatsword. You can see it here :)