"Spartan Warrior in 40mm" Topic

Hi all,

In the last few days I painted some Miniatures and Eras I have not done before, which was a nice change though.

Here is the first. This miniature is suppose to depict an ancient Spartan Warrior in 40mm. I am not so sure about the manufacturer as the Name on the bottom of the base was barely legible. I could only make out E…Casting (?) It is a nice sculpt and was so much easier to paint then the usual 28mm miniatures. I might go back and tackle some larger scale models in the near future.

Please click on the link to see more pictures: http://www.sascha-herm.com/Spartan01.htm

I used Andrea's Red Paint set for the Cloak as it is a nice deep and little darker red as the one I wanted to use for the short Tunic or rather "Chiton" for which I used Reaper's Blood Red Triad with additional Highlighting using Reaper's Fire Red Triad.

I also wanted to try to recreate a different skin colour for the Spartan and used Foundry's Mediterranean Flesh Triad to give the figure a more tanned or olive looking complexion. I used GW Bestial Brown & Dark Flesh to deepen the shadows a little.

For the Cuirass, Helmet and other metal parts, I started with Basecolour of GW Balthasar Gold, followed by GW Gehennas Gold. As I found the result still a bit too dark I also used Foundry's Burning Gold B to drybrush all parts lightly and carefully. I added a final highlight with Andrea's Base Gold from the Gold Paint set as it is just slightly lighter than the Burning Gold one which provides a great transitition on the metal parts.

I hope you like him. All comments are very welcome.

With kind regards

Sascha

Very, very excellent!!!

That is…a work of art! Fabulous job there!

Excellent, I do like the flesh tones on this figure.

Superb work – armour and red tones particularly well done.

May use him as a guide for a 28mm command figure on the painting tray.

Great looking figure!

Fantastic!