Tutorial
How to
paint the Darkelf Rider of Freebooter Miniatures
by Holger Schmidt
Part 11
The Finish
After
the complete painting of the two parts I only had to place the rider on the
lizard and work on the base. To glue the darkelf onto the lizard I figured
out where exactly I wanted him to sit and scraped the color from the back
of the mount. Glued directly to the metal of the lizard the complete modell
will be much more sturdy.
The base of the Freebooter Miniatures are usually sculpted with some details,
here I found some stones and bones which I painted with some brown and grey
color tones.
If you want to use the miniature for gameplay you should finish it with a
dull to avoid damage to the painting. If it is only for a showcase I usually
decide to leave out the varnish because it looks more natural.
Pictures of the finished miniature can be seen here.
To fix the rider I scraped the color off the back:
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