Tutorial

How to paint the Darkelf Rider of Freebooter Miniatures
by Holger Schmidt

Part 3

When I first saw the miniature I imagined it wearing heavy lether and so I used a lot of different brown tones for the clothes. My goal was to make it look harmonious but also to define the different parts of the clothes. For the cloak I used Raw Umber and added Naples Yellow Deep for the highlights. For the throuser and the rest of the clothes I mixed a brown tone out of Leaf Green and Cadmium Scarlet. For the rest of the leather parts of the miniature I mixed Opaque Oxide of Chromium with Cadmium Scarlet. I mixed Naples Yellow Deep and White into those tones for the highlights.
The wooden parts of the miniature were painted different to the above. I primed it with a light brown tone (Raw Sienna) and painted it darker with a couple of glazes of thinned Vandyke Brown.

Mixing the different brown colors:

Painting the cloak using Raw Umber mixed with Naples Yellow Deep for the highlights in six steps:

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