Repainting King Arthur

Introduction

King Arthur is one of the first miniatures I ever painted, from the Shadows over Camelot board game. It was time to up the paintjob.

Before painting

I treated the miniature as having been only basecoated, which wasn't quite true. I had originally tried basic highlighting techniques on it. Well, it was a testing stage.

To prepare it for highlighting, I bathed it in black wash.

Painting the cloak

Follow the painting tip.

Basecoat:

Dark feathering:

Light feathering:

Highlights:

Painting the dragon sigil

Basecoat the raised area with gore red, leaving the black wash visible at the edges:

Highlight 80% of it with blood red:

"Edge" highlight with orange:

Painting the helmet plume

I decided to leave it red, so start the highlighting process similarly to the dragon. The miniature isn't detailed enough to pick out individual feathers, so just paint parallel lines with the detail brush.

Gore red:

Blood red:

Orange:

But take it further, to yellow:

Highlight the armor

Thick gunmetal edge highlight on all the metallic areas:

Thinner silver edge highlight:

And finally gold edge highlight on all the gold armor trims:

Final details

There is a leather belt and some shield straps, so edge highlight with leather brown:

Repainting the base

I mixed a dark grey (which somehow got blueish hues) and painted the surfaces of the rock, leaving the already washed recesses alone.

Then applied more black wash into the recesses.

Finally edge highlight with light grey.

Finished!