"A Knight of Saint George" - John Brown Bust

The “Knights of Saint-George”,

said to be to oldest club in London,

is composed exclusively of retired soldiers

who share a belief in traditional definitions

of valor and an extreme loyalty to the crown.

Welcome back, gentles all, to another Friday on The Art of Caesura!

After a break of a couple weeks, while we reveled in blog birthday festivities, we're back with the last few models from The World of Smog: On Her Majesty's Service. And today, we're looking at John Brown.

I mentioned, when I was talking about Parvin a few weeks ago, that painting the busts of the heroes in this game provides another fun challenge; I'm trying to match their paint schemes to the full-body ones that I've previously posted.

Painting John Brown's bust was much easier than his full body sculpt was for one main reason: tartan (or lack thereof)! His bust doesn't display any of the tartan bits (bagpipe and kilt) that were on his full-body mini.

It does have a lot of other nice details though: the pipe, the pocket-watch chain, and the Unicorn Club broach/hat pin (that all of the heroes of this game have hidden on them somewhere).

For the green of his jacket, vest, tie and hat ribbon, it was a mix of Warboss Green and Steel Legion Drab with an initial wash of Agrax Earthshade. His shirt is Ushabti and Agrax.

I gave his skin a ruddier complexion than last time, leaning heavily on Scale 75's Pink Flesh, with Reikland Fleshshade wash and highlighted by mixing in some Basic Flesh (I put more of this on his forehead to maintain the ruddy-cheeked appearance.

It was a fun challenge trying to match is facial hair with how I had painted it previously. I had purposefully streaked his red beard with grey (a la Brendan Gleeson, when he really gets going!) and tried to match that now with a Doombull Brown - Mephiston Red mix, Carroburg Crimson wash, Evil Sunz Scarlett highlight and then varying shades of grey (just Abbadon Black + White Scar highlighted up with more white added).

Like the other heroes, once his gear-base was painted Screaming Bell and washed with Agrax Earthshade, he was ready to head off into the Shadow Market in search of many mystical artifacts!

See you next week on The Art of Caesura!

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New year, new you!

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