"Then We Will Fight in the Shade" - Conan Spartan Warrior

This is madness...

THIS IS SPARTA!!

- 300, Frank Miller

The best part of Fridays: The Art of Caesura!

We're back to Conan...well sorta...okay, so this is a bit of a confusing one. Well, I backed the Conan board game from Monolith on Kickstarter and one of the minis that was thrown in as incentive was this Spartan Warrior from their subsequent game, Mythic Battles: Pantheon. So while he may not technically be a Conan mini, I'm including him in this bunch.

I think it's pretty clear to see where they got their inspiration from:

But hey, I love 300 so I'm not complaining!

I had a few goals with this model. I wanted to work on a nice Mediterranean ruddy skin tone, and I wanted a nice rich red cloak (as opposed to the grimy ones I usually do!)

To this end, starting from a base coat of Cadian Fleshtone, I used diluted "Indian Shadow" and "Pink Flesh" as a targeted shade to bring out his musculature. I then worked the skin up through Scale 75's flesh tones from Basic Flesh to Light Skin. Unfortunately after spending a while doing this I really wasn't happy with the result. The crevices were too pinky - it didn't look natural, and definitely didn't have the swarthy Spartan Mediterranean look required. I tried an all-over wash of very diluted Seraphim Sepia to bring him back into to the tanned range and out of the pink range, and lo and behold, it worked!

For the cloak, I started with Mephiston Red and shaded the cloak with Carroburg Crimson (where I would normally have used Seraphim Sepia or Agrax Earthshade). I then used multiple thin layers of Druchii Violet in the deeper folds of the cloak before using Evil Sunz Scarlet and adding Yriel Yellow for some rich highlights.

The armour was my regular blend of Hashut Copper, Agrax Earthshade and Runefang Steel. And his sword has a lick of watered down Drakenhoff Nightshade to contrast the warmth of the rest of the model.

The base was the standard "badlands" look which has been my go-to lately. It's simple and effective.

And there you have him! Leonid...I mean Generic Spartan Warrior that I got with Monolith's Conan Kickstarter. See you next time on The Art of Caesura!

Watching: Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (one of my favourite all-time movies)

Reading: Londonstani - Malkani

Next Week:

Onwards, to Middle-earth!

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