My Next Miniature: Detective Twilight Knight (Painted Late Sept, 18)

So back to the 30mm miniatures. It's late September (or early October?) 2018 and I recently purchased a few pin-up miniatures from the Kingdom Death Web Store and I was anxious to paint them immediately. Presenting the Detective Twilight Knight Pin-up miniature!

Original artist's rendering

The Detective Twilight Knight Pin-up is one of a few different renderings of the Allison Twilight Knight KDM miniature. There's some lore behind the character, and the character itself can be used in variations to the Kingdom Death: Monster campaign. I've painted a few of the models and will post them later on.

I chose this miniature because of the style. Many of the KDM miniatures are representative of a quasi- medieval fantasy universe. This miniature forgoes that style in exchange for a more modern, police theme. It was different, the promo cards that came with it were intriguing, and so I wanted to give this one a try. As normal, I wanted to capture the original artist's image of the miniature.

This miniature required more attention to detail. For example, the sword scabbard is very detailed so I focused a lot of attention to this. I gave the scabbard a base uniform grey color, then went with copper and gun steel metallic highlights to the various metallic parts. After that, I gave the scabbard a wash coat to try to give it some depth.








Another thing I wanted to mention is the gold trim on the jacket. At the time, my free hand was still really rough, so this was an opportunity to work on that. I used simple free hand techniques on the gold trim highlights on the jacket and although the picture isn't the best (I really need more training on picture taking) the result was pretty good, all in all.

I'm still not 100% satisfied with this one and may come back to it at a later date to touch up. In the meantime, I hope that anyone whom is reading this enjoys the post. Comments welcome.