Frostgrave Captains, Ghost Archipelago Heritors

I painted up a couple of my Frostgrave captains in preparation for the campaign. With these guys, I tried something new based on my experience with painting Arcadia Quest and Massive Darkness. With both those games, I gave up trying to create a unique color scheme and simply painted to the best of my abilities the characters depicted in the game. I found this method very rewards because it took away the pressure of making up my own color scheme, which I always found stressful. I've exactly understood what colors should go with what, what's a good complimentary color and what's a contrast color, or how to use cold and warm colors. I know what people mean when they talk about such things, and when its pointed out to me, I can say, "Hey, that looks pretty good."

But I have no idea how to do it practice. Worse, the times I did attempt it, I always painted with fear and trepidation, not knowing if the next color I was going to add would destroy the look of the whole model.

With the Frostgrave Captains, however, I did not find the show cased color scheme appealing.

   So instead I looked through pintrest in order to find a color scheme to inspire my models.

   Here's the inspiration I found for the Cultist Captain with the sword and axe:

Pintrest

And here's how I painted the captain:

Ok, they look nothing alike. However, using the picture, I was given a good choice of colors to work with, namely the grayish green, the brown/gray hood and the copperish tone of the armor. By examining the pintest character, I was able to find a presentable color scheme for my captain. Even though it deviated and they look nothing alike, I was at least able to start from somewhere. Starting is my main difficulty.

Using a similar route I used the following two pictures for the next model.

I took namely the red and silver from this character.

And from this character, I added the grayish blue to get....

This guy!

I was pleased with the result. Lastly, for my second cultist captain I went with this fellow for inspiration namely because I've been fearful of using yellow. I practiced a little bit to get the right shade of yellow, eventually using Yriel Yellow and Ushabti Bone from Games Workshop.

pintrest

The yellow turned out better than I had expected. So much so that I used the same yellow on my next captain. His base is still in process so I'll wait to post on him next time.