Griffin Thallions. Confrontation

 It was a real pleasure to work on this unit. I used a  Thor's guide about the cracked leather again an now I like the result. To my mind it looks very well on large surfaces.
 The first:

 

 

The second:

 

 

 

A big pic of the coat:

And the guys together (but before plantind a moss on the bases):

Griffin Templars.Confrontation.

 

Griffin Exorcist. Confrontation.

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It was very interesting but difficult work.

My first trying to paint OSL was done two years ago:  it was Infinity's Jeanne D'Arc.

I heard that the main mistake here is a wrong light intensity: a basic lighting  must be darker than a torch lighting.  So I really wanted to repeat this experiment.
And when I opened a blister with exorcist and found two crosses there instead of one - I decided to use them as two candles. Now, it was necessary to put him in a dark place to make a "right" lighting.
The main difficulty for me was to place non-standard lighted areas because of:  first, two candles, and, second, they are pretty low.
But I tried to deal with that :)

Cairn the Apostle & Griffin Icon-Bearer. Confrontation.

Yesterday there was a great event in Moscow: Russian Alternative organized its first competition Winter Angel 2012. Organizers promised to publish more detailed event report a little bit later. But now I can tell one thing - it was really a very strong competition. There was a huge number of amazing works on it, and I'm sure that judges had a hard time to choose the winners.
Specially for this case I've made several new works. None of them won prizes, but I hope, they worthily took place in this event.
Because a luck of time (as usual before any  competition!) I've decided not to paint a new sguad for the unit category but add some characters to my Griffin Spearmen trio. So I added Cairn the Apostle and Griffin Icon-Bearer.

 

And another pics of new miniatures:

Cairn the Apostle

Griffin Icon-Bearer

Griffin Spearmen. Confrontation

The boys have an exceptionally funny armor. I was looking for a long time for their color scheme, as I wanted to do something pathos and  knightly. As a result, I've stopped at the banal red-blue scheme. And I think it suits them.

 

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