Chris was looking forward to trying his hand at the cloak, as it wasn't something he had done before. Looks pretty good I would say. The highlights are a little too subtle in my opinion, but that is completely subjective and it could look much different in person anyway. The gold is looking good, the colored washes in the recesses really helps to bring out a rich gold color.
I really am not a fan of painting over white primer. I always manage to have spots in the recesses that don't get covered and become glaringly obvious because of the white undercoat. You also can't leave a gap between sections of different colors for a kind of poor-man's black lining. Of course, having two armies whose primary colors are red and yellow means painting over black can be a real beating. In the end, I usually choose the white undercoat and try to scour the model after basecoating looking for white spots because it's just so much easier get that basecoat on.
I painted some more last night and got most of Astorath's axe painted and all of the scrolls and parchment basecoated. I'm going to have to re-do the axe blade, as I tried to get a little too ambitious with it and failed quite hard. I'll have some pictures at the end of this week.
Brandon
