Painting Tully Cavaliers and the Blackfish

The final big commission of Q1, two boxes of Tully Cavaliers and their Blackfish character on mount. Also two more Blackfish variants for basing. I was tasked with a unified color and base scheme with the Tully Sworn Shields. 

Preparation and initial state

One banner bearer was in a sorry state, with the pole broken and fixed with superglue and wire coiled around. I replaced it with a 1mm brass rod.

Painting

I hummed and hawed over the horses, but as they were already black (or actually off black), I just decided on painting them as-is. One layer of Black Legion fixed any mistakes, then highlight them as per the black horse scheme here. I'll make it a separate painting tip when I get to paint a horse with more flesh visible. No wash yet.

The next decision was the horse cloth, and I decided on a blue-grey transition in between the black horse and blue rider. Basecoat Sombre Grey.

Finally, fix up the leathers with Charred Brown, the white using Grey Seer, and the metal with Chainmail Silver. Dark Fleshtone fur.

Time for the Nuln Oil bath! Across the horse's flesh and cloth, leathers, metal, wood and white.

Then, highlights. Drybrush the horse mane and tail Cold Grey. Highlight the metal Silver (due to the bright basecoat and ridges, ridges everywhere). Highlight the wood Khaki, then Seraphim Sepia. Highlight the white White. Layer the horse cloth Sombre Grey, then highlight Wolf Grey. Highlight the leathers Heavy Brown.

Just a couple of faces visible, so medium skintone and then Wyldwood or Gore Grunta Fur mustaches.

And finally, tackle the bright blues. First, there were some areas still in black primer. Paint them Night Blue.

As with the infantry shields, first fix any mistakes and draw in rough highlights using Heavy Blue. Then finesse in some Magic Blue.

Some extra details on the Blackfish: Light reddish brown hair. Then highlight the fallen Lannister banner (washed black along with everything) Bloody Red.

Basing

Emulating the Sworn Shields, place some puddles and paint the terrain paste Simplified wasteland base. Then paint green around and follow up with Woodland base. Paint the base rim Heavy Charcoal. Add UV resin puddles.

Finished!