The Baron's Hunt - Spring Clean 2026

Following on from last update, I decided to focus on models wearing Mail first. This includes two models that are currently painted which will get some alterations and the models above; The Baron, Two Knights, Two Mounted Knights and a Foot Sergeant with a rather bony complexion.

The main colours that I will be using are Red, Green and Blue, so following the mail, wood and leather areas from last time, I started blocking these in.

For the blue base, I used Incubi Darkness:Abaddon Black in a 2:1 ratio, leaving some black in the shadows on the Black Primed mini. This will be a half scheme with the other side in Red, which I will focus on for this update.

I am not concerned about using a Grey Primer for the rest as I will be adding more shadow later, and I find Grey easier to see detail in.

For Green cloth, I started with Incubi Darkness:Caliban Green:Abaddon Black in a 2:2:1 ratio. It’s very dark, so I covered the full area.

For the Red cloth, I started with a mix of Khorne Red:The Fang:Abaddon Black in a 2:1:1 ratio.

The Fang would add some cold blue to the mix and Khorne Red is already quite dark and lacks the bold redness of something like Mephiston Red. Perfect for my plan for lowlight/moonlit miniatures with the low light levels at night showing Reds with less saturation and much darker than blue colours.

At each stage with these reds, I also covered areas on my red painted models with the corresponding shadow/mid/highlight colours. Just with 1 thin coat, with the intention of desaturating them and tying them into the new theme.

For the next layers of Red I used:

Khorne Red:The Fang in a 1:1 ratio as a first highlight/layer (see the rear of the horse in the next image)

followed by,

Mephiston Red:Fenrisian Grey in a 1:1 ratio as a bright highlight (see the front of the horse in the next image).

I focused these towards the top of the mini, I also selected the left (right as I look at it) of the model to have the highlights running a little further down to suggest the light was coming from up and to their left.

I wondered if the Fenrisian Grey was too much of a jump alongside the Mephiston Red to add some saturation. I had also tried the previous Khorne:Fang with some Screaming Skull mixed in but it was too pink. Maybe just Fenrisian into that would have been enough. In the end, I think it has worked fine, but it is something to consider when I work on the Blue and Green, not to jump all at once into the next brightness level.

I also considered where future shadows would be, keeping highlights from extending under limbs, cloaks, the horses neck etc, as these areas will be getting darkened further later.

With that, I was happy with the red for now, and am moving onto the blue and green. I have another image collecting the red clothed models together.

The Wargames Atlantic Guard with GW Dark Riders head is still a bit bright, but I can work on that when I add some more shading.

I hope that the effect is starting to come through, I might need to think about finding something dark to photo against, at least for the finished models later as it is hard to read “Moonlight” when they are in a white space. Future me problem.