The Dogs - Spring Clean Challenge 2026
Ice Queen of the Northlands
The Ice Queen is done. I went for a fairly simple finish on this one. White horse and a range of blended blues for the caparison and the Snow Queen’s coat. I used the pale indigo pastel colour and it gives a slightly patchy finish, even when mixed with other colours. I rather like the effect for this miniature as she is an exile and has been forced to keep using everything even though it is getting a bit worn and faded.
The silver effect is Darkstar Shining Steel over Enchanted Steel. I then added some spot highlights with Darkstar Baroque and then edge and top highlights with Vallejo Pale Burnt Metal. Putting spot highlights on in a different shade helps to make the metal surface more interesting to look at and helps to sell the light glinting off metal effect.
Jewels were painted white then had Magic Blue Speedpaint in a single thin coat with a second heavier focus coat on the bottom 2/3. A tiny dot or two of white was added as a light glint in the pale area, top right corner or thereabouts. They are finished with gloss varnish which makes them look great irl but isn’t so helpful for the photography. Should have remembered to take the photos before putting the varnish on.
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Tyrions horse works really well with her
Thanks @thursday . I’m really happy with how this came out and am very grateful to whoever it was who did the one I saw at the beginning of the project. I liked how the active pose of the horse helps to improve the otherwise static pose she has and I think that is also the case with mine.