Wood Elf Heavy Hitter
Technically this doesn't count towards my monthly painting target for the core army. As he part of the stretch goal for this army. But he was painted as part of my start up with an airbrush.
It was surprisingly easy to do the different zenithal highlights and lowlights. And because the figure is quite large I didn't have to worry about getting the fine detail right. Once the airbrushing was complete it was a mixture of green/brown/grey dry brushing and a bit of dark green contrast paint.
The base was a mixture of the usual scenic scatter, dry brushed white to simulate frost and some of the white snow paint from Citadel.
So this figure is a 6-Soul Sluagh (Description from the Oakbound website - A particular form of dark fateweaving can bind trapped souls into rocks and plant matter, animating them into elemental beings of great strength. These are the Sluagh.) from the Oakbound miniatures range. Whilst not a treeman it is a earth spirit which again fits in very well with the wild elf look of the army. Plus it is a sizable miniature which nicely towers over enemy units.
He is designed to fit into the colour themes and style of my winter wood (wild) elves. So, I added some snow to the top of the model. As, this seemed to quite appropriate.
These fungi are a bit different from my usual two part red/purple mushrooms which have been used on multiple other figures. So, these one have an third part around the middle and I have went for muted blue/grey scheme. I will add some skulls to the bases once I get round to painting them
Rob
Nice work on him. :)
ReplyDeleteA massive beast, on which we really like the contrasts between warm and cold tones. Did you sculpt the mushrooms or what brand are they?
ReplyDeleteThe mushrooms were sculpted by me with Milliput.
DeleteThanks, he was great fun to paint.
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