The Ancient Kin - An Elf Project

At this point my focus has swung around to this mini. So far the base colours were blocked in for the wings, and armour.

The skin is Citadel Bronzed Flesh, upon which I layed  2 thin glazes of Vallejo Khaki as an experiment, instead of the usual Vallejo Brown Shade wash.

The armour is Vallejo Silver . It had two glazes of Citadel Asurmen Blue, then the trim and decorations were based with Steel Legion Drab, carefully layered with Citadel Retributor Gold, then given a wash of Vallejo Brown Shade.

And that’s where we’re up to here:

I did end up applying some Vallejo Brown Shade wash, though well thinned. I’ve gone to highlight with the Sunny Skin Tone. I’vem npt been entirely happy with the skin, but I’m not going to dwell on it. Just keep working on. Maybe overthinking it entirely…

I moved on to the wings and the little bird in his hand. 1i spent some time with googly images again, looking at Hawk wings and patterning. Kind of spent some hours looking at different things, soaked it all up, then picked up the brush…

Ral Partha Elementalist Air Lord, produced 1996. I only just found out today (6/4/21) the singular name for this mini! I bought it in a set of three RP Air-themed minis in the late 90’s.
Winged warrior? Spell effect? Magic armour? The detail at the back wasn’t great. The breastplate just sort of stopped at his sides, the wings glued directly into his back…
Anyway, I’ve included this one in in this project. For inspiration I’ve look at Avariel (winged Elves from D&D), and hawks. The wings aren’t meant to be life-accurate. After soaking in the inspiration, it’s what came out.

The wings were painted with Steel Legion Drab, Vallejo Brown Shade, Vallejo 70950 Black for the feather tips. The lighter colour is Army Painter Skeleton Bone (I think, I kind of forgot) drybrushed on. I then glazed the wingtips with Army Painter Dark Tone.

I might tidy up the base a little, but essentially, this one’s done.