Wealdgeist, Spring Cleaning The Forest

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Project Entry by Demonsub

Dryad Time

April 25, 2024

Now it was time to paint the dryads, green ladies of the forest. There were six of these plus a sorceress and all were painted together.

Firstly I gave the entire miniature a base coat of Creed Camo Contrast, as I wanted the minis to be more of a colder grey green.

I gave the minis a drybrush of Pale Sand which really helped to bring the detail out.

I wanted their hair to been a deep green so I give them all two coats of Ork Flesh Contrast.

The weapons and bases were painted in the same way as the earlier models so I won’t mention that again here. I did go back to the pale sand to go over the fine leaf and vine patterns on the miniatures.

I then painted all the tiny leaves and vines with Snakebite Leather Contrast.

The leaves and vines were then skimmed using the edge of my brush with Pale Sand (again).

Lastly the leaves and vines were painted with Mantis Warrior Green.

I dotted the eyes with light green blue. I glazed the sorceress's staff with a thinned down Asurmen Blue Contrast (after painting it the usual grey colours as with my previous weapons). I then finally glazed the dryads skin with a thinned down Creed Camo Contast just to take the edge of the paleness of the highlights.

Here are the finished results. I’m pretty happy with them. For a while I was going to paint in all the highlights using layering for a smoother style but I changed my mind after seeing how well the drybrushing looked.

Next up I’ll be painting the forest sprites.

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