Wood you believe it!

That is the reinforcements all painted now. Lots of basing to do next for almost everyone, hope I have enough herbs ?

actually I may varnish first. Always hesitant though in case it wrecks everything done so far.

Well, the model I was looking forward to painting the most and I’m not happy with how she’s turned out. I think the swarms are too plain just in the spirit-blue, might have to get out a tiny brush and try to do the carapaces in the purple I’ve used for the other beastie companions. Hmmm, looking forward to that…..

The new character choice was a great mini to paint. Excellent textures and pose, really worked well with the contrast paint. I left the winged beastie off to get at the rest of the mini first then glued it back on at the end no problem. Really pleased with the end result here.

Actual Hunters finished this morning. Possibly a bit on the dark side but will see after basing.
Cheers for the golden button guys, here’s a cheeky butt shot for Lloydy.

Treelord ancient done. Rather than the Blue spirit energy of Durthu I tried green life magic for the swirls in the bark. Doesn’t pop enough though, the blue is much more vivid. Think I might go back with some white to highlight them a bit then try a yellow glaze to brighten them more?

Unit of converted Spite-Rev’s done. Pretty simple conversion really, as I said before just used dryad bodies with extra spite-rev heads and arms. Without the back branches the hunched poses and big claws do look like they’re coming for you.

Boom! Durthu the angry Treelord mostly complete and I think he looks really good. Same paints as before, super quick but pretty effective. I went back over the swirls in his bark/armour with some white and then used the Aethermatic blue to show the magic/sylvaneth essence bursting out of him, it really pops.

Then there is the current state of the army. Looking good so far. Couple big units of Dryads, Branchwych, Branchwraith made from the skull head on the dryad sprue, 2 units of Shamblers, small unit of tree-rev’s and Durthu. Need (Ha!) another start collecting box that will allow me to add a regular treelord, a few more dryads and use the spare heads front the looncure box on the rest to make more converted Spite-rev’s.

As I said at the start I started the actual project before deciding to try the blog too so from the mini’s primed today I did a couple Step by step pics to show how fast my all contrast scheme is. I also started basing the dryads already painted based on the Forest Shamblers test. The bases get a wash of Wyldwood as a base. 2 grades of a slatey (?) rock I got from the model railway show couple years ago (and have never used, do you sense a theme…) glued in patches and then i will add the mixed herbs. The rims are Matt black, usually i use brown but there is so much brown in the army it needs the black to outline the mini.