Resolution 2021: Clearing the pile of shame, again

Zephyra is another 75mm mini from Bella Nacht (https://bellanacht.com/characters/). I’ve painted her up so I can use the scythe blade and chain for gold leaf practice.

Normally when painting a display model I use the Games Workshop paint system (i.e. base colour, wash, layer 1, layer 2). As this is a 75mm model though I’ve put in a bit more effort and done base, wash, base and layer 1 50:50 mix, layer 1, layer 1 and layer 2 50:50 mix, layer 2).

Her skin tone used rhinox hide as the base, agrax earthshade as the wash, and doombull brown and tuskgor fur as the layers.

The woodedn scythe shaft was base coated dryad bark, washed with agrax earthshade and use gorthor brown and baneblade brown as the layers.

Her skirt was base coated loren forest, wased coelia greenshade, and used straken green and nurgling green as the layer colours.

The bones and wrapping on the scythe handle were base coated zandri dust, washed either seraphim sepia (bones) or reikland fleshshade (wrapping) with layer colours ushabti bone and screaming skull.

Her hair was painted abbadon black with simple highlights of skavenblight dinge and stormvermin fur.

The scythe blade and chains have just been painted mechanicus standard grey as I intend to cover it all with silver leaf. Once I do that I’ll post the update in my Egyptian Mythology Display project (https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1660768/).

Emberlynn is another mini from Bella Nacht (https://bellanacht.com/characters/). This time the model is closer to 150mm in scale.

I wanted to try an unusual skin tone and as I was watching last week’s unofficial hobby hangout where colour wheels were being discussed, I decided to go for a classic triadic colour scheme.

The skin was base coated mephiston red, washed carroburg crimson in the recesses and where I wanted to show more shading, and then layered with evil sunz scarlet followed by a 50:50 mix of evil sunz scarlet and wild rider red.

The hair was base coated with iyanden darksun, washed casandora yellow, then highlighted flash gitz yellow.

The blue flames were base coated caledor sky, washed drakenhof nightshade, then highlighted with calgar blue followed by fenrisian grey.

In the pictures you can see some printing gradients (particularly her wrists) but to the naked eye they’re not that obvious. There is also a printing artefact across her stomach and left hip.

Also looking at the photos I now notice I accidentally got some blue paint on her hair.

Regardless I’m very happy with the final outcome.

This was another Bella Nacht miniature (https://bellanacht.com/characters/). For this one I wanted to experiment with complimentary shading (I believe that’s the name) where instead of shading with the same colour, you shade with the opposite colour on the colour wheel. I went with a triadic colour scheme but focussing on colours I rarely paint: pink, blue, and green.

The skin was painted screamer pink  then selectively shaded with coelia greenshade. I then applied about five layers of highlight progressively going through different ratios of pink horror and emperor’s children.

The blue was painted caledor sky then washed carroburg crimson. I then applied about five layers of highlight progressively going through different ratios of teclis blue and lothern blue.

The green was painted waaagh! flesh then washed volupus pink. It was highlighted with warboss green.

The bones and horns were painted zandri dust then washed agrax earthshade. They were then highlighted with ushabti bone followed by screaming skull.

The chain was painted mechanicus standard grey then washed nuln oil. It was then highlighted with dawnstone followed by administratum grey.

The hair was simply painted corvus black.

The base was just a simple layer of wyldwood.

This is another 75mm 3D print from Bella Nacht Miniatures (https://bellanacht.com/characters/). With this one I wanted to practice my colour blending to try and give the impression her dress is transparent so you can see her skin beneath where the dress touches her skin.

For all the colours mentioned below I used multiple mixes between the colours to get a smooth transition.

The skin (including all her legs) were painted using rakarth flesh, reikland fleshshade, flayed one flesh and pallid wych flesh. The stockings were then painted with a watered down layer of army painter purple tone.

The skull was painted zandri dust, agrax earthshade, ushabti bone and screaming skull.

The hair was painted corvus black, incubi darkness and mechanicus standard grey.

The dress was painted naggaroth night, druchii violet, xereus purple and genestealer purple.

I then picked out areas where the dress was close to the skin and painted it with several mixes of genestealer purple and pallid wych flesh, starting with a mostly purple mix and working to a mostly flesh colour in the centre of each area. Once dry these areas were then given a light wash of druchii violet.

I picked these four models up from a Kickstarter, but you can pick up the models now from Oakbound (https://www.oakbound.co.uk/product/spriggan-band/).

I want to focus on painting with green colours (which I don’t use a lot) and I’ll also try to do some nice swamp bases (which I’ve never done before).

To ensure I get the skin tones correct I’ve found some reference images to use.

These ended up being a very nice little side project. I like the way the swamp bases turned out too. The bases were built up with milliput before the models were undercoated. They then had a layer of stirland mud. This was washed with agrax earthshade then drybrushed with tyrant skull. Nurgle’s rot was painted in the recesses to form pools. The rims were painted steel legion drab and then some army painter scroched tufts were applied.

Another miniature from Bellnacht.com. Given the season it made sense to paint this model up. A few printing artefacts on the back of her legs that I should really have tidied up before undercoating, but never mind.

Rhodanthe is another 75mm print from Bella Nacht miniatures. At first I was going to paint her with blue or blue-green skin, but then I thought I’d try something different. So I googled images of squids and picked one to try and copy.

The model was painted all over with apothecary white first. Then I picked areas to be stippled with bugman’s glow. Then these areas were washed with reikland fleshshade, then stippled with cadian fleshtone followed by kislev flesh.

The minimal clothing was painted corvus black and then highlighted mechanicus standard grey.

Her eyes were painted abaddon black.

Nuln oil was used to pick out her gills, ears, and the gaps where her tentacles and skin touched.