Wealdgeist, Spring Cleaning The Forest
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About the Project
Getting back to my Wealdgeist miniatures from Conquest Games for the 2024 Spring Clean Challenge after over 8 months of the project sitting dormant.
Related Genre: Fantasy
Related Contest: Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2024
This Project is Completed
Nymph & Sprites
Now we have Melia, the wood nymph and her sprites. As you’ll see below it took a little playing around with various colours of green before I settled on more of an autumn theme.
First an all over coat of Contrast Ork Flesh.
Then a drybrush of Bright Green.
I then painted their patches of hair(?) with Mahogany Brown.
I then drybrushed the whole miniature with Plague Brown.
One of the sprites had a sling, which I gave a coat of Snakebite Leather (an excellent colour and reminds me of that paint from back in the 90s).
The wooden weapons and bases were painted just like all the other models in this project. See the earlier entries for details. The miniatures were given a wash of thinned down Agrax Earthshade (by around 50%).
The miniatures were then drybrushed with Pale Sans.
Then the skin was glazed with thinned down Ork Flesh, while the hair was glazed with thinned down Snakebite Leather.
Finally the models were drybrushed first with Plague Brown then a mix of Plague Brown and Pale Sand.
Not long now until all of the miniatures are painted. I just have the Green Man and three woodland spirits to paint and that will be everything.
The Green Man & the Spirits of the Forest Bring A Golden Button
Now for the final four miniatures, The Green Man, and three spirits of the forest. Again I played around on the miniatures with the colours, experimenting with how not to paint green things just green.
I started with a base coat of Camo Creed for all but one, since he was a somewhat thorny guy I used Wyldwood. These were lightly drybrushed with Pale Sand.
I used Ork Flesh for the Green Man’s “hair”, the wings, patches of “fur” and all of the bald guy. The spiky guy also had some Ork Flesh on his spikes. Garaghak's sewer was used for the horns of one of the spirits.
To add interest and colour(other than green) I used Mahogany Brown and Plague Brown to patches of leaves on the Green Man, and the fury spirit. Olive Green was used to highlight the Ork Flesh and a very thin coat was given to the green areas on the Green Man.
To deepen the shading and blend the other colours in I gave all of the miniatures a wash of Green Tone.
For the small flower, Ork Flesh was used on the leaves, Pure White was used to highlight the petals and Imperial First for the centre part.
I’m pretty happy with the final result. They are probably the greenest and lightest of all the Wealdgeist minis.
Next time I hope to take some photos of the whole collection.
One More Thing
I was happy enough to be one of the projects featured in last week’s XLBS and received a golden button for this project. A very big thank you for this, and it never gets old seeing your work talked about on the telly.
A Few Photos
The Whole Project Completed
I updated this projects cover picture. I thought it would be fun to replace the picture from the Conquest Games site with a photo of my own painted minis in similar poses.
From the Conquest Games website.
My own miniatures (but with a different colour background).So with this, I’m calling this project complete, well maybe until they release and I buy more Wealdgeist miniatures in the future that is.
Here’s a few photos I took while playing around with scenery.
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