Some Sylvaneth Projects

This post is going to be a bit of a photo dump, but I've been working on my Sylvaneth (in addition to Space Marines, Space Orks, and Aeldari).

 Alarielle the Everqueen. Still finishing up the beetle, but she's as done as she's going to be. If I keep fiddling with it, I'll mess something up, and I'm happy with how she turned out for tabletop purposes.

While I did stick to some of the color schemes they use in the studio, I did make a few minor variations. Nothing drastic, just enough to make it mine. Still working on getting better with painting flesh.

My branchwych. Went a little overboard with the Vallejo wood tone shade, but I'm pleased with the final result. This was also my first attempt at a vibrant "rune glow" on both the stone and sigil carved into the bark. Not entirely pleased with the blade of the scythe, but whatever. I'm happy with the way the base itself turned out.

 A kitbashed Branchwraith. Made out of parts of dryad, tree/spite revenant, Durthu, and hair from one of the sisters of the thorn. Quite a bit of green stuff. Not the best ever, but not too shabby, and I think she turned out decent for a first attempt. I regret the moss "belt" now that I look at it, but I had some unsightly green stuff gaps and was in a time crunch to get it done.

It wasn't until after I was finished that I realized I had put her on a 40mm base instead of a 32mm base, however none of my opponents have said anything about it.




Below is my first batch of spite revenants. The photo is a bit dark, but they turned out pretty decently. Happy with the skin, all GW colors: Ulthuan grey (to bring them up from the Mournfang brown primer), then a layer of Nighthaunt Gloom, then layered up Nihilakh Oxide and Baharroth Blue. Think I may have done a final drybrush of Fenrisian Grey as an afterthought to polish it off. Basing was very simple, went with a "dead" orange flocking around the feet and then just a green flocking for the rest of it.

Zombicide #1

Here's a few quick pics of the Zombicide! figures that I have finished up.

I'll have to get around to taking pictures of the rest that I have completed and posting them up.

Miniatures update

Here's the updates on the painting front, as I kind of left off a few months ago with my painting projects. Starting a few Wood Elves in addition to the High Elf army, so there's some mixed stuff here.

Further progress on mounted noble

Got a little more done on the noble tonight.

More painting!

It seems I'll never get on top of the painting to-do list. Getting my dragon princes worked on, while doing the mounted noble as well. Might as well get the base coat for the white done on all the horses as long as I'm working with the grey on my brush. Just feels overwhelming.

When (if?) I get the mounted figures done, I'll be down (HA!) to the battle standard bearer, 2 lion chariots, 10 swordmasters (refuse to get more until they release them in plastic instead of finecast), 5 ellyrian reavers (oh crap....more horses), 2 bolt throwers, 20 archers, and a huuuuuuuge slew of spears.

If the Xmas white dwarf brings me more figures, I'll still have to assemble and paint those.

Ugh.

A follow-up

I just want to throw this out there about the griphon: I had some issues with the claws and beak. I decided to do the logical thing and search some images on the internet for some real-life inspiration...here are the two pics I really drew from as far as colors.

 

Gryphon Prince/Noble

Pretty much done! Just need to play around with the base...ugh! But I don't plan on doing anything further with the paint. It's good enough! I have too much else to do to sit and fuss over it anymore! (Which means that I'll most likely go back and touch up this or that...but not likely)

Gryphon prince/noble WiP

Here's the WiP pics of the Island of Blood prince on griphon. Trying to get it finished up because I've been procrastinating for a year or so. Just down to detail work...which tends to be the tedious part of it.

Alarielle finished!

Here are the pics of the finished model that I submitted for the quarterly painting contest. Voting starts tomorrow, winner announced in 1 week. I highly doubt I'll score in the top 3... but whatever! Just glad it's done. Next time I'm going with a larger model.

Cavalry prince/noble WiP

Some work in progress shots of my cavalry prince/noble. While I'm happy with the green, I'm not happy with the green on this particular model. My intention was to go with a blue/aqua scheme on this one, along with the bulk of the army and have my dragon princes with this color scheme. After I got done applying the green and starting with some of the highlights I realized which model I was painting and said "Awwww, shit. Oh well." Sure, I could have stripped the paint and started over, but with time a precious resource I decided to keep it.

So, the start of my prince/noble. Sorry about the blurry shot on the first pic, my hands shake every so often. Caffeine and nicotine related (I hope).

Display piece WiP again

Further progress on the display piece. Need to sand down the pillars a little, let it dry up, then base coat it, flock it, and thrn detail work. Need to wait 2-3 days for it to dry. Hopefully less than that...as it all has to be done and turned in Friday. I still feel confident I have enough time.

Display piece WiP

Started the display piece tonight. I'm soooooo over this project. I think that, if I participate in the next painting challenge, I'll just get a large model (or a full unit) instead of a single figure. Seems so much easier.

Going with a larger display piece so that I can use it for terrain possibly in future games. Or maybe not. I'll figure that out later.

I have a nagging feeling that this thing isn't going to be spectacular. Motivation dwindling, and I have 5.5 more figures to paint for the Ulthuan December challenge (yeah, I know that it's not mandatory....but I'd really like to get my army painted and participating in the monthly challenge seems to be the best motivator).

Last WIP for Everqueen

This is going to be the last WiP for Alarielle. I might do WiP for the display piece, but the figure itself just needs about 5-10 mins more work and then done!

Display piece will be... fun.
At least it's not finecast!

Started working on my prince/noble on elven steed ... even though I should knock out the griphon prince.

More progress

As I close in on completing the paint job on this figure, I have to say I will never buy another finecast model ever again. EVER.

Well, maybe.

I think I just hate the sculpt on this one particular one. 3 times (or more) I have had to repaint a section because a tiny little bit of flash evaded me on the 7 passes I made during the initial cleanup, that start to become glaringly obvious once some paint is applied.

The more I stare at this model, the more I dislike it. It might be my color scheme...but I doubt that's the problem (at least, I hope that's not the problem). I hate the headdress. It looks more Egyptian than elvish. That aside, the claim that finecast allows for more details? Moot point if the details are so fine that they get lost in a layer of paint (not even a thick layer)!

Well, the only stuff left is the flesh tones, touching up spots that my shaking hands farked up, a wash, and the base. Then it's on to the terrain/diorama bit to spruce it up a bit (which should be far less headache).

Also, using the camera on my phone zoomed in seems to bug me, too.

Alarielle WIP

First off, I would like to take a quick moment to state that finecast is a horrible medium. Resin is super soft, and the flash and mold lines on the figure are so bad that I'm discovering little gaps of flash as I'm painting that I missed when cleaning up the model. UGH!

The other day I picked up the clay and pillars I am going to be using for the diorama/base for the model when entering it at the store for the painting challenge.

Slowly progressing...

Forward is a good direction to move!
Over a year after starting my collection, I'm digging out my WFB high elves. My last progress was back around New Year's, when I finished assembling my meager collection of dragon princes. The prince on griffon (from the Island of Blood set) is about 95% painted, just need to put some finishing touches on the beak and prince.
In the last week, I've assembled Caradryan (finally!), assembled Alarielle the Radiant, and have now base coated all 6 of my lords and heroes plus the dragon princes.

Painting to do (in some sort of order):

• Allarielle the Radiant (need to figure out some sort of display, as she's my entry into a local painting showcase/competition)
• Mage (started, need to finish)
• Noble (battle standard bearer)
• Dragon princes
• Phoenix guard
• Lion chariot x2 (still need to basecoat)
• Bolt thrower x2 (still need to basecoat, plus I'm considering mounting them on a stand of sorts)
• Everything else (spearmen, archers, swordmasters, reavers)




Where I was Sept 2012



Nov 20, 2013
Lords and Heroes assembled, ready to prime (or finish)



Close-up of my prince, Nov 20, 2013



Dragon princes primed, Nov 21, 2013



Lords and heroes, primed Nov 21, 2013

When I'm not busy shooting them one way....

I shoot them another!