Wealdgeist, Spring Cleaning The Forest
Painting The Wood Elves (or Elves made of wood)
I thought I’d paint all of the alien looking wood elves all together as the process would be very similar for each one.
Firstly I painted the miniature in the exact same way as I painted the treemen, even using this project as a guide.
I wanted a little more green to show so I used Ork Flesh Contrast very sparingly here and there.
For the weapon hafts, all made of wood, I imagined they would be raw wood with the bark removed. I started with a base coat of plague brown, then a heavy overbrush of buff. This was then followed by a wash of light tone. Once that was dry I gave a drybrush of dark sand then a lighter drybrush of pale sand. To be honest I think I over cooked this recipe and I could probability drop a few steps.
For the weapon heads I wanted a stone effect, as there’s no way these creatures of the forest would be using metal. I started with a very very very dark grey (not black but black grey), followed by progressively lighter drybrushings of cold grey, stonewall grey and dead white.
Some of the weapons had twine wrappings holding the stone heads in place. I Just used Snakebite leather contrast with a highlight of the same mixed with dark sand.
I still wasn’t happy about the green on the models so I pushed it with a very light drybrush of lime green in places followed by a glaze of green tone which worked a treat.The mushrooms were painted in the same way as the treemen but I added two new colours.
For the orange mushrooms I started with contrast imperial fist, then magmadroth flame, then a touch of blood angels red in the centre.
With the blue mushrooms I first used aethermatic blue, them asurmen blue which I thinned out towards the edges then added a touch of leviadon blue to the asurmen to darken it and used that for the middle of each mushroom.The rest of the bases and varnishing were done exactly like with the treemen.
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