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Project Entry by graystoak

The Wizard

May 28, 2020

Tutoring 5

Skill 5

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The Wizard has a little more variation to his colour scheme than the other heroes and required the most time to complete.

Wizard Player Board Art

Of the four hero models, the Wizard had always been my least favourite. However once I settled down to paint him I found the miniature really grew on me, with some nice detailing and fabric work, particularly on his tunic.

I used Hoeth Blue for the trousers and collar, with Wraithbone for the rest of the tunic. A Drakenhof Nightshade wash over the trousers and a heavily thinned Skeleton Hoard over the tunic added some shading. Again I used the Blood Angels contrast on the gloves, applying it directly over the kahki. I really like the muted red this technique achieves and have used it on lots of the minis in this project. The belt and boots were painted with Vallejo Flat Brown with followed by an Agrax wash. For the hair I used Vallejo Medium Flesh Tone (Which is very yellow for a flesh tone), followed by an Agrax Wash. More of the Flesh tone was applied to the raised areas once the wash had dried. The skin was a Kislev Flesh and Vallejo Pale Flesh mix, highlighted up to Pale Flesh.

Finished Wizard

All that was left to do was the cloak but I didn’t have a single purple paint in my collection! Not wanting to stray from the original colour scheme I mixed the Blood Angels Contrast with the Talassar Blue Contrast and applied it directly over the khaki. The result was pretty close to the board art.