Leshen? Leshavult? A Moonstone and Woodland Whimsy Project

Next on the blocks are Voth and Homunculus. I’m starting with the little Homonculus here.

I wanted to get the book done first so I could then focus on the rest of the miniature. I drew in details using a fine micron pen that was meant to be waterproof when dried. But if course it smudged when I tried to do anything the following day… So I retouched and then gave it a quick spray of varnish to fully fix it, before adding extra colour, and allowing me to do some more shading and weathering later.

Such a characterful little miniature is ol’ Chubs here. I really enjoyed getting his face right.

Another glowing D4 Moonstone and an attempt to do a bit of OSL glow from it. Not overly successful, but doesn’t look too shabby.

Gloom came together pretty well. I like the glow from his lantern, and am again pleased with the basing. I’ve kept most of his colours quite earthy so that the glow stands out more.

This is the Wendigo from the Wild Things set. I tried to go with a blood dripping hand but it went a bit clumpy. Nevertheless, it looks like a proper gore soaked fist – like he’s just punched his fist straight through someone – urrrgh.

Love the details on this miniature, and am super-pleased with the basing.

For Danica here, I wanted to make her look quite dank and damp – like she’s crawled out of a swamp. I attempted an ombre graduation from lighter purple down to black on her skirt. The skin was achieved with some mixes of green and yellow contrast paints. Yellow eyes give her a sense of menace.

And here she is. Am really pleased with the details and how her face has come together. I like the little plaid patch on the back of her skirt, and the green goop in her cauldron.

Some initial progress on two of the witches from the A Witch In Time set – Antonia the Noonday Witch and Danica the Dusk Witch.

Here, I’ve been blocking in the basic colours – earthy browns for Antonia’s clothes, and greens and purples for Danica.

Some highlights and shade on the fur, highlights on the white underfur and painting in the horns – and the Jackalope is done!

Not much space on the base for too much detail – but a fern and tuft or two ties it into the other bases.

…totally emotionless except for his heart.

This miniature came together really well, and was a joy to paint. I sculpted a whole bunch of little green stuff moonstones (shaped like tiny D4 which are used in the game to represent the moonstones that we harvest). I painted this in glowing blue effect, and decided to do the same blue glow on Gump’s rune and his eyes.

The Jackalope has such an amazing, expressive face, with some sculpted in details such as the pupils of the eyes. Here I’ve started trying to get that right combination of angry and cute.

So, I painted the first lot so quickly (in roughly a single weekend) that I didn’t take enough WIP photos. Here’s some I did take!

I picked up some of these back with The Arising Kickstarter from 2022(?), and others from the website, and 1 miniature from the very recent Shades Kickstarter that Gerry has been waxing lyrical about recently.

They’ve all been given simple green stuff bases to add some texture and fix them into the bases. Tactical rocks for Jackalope and Eric as they don’t quite fit the bases naturally.

And here’s the finished miniature. I really love how he has come together, and am super pleased with all the lovely details (rocks, ferns etc) that I got into the base to really make him feel like he’s walking through the forest.

The 2 birds were part of the set, and I painted them separately to glue on at the end.

The first miniature I wanted to share was the “Mean Tweets” Treeman from Robot Rocket Miniatures. This miniature was released a few years ago and I was lucky enough to get my hands on it. It’s a beautiful piece of resin – and I wanted to do it justice.

Over a wraith bone primer, I’ve started carefully adding layers of thinned contrast as glazes, so I can preserve some transparency and hopefully really get a lot of character into the face.