77097 Grave Wraith

[Maledrakh]

I try to comfom to the posting title and tags rules as laid down by the high and mighty,..please let me know if anything need to be done differently.

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So, 2017 has arrived.Time to mess about with spirits.

 

 

The first series of translucent Bones were made either in orange or in a bright greenish tinge, and it seems I only ever got round to painting one or two of the green ones.

 

We can't have that, can we?

 

 

 

As with all the translucents, the key is to prime the model with matte varnish. I use Army Painter Anti-Shine spray for this.

After that I use mainly inks as they also are translucent. I have learned the hard way that normal paints are opaque and should be kept to a minimum if I want to keep the minis even slightly translucent.

For this piece I started with a liberal coating of Vallejo Green Ink, taking care to draw off exessive pooling of ink with a damp brush. After that I used some old red lidded hexpot Citadel Turquoise Glaze on the bottom half. I detailed the mini with a very light dusting of normal light bone paint on it's visible skeletal hand, and a slightly heavier drybrushing of ScaleColour Cobalt Alchemy light blue metallic on the sword and crossguard, as if it is half-materialized. I also painted the inside of the hood's cowl with ScaleColor Bloodfest Crimson (a very dark red/brown). What cannot be seen in the pictures are the pinpoint bright yellow/green eyes in the depths of the cowl. The gravestone with skulls was done in typical greys and bone-colour with a simple strong tone quickshade for effect.

Now all it needs is some matte varnish to take the edge off the shinyness of the inks, but that will have to wait until springtime.

 

77097 Grave Wraith

Reaper Bones KS1

Sculpted by Bob Ridolfi

Green translucent Bonesium PVC

40m base

Edited January 7, 2017 by Maledrakh

[Glitterwolf]

Spooky!

[teow]

I'd never considered working with translucents before, but that seems like very good advice. It came out looking very cool as well.

[Chaoswolf]

Great work!

[fectin]

Well. I guess now we know what that's supposed to look like!

Great work, will likely stay definitive in my mind.

[Sieutom]

I guess I would just add my own version of the wraith to that thread instead of creating a new one. 1st take at osl too.

Edited January 11, 2017 by Sieutom

[robinh]

I like how you have used the wraith as the light source with his glow expanding over the gravestone.