Warhammer's Royal Couple: Ariel & Orion

[NyarlaBcn]

The project I've been working on for the past two weeks: Ariel and Orion, queen and King of the wood elves from Warhammer fantasy setting. 

Their background is quite simple actually, clearly inspired on Titania & Oberon of the fey people. Ariel is a mage, Oberon is the hunter. 

I decided to paint them with opposite schemes: Ariel with an autumn palette (the flow of her dress made me regret it many times: it could have looked great in blue) and Orion with an spring one. Both are classic characters from Warhammer. Both metal models. Ariel's is really old: probably around 4th-5th edition; there was also an Orion model back then, but mine is the rework from 8th edition. While Ariel's original model shows its era aesthetics but it's still appealing, I thought Orion's original model was outdated and not that good. While painting them, Orion took a lot more time (a lot more), since it has a lot more detail. 

 

 

[Inarah]

They look great. 

[Darcstaar]

Awesome pair!

[Boaz]

So spring and fall are covered ... any plans for summer and winter ?

[Glitterwolf]

Great job!

Both look the part!

[Disemboweler]

Great job. Nice color choices. 

[CorallineAlgae]

Amazing! I don't know what colors you used for the lady's dress, but it kind of looks like leather or skin, especially the back of the skirt. Just love that dress! I never would've thought about painting it like that. Beautiful. The horned guy is also excellent. Love the way you painted his bow! 

 

Also a fan of the way you match up colors on the bases with similar colors from the figures. Fairy type creatures should look like part of their environment. Nicely done.

[NyarlaBcn]

On 5/22/2018 at 4:03 AM, Boaz said:

So spring and fall are covered ... any plans for summer and winter ?

haha now you say it, I would love to do something with summer & winter... but I just don't know (yet, at least) with which miniatures. These two are demigods on Warhammer setting, and their size is bigger than that of a regular elf: I think they must be equivalent to a 54mm scale figure. There is not other elven characters that scale that I know... 

 

11 hours ago, CorallineAlgae said:

Amazing! I don't know what colors you used for the lady's dress, but it kind of looks like leather or skin, especially the back of the skirt. Just love that dress! I never would've thought about painting it like that. Beautiful. The horned guy is also excellent. Love the way you painted his bow! 

 

Also a fan of the way you match up colors on the bases with similar colors from the figures. Fairy type creatures should look like part of their environment. Nicely done.

Thank you! For the Lady's dress I used "Dryad Bark" as a base, then lighten it with "Karak stone", and finally highlighted with "Karak Stone". All washed a couple times with "Agrax Earthshade". All of them are Citadel. Dryad Bark is a deep kinda greyish brown, and Karak Stone... I don't know how to describe it xd Believe me, I wasn't sure about painting it that way till it was almost done. I think one of my strong suits is that I have - Or I think I have -  a good eye for color, and combining color... and that usually saves it for what I lack on technique. 

And thank you for what you say about the bases ^^ Basing is not my strong suit, and I can rarely work on improve it just because I don't have space for escenic bases... 

 

[Chaoswolf]

Beautiful work on both of them!!