03274 Grave Wraith - first mini I've painted in 24 years
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By lexomatic
The WIP is here:
A little less see-through than I'd like, but the light still passes. There is glow in the dark medium used, but it's not very effective, and would never come into play anyway.
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By lexomatic
I had so much fun with my slimes I decided to do a few more translucent minis I had handy.
These are the Grave Wraith and Nightspectre (somewhere else I have a Ghostly Summons 77095, Labella DeMornay 77096, and a spare Spirit 77098 that I will paint another time).
I wanted to do these quickly, so it's ink mostly - the same ones as with the slimes, plus maybe a few darker phthalos.
I've done a coat of glow in the dark medium for each (photographed), a coat of the not highest green, and picked out the skeletons in the nightspectre with a wash of medium and brown liner and base coated the grave wraith's sword and tombstone in a dark blue-grey. not photographed
Eventually everything will get a drybrush of spectral glow (and maybe another, mixed with maggot white, in a few spots).
For the nightspectre, I'm going to try and treat it as a fire and get darker going out. With the wraith, I'm going to go lighter out from the bottom centre. Plus highlights for both.
The goal will be for them to be mostly translucent (and glow in the dark, because everything gets that medium). Hopefully I'll figure out how much direct light, and how much medium I need to be able to photograph this.
Photos later today in subsequent posts.
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By 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
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