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Banshees.
HA and here i thought something ghostly

Those flayed ones turned out amazing! Definitely feeling like I need to kitbash at least a couple of the nighthaunt I have. They're creepy sculpts!

Looking forward to your banshees too.

youwashock wrote:Those Flayed Ones turned out rather nicely.

Thanks youwashock! I'm hoping the skin on the banshees will turn out as nicely!

Not Online!!! wrote:Banshees.
HA and here i thought something ghostly

No points if you didn't say it out loud

Tyranid Horde wrote:Those flayed ones turned out amazing! Definitely feeling like I need to kitbash at least a couple of the nighthaunt I have. They're creepy sculpts!

Looking forward to your banshees too.

Nighthaunt sculpts generally are quite good, but they're very thin and fiddly, which makes converting them hard.

Bases are coming along. Just need to put some highlights on the bone and flowers, then fix up the leaves, then on to the bodies!

Highlights done on bones and roses. Would be done at this point if I didn't decide to redo the fallen leaves, which luckily enough would be undercoated in the same pink that I used to finish off the roses! Gonna do that pink undercoat for the orange and yellow that I absolutely love.

Oohh, those are some pretty bases.

The bases are looking good! Those ETB Nighthaunt have some well detailed bases, you'd think they're models on their own!

I was drawn in by the Irish in the thread title. Well played! Those bases look awesome.

Not Online!!! wrote:Oohh, those are some pretty bases.

Thank you!

Tyranid Horde wrote:The bases are looking good! Those ETB Nighthaunt have some well detailed bases, you'd think they're models on their own!

They really are very detailed! I have the ETB nighthaunt horsies as well and they're just as detailed.

Da Boss wrote:I was drawn in by the Irish in the thread title. Well played! Those bases look awesome.

I'm surprised by the plural of "women" myself, had to triple check it!

I have a question: Do you guys think the "leaves" are better painted as fallen autumn leaves, or as fallen rose petals! I can go either direction from where they are now, but I'm torn now between them!

Gwyn,

Aren't you a little worried that the bases for the Myrmourn banshees are going to be too bright for an army of the dead?

CB

Not particularly. Firstly, the base will be seen through primarily a gauze of mist and fog. Secondly, Myrmourn banshees have this "bridal" thing going on, so I want them a bit brighter than other Nighthaunts. Lastly, my Nighthaunt scheme isn't that "ghostly" so much as it is "horror". Less ephemeral, more apparition, if that makes sense. All physical "objects" are painted as if they are real, limbs and faces are paid quasi-skeletal, and the "bodies" have a layer of flayed skin, with only the "under-layer" of the body-robes being a transition from ghostly purple energy (again seen largely through the mist and fog cotton-swab) up to a white.

Yeah, Mná is women in Irish. It's funny sometimes when it's written on the doors of pubs (Fir is men, so you often have Fir and Mná) and non-Irish speakers will often choose the wrong one, since Mná is at least similar to Man!

Looks like you’ve moved on rapidly! The Flayed Ones came out fantastically well, a really insane macabre bunch they are. I’ll second the praise for the bases, they’ve got fantastic detail on them. I think having the leaves/petals as petals works well, so I’d stick with that

Da Boss wrote:Yeah, Mná is women in Irish. It's funny sometimes when it's written on the doors of pubs (Fir is men, so you often have Fir and Mná) and non-Irish speakers will often choose the wrong one, since Mná is at least similar to Man!

One of those very important phrases to look up before you travel I see!

gobert wrote:Looks like you’ve moved on rapidly! The Flayed Ones came out fantastically well, a really insane macabre bunch they are. I’ll second the praise for the bases, they’ve got fantastic detail on them. I think having the leaves/petals as petals works well, so I’d stick with that

I agree, I did them up as petals and it looks so much better than adding another colour! Need to clean this up and start on the bodies now!

Skin and bone/flesh done (other than Blood For The Blood God). The bone-coloured arms that clearly aren't skeletal are still weird, but I'm sticking to it. They're creepy ghosts, not literally skeletons! Also my excuse for why the "flesh veil" seems to be phasing through one of the tombstones. Not literal flesh (unlike my Flayed Ones), but ghostly apparitions that appear to be wearing skin-veils.

I love how nice the flowers look, i'm sure that's going to contrast well with the banshees when they're all painted up.

And "skin-veils" is... yeah, that's creepy. They're going to be good.

Seconded amazingturtles.
Allzeit gute banshees pretty well

Ghostly skin-veil and bone apparitions will contrast nicely to the bright, living roses. Going to be another neat looking unit.

Great job on the bases, the petals work great. The creepy skin veils are, well icky!

amazingturtles wrote:I love how nice the flowers look, i'm sure that's going to contrast well with the banshees when they're all painted up.

And "skin-veils" is... yeah, that's creepy. They're going to be good.

Thanks amazingturtles! I just hope that the flowers are still visible through the fog once I attach that, but can't do that until literally the last step so, onward!

Not Online!!! wrote:Seconded amazingturtles.
Allzeit gute banshees pretty well

Danke schon!

DJJazzyJeff wrote:Ghostly skin-veil and bone apparitions will contrast nicely to the bright, living roses. Going to be another neat looking unit.

Thanks DJJimmyJazz

gobert wrote:Great job on the bases, the petals work great. The creepy skin veils are, well icky!

I hope to push the skin veils just slightly higher on creep factor still!

But first, I want to finish the elements that tie into the base. I did the rose petals, started the stonework, then realized I missed a whole rose, so you get to see this partway through a rose and partway through the stonework!


Obviously it'll require some cleaning up on around the petals too.

i see my autocorrect did correct it

The base-connection parts are finished now, but for the metal railing which will be done in corroded bronze.

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Turned out really well imo.

Fancy bases Gwyn, the roses look great, make sure you go sparingly with the mists so as not to obscure them too much

Not Online!!! wrote:Turned out really well imo.

Thanks Not Online!!!

gobert wrote:Fancy bases Gwyn, the roses look great, make sure you go sparingly with the mists so as not to obscure them too much

That's the plan gobert! Execution is always up in the air though xD

Started the metals. Balthasar Gold + Sycorax Bronze + Agrax Earthshade. Next, another layer of Sycorax Bronze, then a silver highlight on the blades, then Nihilakh Oxide!

The bright colours of your bases look great with the muted tones of the Mna (I'm also Irish so nice to see the language used!) and I like the idea of an ethereal flesh cloak, very grotesque!

well these ladies certainly will make any swamp, (un)-inviting

Tyranid Horde wrote:The bright colours of your bases look great with the muted tones of the Mna (I'm also Irish so nice to see the language used!) and I like the idea of an ethereal flesh cloak, very grotesque!

Thanks Tyranid Horde! I'm hoping having a cool-toned "dress" will connect up with the cooler flowers (compared to a normal deep red at least) and the blue discolouration you can see below on the metal to also give a nice cool/warm contrast.

Not Online!!! wrote:well these ladies certainly will make any swamp, (un)-inviting

Thanks Not Online!!! I've been really enjoying painting them, they've been surprisingly super easy.


Aaaand, re-highlighted and oxided, the metal is all done! Gotta do the main "bodies", then odds and ends, then blood effects, (especially on the eyes), then mist!

They are looking great!

nice oxidation effect.

This blog has been a very enjoyable binge this morning

I especially like your ghostly undead and the Flayed Ones.

It's funny, I'm just about to start a Necron and some Chainwrasps myself. Synchronicity!