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Harlequin Wraithknight by "River" of Serpentarium - http://z3r-river-eng.blogspot.ru/

My god this is beautiful...

Wow that's a great paintjob and fantastic freehand

 Great White wrote:
Wow that's a great paintjob and fantastic freehand

And it looks like it's magnetized.

Well done.

Beautiful work! But who's piloting it? Cegorach rewards all* his followers in death.

I commissioned river for this model based on a narrative I had written. In short, a Shadowseer loses her twin sister, a fellow harlequin, at the hands of a slaaneshi demon named cicero. Grief stricken, the Shadowseer Nadya contrives a plot to place her sister's spirit stone inside a wraithknight to pilot it, forever being connected with her sister. Secretly commandeering a Wraithknight, using a harlequin spirit no less, is of course forbidden, and as such, Nadya is banished to the webways. Taking the name cicero, always focusing her desire for vengeance, Nadya wanders the webway, hoping to attract Slaanesh, and also periodically appearing to aid the Eldar. As for the art direction, because Nadya is now both ancient and un-maintained, the look of the model is that of slow decay and despair. River captured this perfectly I think.

And yes, all the weapon points are fully magnetized.

This is incredibly well done.

Are there any WIP shots of the model prior to it being painted, I would be really interested to see what was done to it.

Other than a custom dynamic posing, and green stuff for the flowing hair effect, not much, but I believe I do have some WIP photos.

Here:

Thanks very much for those.

It as I said before, an incredible job. Makes me tempted to do one myself, or start a Harlequin army like I was going to last time.

Incredible paint job. All I can say is wow.

Please support River by checking out her blog:

http://z3r-river-eng.blogspot.ru/

Exceptional stuff!

This is truly amazing.
I don't normally care for freehand since it's so hard to pull off and make it look right. This, though, is what I would point to for an example of freehand done right. Exceptional.
The colors are great. I really like the combination of muted and vibrant.
I have no cc for this. Bravo.

I know, I really hope she receives recognition for this, she has submitted the model in a number of events.

Well if that's not the fething creepiest thing I've seen on this forum in awhile. I don't know what's more impressive, the design or the execution.

Wait... are those gem sparkle highlight things painted on?

Well done, this truly a beautiful piece of work.

I am now off to burn all my paints as I could never reproduce anything near as good.

Lovely work, really dig the extra cannon on its shoulder, gives a nice symmetry to it along with the sword arm.

Yes Ailaros, painted.

Really don't know what to say on here sometimes, except

Amazing. Love the freehand!

Her CMN

http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/HopeRiver?browseid=11073905

Ouch - that's good!

I followed her blog already, amazingly talented painter and this model is stunning

Make sure to vote on her cool mini or not page, the wraithknight is up there now.

One of the top examples of story matching art I've seen in 40k. Unreal quality, congrats!

How much for one of these?

10/10

I broke my jaw when it hit the floor. This is incredible. Would like to see more up close pics though....please?

Sexy