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I've recently (re)taken the plunge into AoS after the initial release soured me on the lack of structured play, but the work put in to make structured play viable and the gorgeous minis really helped change my mind.

My only issue left was a paint scheme. I'm not the biggest fan of the cyans and greens of the official scheme, but I wanted to make something really eye catching and my own. In the end I settled on something....a bit off theme for tree people; inspired by a paint job I did for a Daemon Prince almost two and a half years ago, my Sylvaneth are going to be a dark grey-brown, emitting embers and cinders and all things fiery from within their bodies.

First model I have painted is (a Spirit of) Durthu; his sword got painted more brightly and more fiery than the rest of him so his enemies know that it's super dangerous, the cracks in his bark expose some more of his fiery core and the leaves are all smoldering and charred.







Overall I'm really pleased with how it turned out as well as how quick it took to paint. The brown-grey is easy and fast to do, and while it doesn't have a lot of depth to it, the orange glow distracts the eye enough for it not to really matter.

one matter I've still not quite settled on is how to do the base. I'm not the biggest on elaborate bases and usually go with GW texture stuff and in this case was thinking either something like ash wastes or badlands for the dark scheme to contrast off of . Thoughts and feedback are welcome

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Great Start! Love to see more like this. Unique concept too.

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Yep. This is awesome great idea, and great execution

How about doing a base of ash, scorched grass, charred logs and glowing embers? Not quite sure how but it would fit the theme

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Next up is a Branchwych, I actually finished the paint job a couple of days ago, but was busy building up some dryads and forgot to take pictures!

I left off the braid while building her to kind of personalize it.....and because it was weird. While I quite like the mini, it looks almost too fragile next to dryads. I'm not sure if its the back-branch or the mass of branches for their heads or maybe even just thinner limbs and stance, but if it wasn't for the scythe she'd easily get lost in the dryads.






Again I'm super pleased with how the model turned out, though it was only after I added embers to the points of her crown and calves did I feel like there was enough contrast across the model. The scythe isn't as bright as durthu's mainly because it's no where near as powerful (but also because I was concentrating more on Durthu's and the colours dried before I could wet blend it up any more ). Only concern is how I'll make my second one look visually distinctive if I ever build it up.

Master Azalle wrote:Great Start! Love to see more like this. Unique concept too.


Thanks friend

Ynneadwraith wrote:Yep. This is awesome great idea, and great execution

How about doing a base of ash, scorched grass, charred logs and glowing embers? Not quite sure how but it would fit the theme


Thanks man!

I originally wanted to stay away from making the bases too similar to them mainly because of contrast. That being said, I started to think about making a bunch of counts-as Wyldwoods since flourishing trees kind of break theme and they're expensive as feth. A cheap and (hopefully fast) version would be a scorched and ashey grove with pillars of smoke instead of trees, which means probably a light-ish grey a la AStrogranite Debris

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Looks awesome dude

Do you play 30k? It'd be a lot cooler if you did.  
   
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 Crablezworth wrote:
Looks awesome dude


Thanks dude!

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Awesome scheme, it certainly is eye catching.

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I love, LOVE that scheme. It's such a grim-dark looking scheme but at the same time pleasant to the eye. If I can give my 2 cents, I feel at least the bugs should be used to create some contrast fun You say you feel she'd be lost amongst the dryads, but if the bug had a vibrant color in contrast to all the deadwood around it, I think it would pop in an interesting way.

Again, just my 2 cents, they are your models

(And yeah, that Astogranite would probably look pretty good with them. )

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evildrcheese wrote:Awesome scheme, it certainly is eye catching.

EDC


Thanks man!

TheDraconicLord wrote:I love, LOVE that scheme. It's such a grim-dark looking scheme but at the same time pleasant to the eye. If I can give my 2 cents, I feel at least the bugs should be used to create some contrast fun You say you feel she'd be lost amongst the dryads, but if the bug had a vibrant color in contrast to all the deadwood around it, I think it would pop in an interesting way.

Again, just my 2 cents, they are your models

(And yeah, that Astogranite would probably look pretty good with them. )


Thanks! Honestly, I agree with you about the bugs and contrast....I just couldn't decide on a colour to use and wanted to finish the model Any suggestions? I'll paint up some of the insects all these kits come with and try it out

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I really like it so far! and i kind of love that bug thing, just on its own. Keep it up!

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Looks great.

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 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

Thanks! Honestly, I agree with you about the bugs and contrast....I just couldn't decide on a colour to use and wanted to finish the model Any suggestions? I'll paint up some of the insects all these kits come with and try it out


Considering all your colors are either fairly neutral (browns) or hots (the whole cinder), I'd consider some kind of bright blue chitin to really pop. Taking the one you have there, I'd consider leaving the "squishy" parts as they are, and try a kind of blue chitin. Maybe something like this:

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IDK I like the bug as it is. Saying that, I do love me some low-contrast neutral palette colour schemes...

You've got the brightness of the scythe to stand out from the rank-and-file

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Oh, and I've come up with a semi-expanded Shadow War idea and need some feedback! https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/726439.page

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amazingturtles wrote:I really like it so far! and i kind of love that bug thing, just on its own. Keep it up!


Thanks friend

ph34r wrote:Looks great.


Thanks, means a ton

TheDraconicLord wrote:
 Skimask Mohawk wrote:

Thanks! Honestly, I agree with you about the bugs and contrast....I just couldn't decide on a colour to use and wanted to finish the model Any suggestions? I'll paint up some of the insects all these kits come with and try it out


Considering all your colors are either fairly neutral (browns) or hots (the whole cinder), I'd consider some kind of bright blue chitin to really pop. Taking the one you have there, I'd consider leaving the "squishy" parts as they are, and try a kind of blue chitin. Maybe something like this:

Spoiler:


I'll try a jade, that might work pretty well

Ynneadwraith wrote:IDK I like the bug as it is. Saying that, I do love me some low-contrast neutral palette colour schemes...

You've got the brightness of the scythe to stand out from the rank-and-file


I was pretty pleased with the scythe for drawing the eye, but I'll give different coloured bugs a shot too

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ooohhh, Jade! I like that idea, hope it turns out good

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The orange on those is superb. What's your paint scheme breakdown ?

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 lord marcus wrote:
The orange on those is superb. What's your paint scheme breakdown ?


The orange glow starts with a khorne red and rhinox hide mix and then mix it up through khorne red, doombull brown, mournfang brown, skraag brown, finishing with a skraag brown and yriel yellow mix


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Quick update on the dryads; they're trucking along, the orange is about 75% done, with only some highlights and transitions left after that (and leaves). Also thought lord marcus would like to see the progression.

Gotta say though, those kits are showing their age with construction, some very small connection points and not a lot of variation.

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Dryads are looking good dude i can just imagine a chaos warband torching a forest and assuming that that's killed all of the gribbly tree monsters inside, only for these guys to rise up from the smoldering remains (really pissed off!)

Do you plan on doing any Tree/Spite Revenants? They'd go really well with the glowing orange methinks

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Thanks! Should be done painting them by today.

And yeah, I was planning on having two units of 5 Tree Revenants, wasn't too sold on the Spites. If their Bravery debuff stacked or was able to be used out of combat, or they had more range on their attacks then maybe, but it seems like you take them just to lower Bravery for Drycha to blast them with her spell.

That being said, I actually have no idea how I'm going to paint the Revenants

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 Skimask Mohawk wrote:
 lord marcus wrote:
The orange on those is superb. What's your paint scheme breakdown ?


The orange glow starts with a khorne red and rhinox hide mix and then mix it up through khorne red, doombull brown, mournfang brown, skraag brown, finishing with a skraag brown and yriel yellow mix


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Quick update on the dryads; they're trucking along, the orange is about 75% done, with only some highlights and transitions left after that (and leaves). Also thought lord marcus would like to see the progression.

Gotta say though, those kits are showing their age with construction, some very small connection points and not a lot of variation.



thank you so much.

When you say mix it up...could you list which paints are mixed in each layer, because as I am reading it now it seems like i am mixing khorne red into the previous mix.

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Yeah sorry, you go Khorne/Rhinox into Khorne, Khorne into Doombull, Doombull into Mournfang, etc...

On the dryads I didn't actually bother with mixing paints except for the first and last steps, but with the characters I did a 50/50 mix of each colour to get a better transition (i.e Khorne>Khorne/Doombull>Doombull)

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Alright, the first 16 are all done!

I'm happy with the end result, especially after the Agrax and Reikland washes (forgot those too lord marcus!) that helped blend it all together. That being said, I need more brown in my bark colour for them; I went too fast into the grey, so the oranges don't transition as well. I'm dreading the next batch of them tbh, building was really frustrating for models that have 6 pieces, the nymph in particular is monopose and kind of doesn't really make sense...











The two with the skeletons are going to be my counts as branch nymphs for when I split the 30 total into three units of ten for 1000pt games, I just hate the pose so much of the "correct" build of the nymph

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They look bl**dy scary is what they do! Very nicely done

I'll second you on the odd pose of the standard Nymph. Not quite certain what it's doing either. Good idea using the ones with skeletons to differentiate things

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Hahah thanks! I can't wait to start making the "forests" for these guys to really push the theme.

Am a bit concerned with dryad diversity though, as I'm now getting another 32 second hand so I really don't want to end up with a bunch of skeleton and/or nymphs to throw things off. Even without that, the options are...limited for arms and bodies

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They may be somewhat static, but damn, you made them look so freakin' good!

Well, if you really need, you can cut the branch with the skeleton and add some other kind of identification. Maybe the leaders are the only ones bloody? Should be flame start to become weaker and weaker the "older" they get?

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great work on the dryads! love the color scheme brother

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Nice work on the Dryads, they look awesome!

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The faces really do give that sense of still having the fire inside them!

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So I went and picked up some Kurnoth Hunters and Tree-Revenants yesterday, and boy are they cool models.





They come with a pretty nice variety of bits so you're not stuck with the same details, as well as not having to make the unique models if you're just expanding the unit (i.e. no unit leaders, banners, musician, etc...). They were also a blast to put together and there wasn't any fiddly connection points. That being said, I think it'd be impossible for someone to order either kit from china without having built them before, they're pretty important the first time around.

One thing I did do was use the Spite heads for most of the Revenants instead of the Tree ones, I think it fits the theme a bit better, as well as making simplifying painting decisions a lot.


TheDraconicLord wrote:They may be somewhat static, but damn, you made them look so freakin' good!

Well, if you really need, you can cut the branch with the skeleton and add some other kind of identification. Maybe the leaders are the only ones bloody? Should be flame start to become weaker and weaker the "older" they get?


Thanks! And yeah, I'll see the state of the dryads when I get them, worst case I'll probably do some cutting; less fire can easily be misinterpreted as "not finished"

Master Azalle wrote:great work on the dryads! love the color scheme brother


evildrcheese wrote:Nice work on the Dryads, they look awesome!

EDC


amazingturtles wrote:The faces really do give that sense of still having the fire inside them!


Thanks guys, means a lot

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I love this scheme! They are truly menacing.
What is the chance to see an update any time soon?

 
   
 
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