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Another miniature by Games Workshop. Even though chaos creatures like beastmen are usually shown in bright, clashing colors by GW, I still chose a natural color scheme. I think this fits better with the frayed look of the goatmanīs robe. |
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Since dark elves are usually considered evil, I put this one in the monster category. Actually drow are tricky to paint: Black skin and white hair, both colors which are difficult to shade and highlight. This figure (Ral Partha) was my first attempt at this combination. Later miniatures had dark blue skin, which proved more effective than this almost flat black. |
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This miniature (Ral Partha) is a Githzerai, a humanoid evil race from the AD&D Universe. I used special care when shading this one, notice how the shades and highlights are continued on the decorative border of the coat? This makes them stick out more and the whole figure look more three dimensional. |
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Another Ral Partha miniature this one is a gnoll, a hyena headed humanoid ready to attack. |
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This miniature is an old GW Halforc. I have used it in my games for a very ugly human warrior though. I love to paint faces, especially interesting ones like this one, and often spend more time on the face of a miniature than on the rest. |
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Another GW Humanoid, this one was painted in (for me) unusually bright colors. The effect is sort of shocking, esepecially among my otherwise somber brown and green figures. |
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Another Ral Partha Monster, the slimy effect on this mind flayer was created by adding a thin wash of a pearl effect color and using clear varnish. |
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Mummies are one of the standard monsters who also do not offer too many different options for painting them. This GW mummy was easyly painted by using standard techniques like inking and drybrushing over the whole miniature, adding some tiny detail on where the eye and the toes peek out of the folds. |
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This Nazgul by Mithril was an expermient for shading. In this case I did not blend the different shades like I usually do, but rather applied several layers of straight lines. This makes the miniature appear as if it had been drawn with crayons. It is an interesting effect, though it doesnīt show very well in this picture. |
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This GW miniature was one of my first experiments with dark brown skin. Though difficult to see on the picture, I was quite satisfied with the result. |
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This miniature (Reaper Miniaturs) could also be grouped among the characters section, but it is so incredibly ugly... |
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This is a miniature from the German company Metal Magic. The inspiration for the color scheme was taken from the cover of TSRīs "Van Richtenīs Guide to Vampires". |
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A typical GW zombie. One thing that I like about zombies is, that you can vary the color scheme tremendously. All shades of the rainbow can beleivably show up on such a rotting monster. The thing I dislike about them is that, even with this color variation, they still somehow always look the same. |
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Another zombie, this one a plastic miniature from the Hero Quest game by GW. |
