Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Glade Riders (I)

Finally, the first unit I have finished!
These are 6 Glade Riders with music, a unit that is practically in all of the lists I play.
I chose to paint them first because I paint horses and riders separately and therefore transporting them is a pain until they are fully painted.
I am relatively happy with the result but there are lots of things I should have done different. To begin with, spending less time in these! The en result is not as good as it should be for the amount of time I spent on them. I blame my poor eyesight and lack of focus lately.
In addition, I have been experimenting a lot with different styles, techniques and ways to approach these figures as they are the first elves I ever paint. I can clearly see my painting style is better suited for something more grimdark.
In addition, I bought these second hand and I did not realize that at the time, but they were not in the best condition. They have scratches and broken pieces and despite my best efforts, I still failed to notice a few areas that I did not scrape properly and you can notice all of these imperfections.
Nevermind now, because they are painted and ready for battle!

The colours are exactly the ones I posted before. The only change is that I tried to apply more "texture" to the clothes by simulating leaves or other interesting patterns instead of plain highlights. I am not entirely sure if the end result is good or just weird. Need to think more about it. In addition, I decided to skip a few steps and use plain colours from the pot instead of mixing and creating so many intermediate tones, as otherwise I was taking even longer to paint these.










Monday, 28 July 2025

Archers (I)

I finally had the time to go ahead and finish the first test model by adding the last bits of grass to it. Just the first one to test some colours and highlights. I will keep on tweaking the style as I paint more of these.