Friday, September 21, 2018

Neglected Model September: Mistweaver Saih

For Azazel's Neglected Model September Hobby Challenge, I'm working on finishing up my Silver Tower boxed set, which I halfway painted within a couple of days of getting it, and then never put brush to it since. First one finished is the Mistweaver Saih:


I decided to go for a very restricted palette here, using only light greys, off-whites, and the brightest silver I have. I wanted to really double down on the idea that she can just fade into the mist, and be effectively invisible in there.

I also decided to go with a more covering garment, so she's got those little blades or trinkets or whatever they are dangling from her sleeves rather than being extreme piercings.

You're going to notice some variation in the bases as we go through these. My original plan was to do them all like this, maybe paint in some tiles and cracks, but basically do something just painted, that would look like it could be flooring in the Silver Tower. The square bases tied in to that, being flagstone-shaped. Then GW brought out rules for a bunch of them to be used in AoS and/or 40K Armies that I have. So many of those got re-based on round bases, and have sand and turf and such. I still really don't know if I'm going to unify them all or not, and if I do, which way I'm likely to go with it.

Most of the other Heroes and the Pink and Blue Horrors are coming along pretty nicely, so I'll hopefully have them ready to photograph in a few days, and post shortly after that. I've also got another post in the works, about some third party Models I found for Fiends of Slaanesh and Flesh Hounds. One or the other of those should be up fairly soon. Until then, y'all have a good one, y'hear!

8 comments:

  1. That is very cool - The subtle color variations really sell it. I dig how she turned out!

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    1. Thanks! She was an experiment, but unlike some, she was a successful one!

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  2. Damn, I promised myself I'd get round to painting my Silver Tower. Such a great set of miniatures. I thought I was mad, painting a miniature the colour of pewter but I think you might beat me with a mist coloured one. Good work!

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    1. Thanks! Some of my Space Wolves actually look even more ridiculous, since the grey I use for them is a very close match to the standard Citadel plastic, so they're pretty close to looking like I just painted the metal and red and such right over the bare plastic ;)

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    2. Oh no! I bet that caused a furore at any tournaments you attended with outraged opponents shouting, "That is not 3 colour legal, sir!"

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    3. When you look closely, it's clear enough that they're painted properly. But when the old Codex grey gets applied just so, it even matches the shine of the bare plastic.

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  3. Very nice so far - looking very ethereal there.

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    1. Thanks! I'm really happy with how she came out.

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