This is the very first Games Workshop miniature I painted. At the time I didn’t even own GW paints, instead I had one paint brush and a set of eight bottles of acrylic paint, meant for painting models (can’t remember the brand) which consisted of black, white, black primer, dark green (as you can see on the base of the treeman), mid brown, mid (slightly pastely) red, mid blue and yellow. Still have some of the green and brown and almost all the red, blue and yellow.
At any rate my limited palette of paint resulted in the the colours shown. I think it closely resembles the GW colour scheme at the time for this model despite needing to mix almost every colour, something I don’t have much of an eye for. I did make the rookie mistake of adding white to everything for highlighting which washes out some of the colours. Without any wash to go back over (or no real understanding at the time of how to make one) the white highlighted greens and yellows and to a lesser degree blacks and browns look a little strange. Also my yellow which would normally have been more of a bleached bone colour is very yellow. All in all though I’m fairly pleased with it. Was the first time I’d drybrushed too, which was a bit of a challenge to my painting later on with only the one brush to be painting with and drybrushing.
I could fix it up now but I like to keep it this way as I do most of my models as something of a historical record of my painting skill at a given time.
I’d also just like to point out that this treeman alone has been a champion in almost every single game he has played. He’s a killing machine and immensely durable, like a bloody flax bush. That would be an interesting customisation.
