Tag: forest spirit

Here are my five old school Dryads.  Since each is quite individual and there is only five of them I thought I’d post them all up.  Back in the day they cost a fair bit because they were bigger than your average man and were metal, so only had five.  Anway since they were essentially just little treeman I was able to take what I learnt from painting them to the Dryads.  Which is to say I painted things then drybrushed, which on such a heavily textured figure is very effective.  These are some of the first warhammer figures I ever painted.

Three of my 12 ‘new school’ painted dryads.  I have another 12 unpainted and 5 painted but ‘old school’ dryads.  Paint scheme is the generic brown.  I’ve looked at all the other schemes that people have used but I still think this looks the best, though I’m tempted to try something else on the next 12.  I tried to drybrush them but had to give up for several reasons and highlight them normally.  One because the limbs are so smooth you just end up painting them rather than picking up the lifted areas, and then of course you get that chalky messy look that you can get with drybrushing.  And two because the blighters are so thin in places you run a serious risk of breaking them if you are a little absent minded and place to much pressure on them.   I also left the eyes white because well, I think it looks better than painting them red or yellow.  White stands out and looks equally demonic.