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Wood Elves Durthu

So I got this fellow for my birthday and was eager to paint him and just as eager not to mess it up.  Obviously putting  paint on the figure was a good start on the way to messing it up so I was a bit torn.  At a $113 doing a poor job would be a disappointment difficult to accept.  Anyway having it sit in a box forever would also be a shame so I stuck it together and primed it.

I recently changed my superglue from some rubbish GW stuff to some traditional salleys glue.  The later sticks fast on contact and is super strong unlike the GW stuff which has become weak and tacky.  Unfortunately this meant that when I stuck it together I didn’t have much time to position it and alas the sword and the head aren’t quite where I would have like them to be.  Rectifying this mistake would have required a saw and some greenstuff, and I wasn’t prepared to go there in light of my desire not to mess the figure up, wimp I know.

it is a beautiful model very three dimensional which made it tricky to paint, although not as bad as I thought it might be.  It’s also surprisingly durable, though I still managed to break of a bit of a branch and the longer of the two splintered pieces of wood sticking out his elbow.

I’ve tried to faithfully reproduce the paint scheme even though I have few of the colours and was constantly mixing paint as a result.  Wasn’t sure about the blue, still not to be honest.  Was tempted to make the blue mostly grey but struggled to get it right so just went with the blue.  Anyway very happy with the result, it is a stunning piece and whatever you think of the colour scheme it is a striking piece and I believe/hope that I’ve done it justice.

(hmm I think the blue looks even bluer in the picture too :-\)

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Treeman (two) – Durthu

Treeman (two)

My second treeman, the old Wood Elves Special Character Durthu.  Painted a little while after my first treeman again to the Games Workshop colour scheme.  This however is replete with my first conversion job which consists of fixing his arm in place as if he were shaking his fist and a bit of metal flashing/sprue glued to that fist to represent him giving the finger/bird.  Ok it’s pretty rubbish since it doesn’t really look like his other fingers and his middle finger still remains bunched up in his fist.  It was a joke but despite many times thinking I should remove it I just can’t bring myself to do so.

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Treeman

Treeman (one)

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.