Gray Elf Dualist
There's not a whole lot to say about this older model I painted what now seems like ages ago. He's another one of the rather 2-dimensional Chainmail sculpts that lack much depth. I mostly drybrushed the black areas but the green sash on this figure was one of my first ever attempts at highlighting via layering.
The hair was another experiment on my part. I initially painted it black and higlighted it with drybrushing up almost to white. After that I stained the entire thing with a mix of the old GW Flesh Wash and brown paint to create a reddish brown hair color. Later refined the technique a bit to use it elsewhere in my collection.
This was another model from the era of craft paint metallics and it really shows on the sword blades.
- Manufacturer & Line: Wizards of the Coast - Chainmail
- Mini Name: Ravilla Gray Elf Duelist
- Painted: 2002
Wood Elf Ranger
Back when Wizards of the Coast was releasing Chainmail, the metal unpainted non-collectable precursor to D&D Miniatures, their price point was low enough that I picked up a few figures to use in RPGs and the like. Back then I had just started painting and I was using the Wood Elves (this one and the Scout) to work on my basic techniques. At the time I was really happy with how the Ranger here turned out; particularly my first successful layering on the inside of the cloak and the highlighting on the back of the cloak.
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Wood Elf Scout
Back when Wizards of the Coast was releasing Chainmail, the metal unpainted non-collectable precursor to D&D Miniatures, their price point was low enough that I picked up a few figures to use in RPGs and the like. Back then I had just started painting and I was using the Wood Elves (this one and the Ranger) to work on some basic painting techniques. The Scout didn't turn out nearly as well as the ranger did.
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Avatar of Menoth
Wielder of the dreaded butter knife of Menoth, the Avatar was a fun jack to paint. I chose to do more of my tannish white color on this as opposed to the purple armored plates I usually do on my warjacks to make it stand out from its brethren on the gaming table. Because I wanted the plates to look almost white I couldn't shade them too darkly. As a result the effect it subtle but I think that adds to the overall effect. The gradient is most evident on the sides pictures on the upper body and the forearms.
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Valdarynn, Arch Mage
I painted Valdarynn up for an arcanist character in the rotating-GM role-playing campaign that I was in in late '09. I went with a bright fantasy-esque fiery theme for this figure to match his flavor of magic and his temper. I had initially painted his inner robe yellow but it looked too much like a rain slicker. I repainted it in the gray you see here to try and evoke a little smoke to the robe's fiery color.
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Fire of Salvation
The Fire of Salvation sat on my painting desk for about a year and a half before I finally completed it. I never really felt the desire to field him in Warmachine in Mk I and painting yet another warjack as just tedious so work slowed to a crawl. I finished him up just in time for MkII, where he got a nice little boost.
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Ardynn D’Narg, Elven Fighter Mage
Ardynn is yet another miniature inspired by a character in my Earthdawn campaign- this time an NPC Warrior/Nethermancer. I wanted to stay away from the stereotypical "necromancer black" though so decided to use a few different blues as the miniature's primary color.
Castigator
I modeled the Castigator's paint job after my Reckoner, but I'm relatively disappointed in the end result of the Castigator. The shading on the white areas is smooth but they're just not dark enough to stand out sufficiently in my mind. It's an attractive sculpt but I just wasn't quite as happy with the end result as I could have been. Still, with the big backlog of miniatures I'm trying to get through I decided to call it close enough.
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Alaine, Female Paladin
My wife picked this miniature out to represent her Earthdawn character - a Dinganni Warrior. The Dinganni are a darker skinned people, so the skintone on this one is a little darker than what I usually do.
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Revenger
I started this Revenger soon after the Repenter was completed. I decided to switch up the color scheme across the upper body of the miniature for a bit of variety, and it turned out fairly well. Taking what I had learned from the Repenter, I decided on a more subtle highlighting on the 'hood' and shoulder pieces on this figure. Unfortunately most of the highlighting wound up being washed out during photographing the mini.
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