[My sylvaneth project]

11 hours ago, Double Misfire said:

Really great subtle use of the Shattered Dominion bases on the dryads. I've been tempted to move my dwarfs over to them for a while and you may just have won me over.  

I had to go a few rounds with myself before trying this. I felt at first that the SD bases didn't fit sylvaneth at all, but I decided to try and capture the idea of the realm of life, or alarielles will expanding where the Sylvaneth march...so i covered parts of the bases with texture paint. The idea is that vibrant life is slowly taking over the debris of lost civilizations. With life energy bursting through the cracks in the earth like tiny rivers...

[My sylvaneth project]

More dryads and another converted branchwytch...

[The Rumour Thread]

I've seen guesses of that staff head being from a slaneesh worshiping aelf. And if that is true, that they have merged aelf and slaneesh and freakin rage quit all over again...

[My sylvaneth project]

Rebased and freshened up paint job on a unit of dryads

[My sylvaneth project]

Repaint of my treelord ancient. The previous paintjob, was too much going on. Too many different colors etc. so I tried to tone it down a bit as I think the Sylvaneth has so much detail on the models that overdoing it in colors just makes it "too much"

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Thanks. I bought my second treelord ancient the other day, and asembled him in A different pose to my other one. So now I'm looking forward to paint it. 

On my to do list for this project:

assemble and paint 32 dryads

16 dryads to rebase

paint bases for 2 tree lords and an ancient

Paint 3 kurnoth hunters with scythes 

paint 10 tree revenants

Paint drycha

finish painting Allarielle

rebase 2 branchwraiths

paint and build 2nd brancwytch

so maybe I'll be finished by 2021....

i also want to have 5 more sons of durthu....just for the hell of it...

[My sylvaneth project]

Thanks for kind words. The bases are made as follows. 

Citadel texture paints in "blothces" on the base. Color doesn't matter as I paint over it afterwords. I try to apply it so that there are gaps between each block of texture paint as to create rivers or pools of flat base in between.

I then paint some blotches with incubi darkness and highlight with dry brushing by mixing in fenrisian grey. I finish with pure fenrisian grey. 

Other blotches I paint with death world forest and highlight by mixing in ogryn camo up til pure ogryn camo 

then for the "rivers of energy" I use sotek green and then temple guard blue leaving the dark color on the edges. I then mix temple guard blue 50:50 with white and paint thin lightning streaks. These I highlight with pure white. 

To finish off I place various tufts on the base and some clump foiliage

for larger bases I use cork or bits of pine-bark as stones

[My sylvaneth project]

Some quick shots of my sylvaneth so far...

i know the base for my spirit of durthu is to small, but I don't paint for gaming, so I guess it doesn't matter