Second Dryad Unit - Finished

Believe it or not, but I actually got the time to finish my Dryads today. Painted a total of seven Dryads, took me about 7 hours. I must say that I’m pretty happy with the result. The highlighting of the old bark turned out great and I think the leaves painted with Kommando Khaki are a nice contrast to the other Dryads Snot Green.

So without further wait here they are!

Thought I should add a picture with all that I have painted so far, the quality of the photo is a bit poor will try to take a new with natural light tomorrow.

Three Dryads from the New Unit

Here it is another update on my new unit of Dryads. 

Looked over my work with a fresh eye, after a good night’s sleep, and realized that it didn’t cut it. The color of the leaves didn’t feel right and the old bark needed a bit of love as well. So I redid my work and also painted another two models. 

Enjoy!

Second Dryad Theme - Some Details

Added some detail, colored the leaves and added some color to the old bark. Not 100% happy with the result but I like the color theme. Have to see the result once I paint a couple more and place them side by side.

Second Dryad Theme - Highlights

So looked around my colors and selected my Dark Flesh and my Blazing Orange for highlights. Mixed them together and watered it down to a milky texture. Then I simply washed the whole model. 

However this didn’t really produce the result I was after (it still looked too much like a simple basecoat). So I picked up my now trusted drybrush, removed almost all the paint from the brush and added another layer of highlight using Scorched Brown.

This result was produced,

Second Dryad Theme - Basecoat

Basecoated one of the Dryads with Vermin Brown. I think it will prove to be a good starting color for my orange theme.

Second Dryad Unit - Leaf Squadron

Decided that I would not like all of my Dryads to be too similar. And looking towards the future I guess I will be using my Dryads in either units of 8 or 12, because of this I made the decision to paint my 24 Dryads in three different themes.

Because it was my first time assembling Dryads, my first unit turned out a bit funny. I managed to reverse the second headpiece of all eight models. This lead to them being more “branchy” and less “leafy”.  This I think will only enhance the appearance of my army as a whole, due to the fact that I will have one unit of Dryads that look a bit less lively and have a slightly different head structure. 

So for my second unit of Dryads I have gone for the “more leaves” approach. Meaning I have selected headpieces with leaves for all eight of them.

I will also try to get a bit of an orange theme for these ones, painting the leaves orange, gray, black for contrast.

So here they are all sprayed with Chaos Black,

The New Addition - First Unit of Eight Dryads

So after my first try at painting miniatures in a very long time I felt like trying out something new. I glued 8 Dryads together and sprayed them black. Painted them up using a wide mix of brown and green colors, took me about 20 hours over the space of four days.

Here’s the result,

And the four I'm most happy about, mainly because they have some more details to paint, separating them from the rest of the unit.

I’m still a sapling when it comes to painting and any criticism is very much welcomed. 

For the record, 

  I used no watered down colors

  I didn’t mix any colors

  I only used dry-brushing techniques after the initial undercoat.