From the Dark Paths and Dappled Glades

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From the Dark Paths and Dappled Glades

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This is where I'm going to be posting my latest painting efforts. I'm a pretty slow painter so don't think it'll be update that frequently, but having said that I'm feeling pretty enthused by the return of the Tree Spirits in AoS (sacrilege!), something which had really disappointed me about the 8th edition book. So to start, here is my Treeman Ancient which I purchased as a pre-order when the new WE were released (told you I was a slow painter!)ImageImageImageImageImageImage
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Nice! Care to tell what products you used for basing? :)
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Villo wrote:Nice! Care to tell what products you used for basing? :)
Lol, a mutual appreciation society!

There's various stuff on the base, the mushrooms are home made, very easy to do from green stuff, as are the croziers of the fern. The fern leaves and some of the static grass are GW products. The grass with the white flowers is from Army Painter. The tall brown grass and the larger pink flowers are from a plant I grow in my garden called Astrantia. I dry the flowers and break them apart into their constituent parts to use on the bases.
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Beautiful, really one of the best I've seen and really makes me want to buy this model that otherwise I've not been totally keen on the aesthetics of.

The palette you've chosen works really well, simple yet really effective, I especially love the beard and other green growths.

The base is simply beautiful and I love the little spites colours.

Great work.
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Samoht wrote:Beautiful, really one of the best I've seen and really makes me want to buy this model that otherwise I've not been totally keen on the aesthetics of.

The palette you've chosen works really well, simple yet really effective, I especially love the beard and other green growths.

The base is simply beautiful and I love the little spites colours.

Great work.
That's very kind of you [emoji5]️

As I was saying on one of the other threads I've purposely gone for a more natural, limited palette. It was a lot of work tho. It may be a while before I take on such a big model again let alone two or three of them!
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Very nice ancient, and a very very cool and interesting base. I'll steel some ideas from that one shurely
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Baardah wrote:Very nice ancient, and a very very cool and interesting base. I'll steel some ideas from that one shurely
Thank you for the compliments Baardah. Feel free to 'borrow with pride'. [emoji18]
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Your bases are fantastic!
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henrypmiller wrote:Your bases are fantastic!
Thank you Henry. I do enjoy basing models it's like the little treat at the end of all the hard work[emoji18]
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Love this. The standard of work is impeccable. Look forward to more!
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Gladelord Berenthor wrote:Love this. The standard of work is impeccable. Look forward to more!
Thank you[emoji15] I played a game of AoS as Sylvaneth the other week and used dual branchwraiths. They were really rather good so I'm just painting up a couple of models to use. The first is Drycha the second is a old metal Dryad. They'll be next up on here :-)
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Keep up the good work!
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Beautiful, what a treat for your opponent :D :thumbsup:
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I suppose it is one way to keep your treeman alive that I have not yet considered.

Paint him so beautifully that the opponent can't make himself to take him off the board.
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Missed it before ...

A really well painted Treeman ! :thumbsup:
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