Thanks to all for yours appreciations and good reviews! I really appreciate them!
how on earth did you do it on such tiny models? I can barely paint eyes on my warhawks, much less paint delicate spirals on their cloaks!
Its practice only. I have been painting warhammer for six years or something near that. Painting thin freehands is not so hard, as you think. You need only three things for it – time, inspiration and your will to implement this.
I would like to give some tips, but I don’t know what exactly you want to know. Also, unfortunately I feel my English isn’t enough well to explain some paint and sculpt “secrets” or describe the process of creation correctly. So I can be able not to answer some question in full, or it may be hard for me. But I will try, of course.
how did you make the things (ALL OF THEM), what materials etc. I would love a WIP shot of conversion, creation or painting.
Well, I have some WIP models, so I can do some photos.
Materials, which I use for sculpt are Tamiya epoxy putty and standard yellow-grey Milliput, that’s all.
Did you draw inspiration from Princess Mononoke?
Shame on me, I but don't know, who is it, but I will google it. Thanks for your advice.
What did inspire me? Generally it was my own imagination and my own seeing of wood elves. I don’t like a large part of our current background, which relate with angry of forest spirits, their dark souls, fury of all asrai and killings of all non-asrai. They don’t look like a fantasy forces of order, I think. That’s why I refused from buying GW forest spirit models because they really look evil. After I had realized I want to collect wood elves few years ago, I decided to create them much better and kinder.
Maybe, there is also some influence of WarCraft III style (I was fan of it in my youth, and I still like it), but not very strong, I think.
But in case of little earth elemental, I was inspired by one old film – “Merlin” with Sam Neill. There was one moment, when Merlin left the Sword into the stone. Then it was seen, that the “stone” was in fact a fist of huge stone giant. This scene and image of that giant inspired me to create several model in “earth creature” style. It will be several more such creatures in my army – treekin, treeman, and maybe branchwraith. First model of three (perhaps) treekin was finished recently, but it is still unpainted. I can do the photo of unpainted model, if you want.
What about showing more photos of my entire army, unfortunately I haven’t huge collection yet. In fact I already show most of my works : ( Sculpting and painting models of such quality usually takes a lot of time. For example, I spent near 8 hours to paint 1 archer.
I have a lot of ideas and a lot of unpainted and unassembled minis include rare and old figures, but now I really have not a lot of free time to work with them. For example, I am filled with idea of different centaur heroes, which will count as wild rider highborn/noble on great stage and centaur-druid which will count as glamourwave mage on steed or unicorn. But unfortunately, I don’t know when I will have time to make them.
But, in few days I will show some more models, including WIP, as I have said above.
