The Red Book of the Elf King - miniatures - Treeman scratch build finished

 

Here's the painted up treeman. I think he likely needs more highlighting but the energy is low from work....

Finished these "The Red Book of the Elf King" sculpts too. They're absolute stunnas, really nice to paint even if those spears are way too delicate....

The basing is pretty shonky here, I'll need to sort that eventually....

I bought this "Lucid-eye" game a while ago and have never gotten around to playing it. It should be at least "good", as it is a Steve Priestly designed game. I'll get there. The elf lore is very old school, very old-magicky and weird which is an approach I really liked. 

These were my last Elves to paint for now and the last of my pressing backlog....

delirium treemens - Scratch-building a monster

 

Perhaps not the acute alcohol poisoning that my title suggests, but painting so many miniatures in one month is pretty tiring. So why not scratch-build monster on top of that?

Anyway I've never scratch-built a large figure, so I thought I'd do just that with a large character - a Tree monster.

A humble enough start - a foamboard torso mannequin to 'hang' the sculpted parts from.

Greenstuff more form to it...

After leaving it to dry at each stage, as handling it turns previous work to mush, start applying detail to each limb. I was working with a very specific form in mind so didn't need sketches to work to.

Work in the first suggestions of a face

Start building hands and filching parts from my GW stuff...

Bark is prettyy forgiving to simulate in greenstuff so the rather skronky detail to texture doesn't detract too badly imo. Prime the bugger.

Orc for scale ( he was to hand.)

I have actually painted it, but as of the time of writing i have no photos.