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Hi all, Spent the last three evenings painting this little archer from Games Workshop's Direchasm box. She's a member of the Lumineth Realm Lords who are a re-invention of the Warhammer High Elves and have some really nice flowing sculpts with quite a bit of Japanese inspiration. I tried to be neat and tidy but also not go too far as I have a couple of units of figures to paint. The face has suffered as a result (plus I find painting into the open helmet really difficult anyway) but I'm pretty happy with the rest. The colours are all warm for the figure to reflect the sunlight in the Realm of Hysh, and the base is mostly cool as a contrast. Although I let some yellow creep in there for sun again. Recipes, imperfectly remembered and mainly for my future reference, applied over white primer: * Skin: Big mess! Try something else. * White cloth: 1:2 Skeleton Horde & Contrast Medium, highlighted with Wraithbone & Medium, trimmed with white ink. Glazed with ~1:4 Skeleton Horde & Medium. * Red cords: Blood Angels Red, highlighted with Fire Dragon Bright, 1:1 Fire Dragon Bright & Dorn Yellow, Dorn Yellow. Glazed with ~1:4 Blood Angels Red & Medium. Knots glazed with ~1:2. * Green cloth: Militarum Green, highlighted with Elysian Green, 1:1 Elysian Green & Dorn Yellow. Glazed with ~1:6 Warpstone Glow & Medium (I think!) * Green tassels and fletchings: Creed Camo, highlighted as above, glazed with ~1:4 Warpstone Glow and knots glazed with Creed Camo. * Soft leather: 1:1 Aggaros Dunes & Medium, highlighted with Dorn Yellow, recesses shaded with Snakebite Leather, glazed with ~1:4 Iyanden Yellow & Medium. * Dark leather: Cygor Brown, highlight (streak/stipple) with Skrag Brown and Dorn Yellow. Glaze (streak) with Snakebite Leather, Cygor Brown. * Bowstrings: 1:1:3 Iyanden Yellow, Skeleton Horde & Medium. Glaze knots and ends with Skeleton Horde. * Wood: Snakebite Leather, edge highlight with Dorn Yellow, Wraithbone, White Ink. Glaze with ~1:3 Iyanden Yellow and Medium, Glaze base with ~1:2 Gryph Hound Orange & Medium. * Bronzey metal: Base with Wyldwood before varnishing. Base with Runelord Brass. Shade with Cryptek Armourshade Gloss. Layer Runelord Brass and then Canoptek Alloy. Run Agrax Earthshade around the edges to kill the gloss there. Paint/highlight trim with Canoptek Alloy, then 1:1 Moonstone Alchemy & Citrine Alchemy (Scale75). Add top highlights with White Alchemy. * Gold metal: Base with Wyldwood as above. Base with Viking Gold (Scale75) avoiding recesses. Highlight with Citrine Alchemy and blend with Elven Gold. * Gems: Base with Gore-Grunta Fur, build up base with Skrag Brown and Dorn Yellow. Darken top with Cygor Brown, dot with white ink. * Rocks: Base with Apothecary White, blend Gryph-Charger Grey into shadows. Glaze areas with ~1:4 Volupus Pink & Medium. Glaze areas with ~1:4 Iyanden Yellow & Medium. Spot glazes with stronger tones. Drybrush Celestra Grey, Drybrush White Ink. Run Gryph Charger Grey into cracks. Highlight Cracks with white ink. * Earth: Base with Zandri Dust. Wash Gryphonne Sepia, taking this up the rocks a bit. Drybrush Zandri Dust and Flayed One Flesh. Interestingly Posh Spice Elf was a lot quicker to paint than the simple-seeming Scary Elf. Although Scary Elf's face is actually decent, I'm sure I spent more time there. Cheers, Will