Brilliant little Chaos Dwarf from Diehard (https://diehardminiatures.com/product/sigvald-the-terrible-fantasy-chaos-dwarf/) and a joy to paint from start to finish. I wanted him to feel proud, but a touch dishevelled, dragging himself through a forest and getting dirty, but doing his best to keep his beautiful axe in good condition.
- Axe. The star of the show for me, and I'm ridiculously pleased with it. Armour Brown basecoat then a lot of highlighting up with a combination of Ochre and Ice Yellow. In a couple of places there's a bit of the Vermillion Red from the cloak added to the Ochre to give a gentle orange reflection from the cloak, and provide visual interest.
- Horns. Leather Brown with some Deck Tan added for edge highlights. Very simple. Not much to say here other than I don't enjoy painting horns.
- Metallics. Dark Sea Blue highlighted with Greenish White. Yes, I quite like this colour on projects this year! Darkest areas have some of the Vermillion Red or Black added just to add variety of colour.
- Cloak. Vermillion Red and exaggerated shadow with the Dark Sea Blue, and some Sunny Skin Tone mixed in for the edges. There's a lot of Wyldwood brown dabbed on for mud, then nearer the bottom I've stippled some Leather Brown to read as dried mud.
This is a WIP shot of the axe blade but I'm so pleased with it that I wanted to show it off with a little more magnification. Thanks for indulging me. Iit also shows off the gloves a little better where the range of colours is more evident.
It's bigger than the old Warhammer model that clearly inspired the sculpt, Khazek Doomlord, and that's quite helpful because all the features get that little bit more space to paint detail. So the gloves can have edges to sell the NMM effect, and the revised axe blade was a great improvement.
