Vampiress Diorama

[kingulrikflamebear]

This, is my latest work - only my second diorama too [my first being the Night Lord Apothecary]. I chose to work on this because it was different than what I normally do, being taller less hairy than a dwarf and rather less armoured than a space marine. I also wanted to do something a bit special and different. This was achieved mainly with the base, as you'll see.

I would give you a run down of what I've used on her and such, but I never take note and use whatever comes to mind and sometimes go back and rework parts at times depending on advice and so forth. But.. for the base, I used milliput extensively. I used a large fantasy monster base and a cavalry base which I shaved down the edges as much as possible then added a layer of milliput. I embedded the gravestones then taking the vampire glued to her base I pushed her in and cut out the shape to fit her in. Then adding sand I then drybrushed it various browns and greens before adding a layer of flock and a bit of static grass near the base of the gravestones.

I gave her pale skin but with a purple wash - though I had to highlight again and the purple is less visible now. The green was worked up from VGC Olive Green and mixed with various greens to get a nice dark green, highlights were done with Rotting Flesh. The red bodice was started from a Dark Flesh and Bestial Brown base, I added in various red shades for latter layers and highlights. The leggings were green but I changed them to a light brown which works much better, the staff was done greys - was going for a sort of marble look but failed. Though it worked out alright. The gold worked alright, wasn't sure about the top of her head but it worked ok. I did a little bit of freehand on her sleeves, was going for a Fleur De Lys but I need to work better at freehand,

Anyway, the pictures... Two; Vampire and then the base.





KU

[charley1968]

Excellent painting on the mini!
IMO would it have ben better to show graves(=sand) instead overgrown graves, but that's a matter of taste...all in all nice little dio!

[Tim C]

I like it very clean painting, I do think the gravestones ar a little too clean but that doesn't take away what a good job you have made of the whole piece.

[mutantpotato]

The diorama is awesome. The paintjob is great and I don't have much critisism, except that the green clothing may need a little more highlight.

The whole diorama itself is great, and the scene/idea is really cool. Though the base looks a bit uneven, and you can see the spot where the base ends and the putty begins. That area should be smooth, and you should not be able to see the transition between the base and the putty. The base drag the diorama down a bit, but overall it's a awesome diorama ;D

[kingulrikflamebear]

Yeah, it's been mentioned about the base. If I had thought more then it would have been altered before I started to paint, something to remember for next time.

The green is actually highlighted better but the pictures are darker than I have liked, I re-dressed this problem when someone pointed it out before and added an extra highlight. But yes, in this picture is is looking flatter than it is.

Tim - Yes, the graves I just did grey and one a little more sandy. I am going to have to look more at making stone look old and worn before I do something like this again.

KU

[racssirt]

I remember this! I saw this in WIP a while ago and now it is finished it looks brilliant! Excellent work mate!

[jabberwocky]

Very nice work on this one, KU. You might add just a small bit of flock to some of the crack to help make it look overgrown.

[menace]

Cool painting style well executed on the mini, i agree with the other comments, the base is not to the same level. You could dirty up the stonework in a few minutes with random glazes of very thin catachan green and scorched earth, try to blob it on and use the next colour b4 the 1st is dry so they bleed into each other. Some longer grass here and there and a bit of scatter might make the scene less 'tidy'!

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