#tomb banshee

Esta muchacha fue muy agradecida de pintar. No conseguí darle la tonalidad que venía en la foto pero en una horita estaba lista.

Finally, over a year since I bought Soul Wars, my 1000p Nighthaunt army is finished with some banshees.

Like most Nighthaunt minis, I enjoyed painting them, except for the scenic base. I found the overgrown stone and plants hard to do. The minis also gave me the opportunity to try some combinations I’m want to use elsewhere. One is the skin, which is skin Flayed One Flesh - Nuln Oil - Palid Wych Flesh. The corsets are Abaddon Black dry brushed with Mephiston Red and covered with Carroburg Crimson. I think both combinations worked well, and I’m looking forward to using them again. I also worked on my marble technique by making marble tombstones, though they aren’t that visible on the photos.

Stay tuned for photos of the whole army.

For anyone who's interested, I reckon I'm going to use some of GW's LotR figures for my 'Tomb Banshees'.

I'm pretty sure no-one will have any issues with this, the only thing they're likely to be confused with is Wraiths, and the difference will soon become clear when my opponent's knights begin collapsing dead in their saddles from hearing them scream :P Also, the GW Ringwraith models are pretty damn cool as well, might be getting some of those to use as Cairn Wraiths.

As I paint the army, I'm leaning more to an army of ancient warriors raised from their eternal rest... I do like the stock VC Banshee and Wraith models, but's there's only one of each of them, and these two chaps really have the ancient warrior look going for them!

Looking at the models, I'm thinking of doing matching corroded armour to the Grave Guard with some rusted metal details. Then I might aim for a much greyer look to the cloth, so it's less blue than they appear here.

I can picture the resting metal of the armour heaped in a pile in a tomb with the Grave Guard, before lifting itself up as the Banshee appears within it...

...is bad, because the other guy gets all the credit, right?

Seriously though, wondering whether anyone has any good ideas for painting ghosts (that I could use for Tomb Banshees, Spirit Hosts, etc.)? At the simplest level, I thought a simple white undercoat with a blue or green wash would work, but I could maybe stretch to something more exciting… I have read about people doing their models in reverse, so they undercoat white and highlight grey to get a creepy ethereal feel.