Andrea’s Dryads, the Wood Elves army Special Branch

 November’s quota: the Dryads unit (210 pts)

This is not the first time I painted this sculpts, as in my first Wood Elves army (1996-1999) the Dryads unit has a major role. Now, after 20 years, 6 new Dryads and a different way to paint. Back in the ’96 I used to paint these minis with a massive use of dry-brush; this time I opted for a different approach. 

I started with a zenithal-like priming, basecoat entirely black and then a thin layer of white primer given by a single direction. 

I hoped the result would have been a paint with a light direction. Well, I had to say the hoped light effect is not particularly evident (uhm… ok, it is not evident at all!). Anyway I am quite happy with paint job.

Another point is the base: contrary to my standards, consisting of golf course-like green grass bases, this time I used some kind of synthetic foliage from railway models. This is a classical green foliage intermingled with yellow/red/blue spots. Beside giving more color to the whole thing with respect to my former standards, it looks as being more like a forest floor.

Next month: the spearmen unit and four wardancers (coming soon). I’ll try to obtain more from the zenithal-like priming ;-)