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Naida
Naida means water nymph. My second mini from the Reaper familar pack, I painted this for my girlfriend. This mini is the reason I bought the pack in the first place, I loved the evil look of this little fairy. My first attempt at the wings was a disaster, just couldn't get it to look good, I realised I was trying to put too many colours in far too small a space. So for the first time in a long while I stripped it and started again. If you have ever tried using ink washes you may have found that sometimes they do funny things, like leave the paint on the highest parts and not the recesses. I wanted to get this effect where the recesses of the wings represented the thinnest parts, and would thus be the lightest (because they were semi-transparent). So I painted the wings yellow and added a red ink wash, hoping the ink would do what I normally don't want it to do, luckily it behaved perfectly, giving me this weird yellowy-orangy-red effect. I then took midnight blue and added Vallejo's metallic medium to it, this was to get the reflective effect many butterflies wings have, and traced the veins in the wing. The rest was pretty straightforward, although I have to say painting something so small is a real test of the steady hand. The base was made in a similar way to Klutes water base (see the articles section), but sculpted out of greenstuff/milliput mix. I made a RTV mould of the base and cast it in resin. This way I have a growing collection of moulds for different bases, so I can just cast a base if I want instead of having to always make new ones. Hope you like her :)
Posted: 6 Jun 2004
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