Loremaster

 I wanted one of these guys to lead my Swordmasters of Hoeth themed force. So when it was rereleased recently I made sure to get one. 

I couldn't seem to find many painted examples out in the wild of this model that wasn't all angled in the same direction. So I had a difficult time trying to figure out what was what with some of the details on the backside of this model. however I was able to find an old tutorial that helped me out with some of the areas I was confused about.

Contrast Paint Basecoats.

I followed the steps I laid out in the Swordmasters posts for most of the miniature. 

one of exceptional areas being the spell effect manifesting from his hand. I decided to go with a pinkish color as opposed to the greenish one GW used on the packaging photo. . I  kept thinking it looks like he's stopping a snowball so I wanted to paint it a color that would do the most to avoid that comparison.

I thought that there was so much ornamentation on the front of this model that I needed to try to break that color quagmire. I chose to make the necklace a different color of gold to help it stand out better. Just below his belt there is a pair of crescent moon charms that I wanted to make stand out  better.  I decided these would look interesting as jade. After painting them I was very pleased with how they turned out. 

The next area of interest is the cloak. I made it fade from dark blue into a purple. Normally on the cloaks and Shields of my High Elves I tend to paint stars over a twilight colored background. But I like how this looked as is, so I left off the stars. If I change my mind  down the road I suppise I can always revisit this model. 

When he was done, I just added some grass tufts and a few leaves to top him off. 

And now he is ready to lead the Swordmasters of Hoeth to battle. With luck that will be sooner than later!

"Onward to death!!!"