Air Elemental

An Air Elemental painted to match my previously painted Huge Air Elemental.

I wanted to paint this air elemental to match my previous one, so I used the same color palette. I primed with a light grey and base coated with a light greyish blue. I then used a small makeup brush to apply a heavy dry-brushDry-brushing is the technique of wiping most of the paint off your brush and lightly brushing a miniature, in order to only catch the raised edges with a light dusting of a highlight color. of a very light grey, and finished with a light dry-brush of white. I then touched up a few spots, such as the face, with some extra white highlights, to make them more defined and focused.

For the base, I also used the same scheme as my previous air elemental, but this miniature didn’t come with a pre-modelled base, so I had to make my own. I tried out my new Rough Grey Pumice by Vallejo, to add a simple rough texture to the base. It was a little more coarse than I was expecting, but it works fine. This isn’y a display piece, just a tabletop miniature, so I don’t mind if it’s not perfect. I then painted it with a neutral grey, cave it a washWashes are paints diluted with water, which can be "washed" onto a miniature in order for the paint to flow into the recesses, usually for shading purposes. of Agrax Earthshade, and dry-brushed it with light grey.

Overall, I think the miniature turned out well. I did smudge a spot on the front after cleat-coating it, which had to be touched up, but otherwise it turned out fine. It’s no display piece, but it looks fine for a table-readyTable-ready is a term to describe a miniature that may not look as good as the painter would like, but looks good enough that it’s ready to be played with on in tabletop games. miniature for playing D&D with. I do think the rough texture was a little too coarse. It would work fine for very rough sand, but not for a simply bumpy rock surface like I was going for. In the future, I may have to try out my other texture pastes, and I might try mixing it with normal paint to see if diluting the texture with regular paint will give a different effect.