The Revenant

The Revenant

Continuing with the characters for the dark DnD setting, I converted a miniature that I had been wanting to use for a while to make a revenant.  First, here is the finished product:

I converted this miniature from a Privateer Press Monolith bearer (Link).  I think the basis of the original miniature is really cool, but the monolith is too obnoxious to allow it to be feasible as anything else. 

Removing the monolith was a very long process that involved a lot of sawing, cutting, clipping and filing.  I tried to keep the left arm but it was too destroyed.  I replaced it with the left arm from the Frostgrave Barbarian set and sculpted the left sleeve and gauntlet.  I also had to sculpt everywhere the monolith had been on the back to continue the robes. I didn't do a very good job at smoothing them out (Filing by hand made little progress) and I think this hindered the paint job on the back side.  I think I need to invest in a dremel to make these kind of conversions easier.

Paintwise, the colour scheme came from an experiment in theory.  I had read that to make a scheme more believable, the shadows should have cooler tones and the highlights should had warmer tones.  So I thought purple would be a good starting point as it would be easy to make warmer and cooler by adding red and blue colours respectively.  A base of dark purple with a heavy blue wash led on to a slow highlight with dilute purply red.  I think it looks cool but I think the addition of glowing eyes would have made it a lot better.