These two minis I got from Bernd as a birthday present about ten years ago. I quickly assembled them, and since then they were always on the ToDo list, but always fell through… Now is the time. They were still mounted on plastic bases, but since then I moved to metal bases, so I quickly mounted them on metal bases from Products for Wargamers.
The method to paint them is heavily inspired by Marco Frisoni.
Checking my color wheel for the color opposite Golden High Flow - #528 Green Gold (which I intend to use as the main 'Goblin Green' skin color), I mixed a purple of 1:1 Molotow #233 purple violet and Molotow #043 violet dark.
With this purple tone I airbrushed the miniatures both as an undercoat as well as an undertone, the reason why I did not choose my normal black.
Over the purple, I airbrushed a zenithal with Daler Rowney Ink #011 White.
As said before, the main skin color is Golden High Flow - #528 Green Gold, which I thinned 1:1 with Golden Airbrush Transparent Extender. When sprayed on, the zenithal still shows through, providing the first level of color modulation. Here is also the reason for the purple rather than black basecoat.
From below, in a nadiral layer (is that the correct opposite word of zenithal…?), I airbrushed a darker green, Golden High Flow #577 Phtalo Green (Yellow Shade), thinned 1:4 with the extender medium.
For the highlight color to really pop, I added another white zenithal from directly above the minis, and some choosen spots (like when directly from above did not hit the face enough, or the belly).
The final layer then was a 1:4 mix of Golden High Flow #587 Light Green (Yellow Shade) and extender medium.
