One of my all time favourite Daughters of Khaine models, and one of the miniatures that attracted me to the faction in the first place, is the Slaughter Queen. I’ve been meaning to paint her for absolutely ages and the other day I thought “Why wait?” and cracked on at last.
Her hairdo is a bit ridiculous, which should put me off, but somehow I still think she’s awesome.
September 27th, 2021 at 7:01 am
Nicely done mate, love the black, gold and red scheme. She’s a fiddly wee thing to paint so you’ve done well to get those eyes in!!
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September 27th, 2021 at 9:13 pm
Cheers! She’s ludicrously fiddly isn’t she? The eyes, needless to say, were nerve wracking!
September 27th, 2021 at 11:37 am
The hairdo is my favourite part. Awesome man
September 27th, 2021 at 9:18 pm
Cheers mate! Yeah, her hair is awesome isn’t it? It’s the sort of thing that normally I wouldn’t like but in this case it really works for some reason.
September 27th, 2021 at 11:38 am
She’d be good for a cool Escher leader conversion
September 27th, 2021 at 9:28 pm
She would at that now you mention it. I tend to think of her as being one of those models that’s too iconic to convert (I know you’re thinking “no such thing”) but the solution might be to chop her head off and use it to make an Escher leader, then use the rest of her body for a gang champion. That way she’d still maintain her visual impact whilst breaking up the defining features – otherwise she’d run the risk of just looking like a sci-fi version of the Slaughter Queen and probably get mistaken for a Dark Eldar.
September 28th, 2021 at 9:41 am
All true
September 27th, 2021 at 5:37 pm
Very nice! 🙂 I quite like the hairdo!
September 27th, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Cheers! I maybe didn’t make myself clear in the post – I also really like her hairdo (not sure it would suit me mind you), but normally I’d find something like that a bit OTT on a miniature so kudos to the designer for pulling it off. 🙂
September 28th, 2021 at 6:42 am
Very nice figure and a great paint job. Can’t help but think this women needs to change her name unless she wants to remain single.
September 29th, 2021 at 10:13 am
Thanks! Haha – true, probably not something you’d want to see in a lonely hearts ad eh!
September 28th, 2021 at 11:07 pm
I really like the Red and gold combo on this lass! Her hair looks a lot like that new Zodgrod Ork model they recently released to me anyway 🙂 Always nice to see you painting up an elf too! I think after all my hard work, my positive influence is starting to rub off on you 😀
September 29th, 2021 at 10:23 am
You’re right, she does have a similar ‘do to Zodgrod, they must go to the same stylist! I know, I never thought it would come to this but I’ve actually got a fair number of these elves I’d like to paint. I’m a changed man I tell you! Still, at least they’re evil, blood-thirsty elves so I’ve not entirely lost my way…
September 30th, 2021 at 5:14 pm
Nice work on this. I tend to agree with you about the sculpt – I love it despite the crazy hair rather than because of it. I assume that the whole thing is a joke about 80s rock bands that were part of the genesis of GW; the Queen here probably visits the same hairdresser as David Lee Roth.
October 3rd, 2021 at 9:23 am
Haha – I can just picture the two of them sitting down the hairdressers, reading celebrity mags and gossiping! Glad you like her! 🙂
October 3rd, 2021 at 5:22 am
And here is me saying Manipulis was fiddly!! F…Mate I cant even imagine painting that hair !! I recon you just love stunning us, don’t you !!
October 4th, 2021 at 12:00 pm
Thanks mate but really the hair owes a lot to the power of drybrushing. I’m not going to pretend it was easy (it bloody wasn’t!) but it probably looks harder than it was. 🙂
October 7th, 2021 at 8:57 am
Ah ! Dry brushing , one of those things that I’m yet to master 🤓
October 7th, 2021 at 4:39 pm
Yeah, everyone always makes out that dry brushing is dead easy but I found it quite tricky to learn myself. A couple of tips, use a fairly soft brush for it (one that you don’t mind knackering). I use old paint brushes that have reached the point in their lives when they no longer hold anything even approaching a point. I’ve tried brushes that are sold to be used as drybrushes but I’ve always found they’re too stiff and scrape the paint underneath.
Dry brushing can also create quite dusty effect, they literally make the model look dry so keep that in mind too – a warrior from the desert will suit a bit of dry brushing far better than someone who lives in a swamp.
Crucially you need to be working over a surface that has a lot of texture (so this elf’s hair is perfect for this). You need lots of edges to catch, the fewer edges the less well it’s going to work.
I tend to use it in one of two ways. On this elf I was looking to add texture quickly to all that hair, never mind highlighting every individual strand I just gave her a quick drybrush and then – and this is vital – went back and added a few key highlights. That tricks the viewer’s eye, they see the highlights and it unless they look closely it appears that I’ve done a lot of careful highlighting when in fact I’ve not. Without these highlights it’s a lot more obvious that I went down the lazy route and drybrushed everything!
The other way it’s useful it to add a bit of weathering. Say I’ve painted a soldier and he looks all nice and clean like he’s just stepped off the parade ground. Now I give him a quick drybrush with brown or grey along the lower part of his trousers and suddenly it looks like he’s been crawling around in battlefield mud all day.
October 13th, 2021 at 9:43 pm
Cheers mate , sorry for the tardy response, it’s spring and the grass grows up behind you as you are mowing , especially in the paddock 😳and I’ve been helping Fi with the flooring in her house. You have hit the nail on the head 🤔, I have been using a stiff brush all along 🥴so I’ll change that and follow the rest of your advice, thanks mate 🤓