Painting THE FOGLET from The Witcher: Old World

Steps

1. 1 Prime the miniature in grey, then stipple Hellbound Flesh over all the skin for a mottled, textured base coat.
2. 2 Wash the whole miniature with Drakenhof Nightshade to build shadows and set up highlights.
3. 3 Base-coat the base: German Camo Black Brown for the dirt, Cold Grey for some stones, Steel Legion Drab for others, Mournfang Brown for the wood.
4. 4 Paint the bones scattered on the base and the foglet's teeth with Screaming Skull.
5. 5 Add leaves: Jokaero Orange for a dead, dry look, Deathworld Forest for the rest, stippled around the rocks for moss and greenery.
6. 6 Dry-brush Flayed One Flesh over the whole base to bring out highlights.
7. 7 Shade the base: a Biel-Tan Green and Agrax Earthshade mix on the dirt, a plain Agrax Earthshade wash everywhere else, then paint the rim Abaddon Black.
8. 8 Highlight the foglet's limbs and head with a dry-brushed mix of Flayed One Flesh and Hellbound Flesh, built up over a few passes.
9. 9 Wash the chest and lower head with Biel-Tan Green for a green hue, keeping the limbs paler.
10. 10 Shade the teeth and fill in the nose and eye sockets with Nuln Oil.
11. 11 Base-coat the glowing chest cavity with Pastel Yellow, then add White to the center of the cavity and the eyes for a glow effect.
12. 12 Add Carroburg Crimson to the ear tips, a heavier wash on the mouth for blood, and around the chest cavity.
13. 13 Base-coat the claws with German Grey, highlighted off-camera with a touch of white.
14. 14 Reestablish a few teeth with Screaming Skull where they got covered by red, then build the chest-glow highlight by layering Hellbound Flesh mixed with progressively more Pastel Yellow.

Paints used

• Abaddon Black (Citadel)

  Base rim, painted last to frame the whole miniature

• Agrax Earthshade (Citadel)

  Wash over the rest of the base, after the green shade mix

• Biel-Tan Green (Citadel)

  Mixed with Agrax Earthshade to shade the dirt on the base; used alone to give the foglet's chest and lower head a green hue

• Carroburg Crimson (Citadel)

  Ear tips for redness, a heavier wash on the mouth for blood, and around the chest cavity

• Cold Grey (Vallejo Game Color)

  Base coat for some of the stones on the base

• Deathworld Forest (Citadel)

  Coat on most of the base's leaves; stippled around the rocks for moss and greenery

• Drakenhof Nightshade (Citadel)

  Wash over the entire miniature after the Hellbound Flesh base coat, to build shadows

• Flayed One Flesh (Citadel)

  Dry-brushed over the entire base for highlights; mixed with Hellbound Flesh for a dry-brush highlight on the limbs and head

• German Camo Black Brown (Vallejo Model Color)

  Base coat for the dirt on the base

• German Grey (Vallejo Model Color)

  Base coat for the claws

• Hellbound Flesh (Scalecolor)

  Stippled base coat for all the skin; mixed with Flayed One Flesh for limb/head highlights and with Pastel Yellow for the chest-glow highlight

• Jokaero Orange (Citadel)

  Some of the base's leaves, for a dead, dry look

• Mournfang Brown (Citadel)

  The wood pieces on the base

• Nuln Oil (Citadel)

  Shading on the teeth, and filling in the nose and eye sockets

• Pastel Yellow (AK Interactive)

  Base coat for the glowing chest cavity; mixed with Hellbound Flesh for the surrounding highlights

• Screaming Skull (Citadel)

  Bones on the base, and the foglet's teeth

• Steel Legion Drab (Citadel)

  Some of the rocks on the base

• White (AK Interactive)

  Central portion of the chest glow and the centers of the eyes, to suggest light