Ashan'Tyr (Rackham) by Tooshy

Description	:	Ashan'Tyr is one of my favourite Rackham minis. Her pose is full of grace; beautiful but deadly. She had been a WIP for almost 2 years, with just her cowl and base skin colour done when I finally picked her up again last month. In my mind she is the best mini I have completed to date - but we all love the last one we just painted huh? ;o) She is painted with a mixture of Vallejo (V) and Miniature Paints (MP). Colours as follows: Skin: base Liquitex Burnt Sienna+Earth Brown (MP). Highlight: Ivory Cowl(Hood): Sand (MP) + Cobra Leather (V) + Bonewhite (V) Gems: Flat blue (V) + Ivory (V) Claws: Umber(MP) + Plague Brown (V) + Bonewhite (V) Dress: Flat Red (V) + Burgandy (MP) + brown/black ink wash then highlight with Orange Fire(V) + Ivory (V) to base The base is the most technical I have created so far. It's amazing what you can do with some coffee stirrers from Costa, some cork, gravel and odds and sods! Oh and I used the Woodland Scenics Easy Water resin beads. Thank you for looking, comments welcome :o)

Poll results:
Number 3 overall.
First Place: 7 votes
Second Place: 6 votes
Third Place: 7 votes

From:	Eric Johns (EricJ)	(Mon 19 Sep 2005 01:57:09 AM CDT)
Great work, perhaps my favorite work you've done. The blending and colors are right on and the base is perfect!

From:	Kevin Clark (rodnik)	(Fri 23 Sep 2005 12:36:02 PM CDT)
I love the "skintones" (furtones...) on this one. Lovely.

From:	Darin Hlavaz (Whizard)	(Tue 27 Sep 2005 03:32:30 PM CDT)
Lovely paint. Lovely composition. Nicely done.

From:	Rhonda Bender (Wren)	(Wed 28 Sep 2005 10:51:47 AM CDT)
Lovely piece - smooth painting, and wonderful colour choices. I particularly like the harmony between skin tone and dress colour. And the face is wonderfully done.

From:	Michael Harness (mediocrity)	(Wed 28 Sep 2005 01:07:30 PM CDT)
Wow, those are some smooth blends. The colors really work on this one as well. I wish the pictures were a bit bigger to see more of what you had done, but aside from that I really like this miniature. Kudos

From:	Tracy (TooShy)	(Sat 01 Oct 2005 05:04:53 PM CDT)
Thank you so very much to those who voted for me. I am honoured and thrilled to have placed. I'll be wearing a faster pair of boots next time and I'll catch Rodnik up ;)