Shark Repellent Bat Spray: Step-by-step tutorial for painting Molly Weasley

This is the first of a two part tutorial for painting Molly and Arthur from the Harry Potter Miniatures Adventure Game.

I used Citadel paints for this one unless stated other wise

Working from a zenithal primed miniature, I started with the flesh tones. The base coat is Cadian Flesh.

Shade the flesh with Reikland Fleshshade and leave to dry.

Layer with Cadian Flesh leaving the shadow areas showing.

Highlight the skin with Kislev Flesh

Highlight again in a smaller area with Kislev Flesh mixed with some Flayed One Flesh.

Mark out the eyes with and off-white colour. I tend to use Vallejo’s Ivory. I find it easier to turn the model 90 degrees and place the tip of the brush in the corner of the eye socket near the nose and gently pull the bush towards the other corner. It will take a couple of strokes to get a nice even finish.

The eyes were dotted with black. The hair was given a coat of Skrag Brown mixed with Vallejo’s Cavalry Brown, very similar to Mournfang Brown, then apply a wash of Agrax Earthshade into the recesses of the hair.

The skirt was base coated using a thinned Averland Sunset. This will keep the shadow areas darker than the raised areas. For the second and third coats I only applied the yellow to the raised pleats of the skirt to build up the colour intensity.

The blouse is base coated with Death World Forest. After two coats I applied a wash using Biel Tan Green.

I forgot to paint her legs so I used the same colours as the face. Her shoes are done with the Cavalry Brown mixed we used earlier.

I picked out some raised strands of hair with Skrag Brown.

The collar of the blouse was painted with XV88 and washed with Agrax Earthshade.

Highlight the hair with a mix of Skrag Brown and Fire Dragon Bright, or a bright orange colour.

The edges of the blouse collar were picked out using XV88 mixed with a little Balor Brown. The hair was highlighted further by adding in Yriel Yellow to the previous Skrag Brown mix.

The blouse was lined using Death World Forest mixed with some Ushabti Bone. The collar was dotted with Vallejo’s Deck Tan or if Ushabti Bone if you prefer.

I wanted to do something a bit different from the box art for her skirt and ended up with an idea to do a floral pattern. I used a piece of paper to practice the design first.

The petals were sketched out with a middle blue colour and carefully lined with black. The inner part of the petals were highlighted with a sky blue and the centre of the flower was picked out with Averland Sunset mixed with some white. The stems were painted with a dark green with a lighter green used for the leaves.