While at my local gaming store, I purchased a used Night Haunt miniature by Games Workshop. Unfortunately, this model is not for sale by itself from the company, but only found in the Soul Wars boxed set. It was a great deal as the model came assembled and primed. What caught my eye the most was its missing left hand. Suddenly, a multitude endless possibilities ran through my head. So with that, I picked it up and brought it home. Sadly, I forgot to take pictures of the model at this stage.

Once home, I searched through my bits box. Inside, I found the perfect left hand for this ghostly caster: a Shadow Warrior gloved hand and sword. I clipped off the extended glove portion with wire cutters and attached it with super glue. Next was figuring out a painting scheme. However, I already knew what I was going for, as I used it on a previous miniature.

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• Metallic paints
  • CreamCoat Brown Iron Oxide
  • Army Painter Gun Metal
  • Army Painter Plate Mail
  • Army Painter Bronze Weapon
  • P3 Rhulic Gold
  • Army Painter Bright Gold
• Washes
  • Citadel Biel-Tan Green
  • Citadel Coelia Greenshade
  • Citadel Nuln Oil
  • Citadel Agrax Earthshade
  • Citadel Nihilakh Oxide
• Additional Paints
  • Citadel Lamia Medium
  • P3 Coal Black
  • Army Painter Necromancer Cloak
  • Citadel Ryza Rust
  • Army Painter Dungeon Grey
  • Army Painter Leather Brown
  • Army Painter Monster Brown
  • Army Painter Skeleton Bone
  • Army Painter Matt White
  • Army Painter Kraken Skin
  • Army Painter Poisonous Cloud
  • Folk Art Malachite

I wanted a yellowish green ghostly flame look, to go along with this some heavily weathered metals. Because there is no quick and easy weathered look, I have my own formula. Before that, I needed to lay down a dark gray over the iron/steel areas.

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After painting those areas, I started to block in the other colors. To start, I coated the inside with the Poisonous Cloud acrylic. After that, I wet blended white and the Poisonous Cloud to get a gradient of colors on the outer ghostly robes.

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Since I was going to be having bronze in a few places I started to lay the ground work for that down using P3 Coal Black, as well as the iron oxide on the dark gray areas. I accomplished this by stippling the brown paint all over the back plate, some of the helm and staff. Next, I painted the ghostly flesh with Kraken Skin and the mist from the staff with white.

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Continuing to work on the rust, I edge highlighted with a mixture of Necromancer Cloak and Gun metal, applied a few spots of stippling, a few scratches, and finally a light stippling of Riza Rust. After that, a very thin glaze of Lava Orange. I turned my attention to the bronze. Using Weapon Bronze, I randomly painted areas of non-tarnished areas of the metal. Then I applied Nihlakh Oxide over all the bronze areas, quickly wiped away excessive pooling of this technical paint.

I started the sword of with a base coat of the Necromancer Cloak and Gun metal mixture. Then shaded it with Nuln oil and after it dried, I painted the upper half with a Uniform Gray/Plate armor metal mixture. I painted the rune with Bright Gold. The cross guard was coated with Rhulic gold and after it dried, washed with Agrax Earthshade. I painted the gauntlet with Leather Brown and shaded with the Agrax Earthshade. From there, I highlighted the leather with the original base coat, and then a Leather Brown/Monster Brown combo (1:1).

While that dried, I shaded the skin with Beil-Tan Green, and the vapor with Coelia Greenshade that I mixed with Lamia Medium. I also mixed the Beil-Tan Green and Lamia Medium to apply a more subtle shade to the ghost’s outer robes. Once the shades dried, I applied the Kraken skin to the arms to bring the original color back. Then applied several highlights to brighten those areas.

For the robes, I mixed the Poisonous Cloud and White to apply some highlights on the most raised folds. Once that was done, I returned to the sword hilt. After reapplying the Rhulic Gold, I applied a highlight of bright gold. To all the gems of the model I applied Green Malachite. I applied Skeleton Bone to the skull, and once dried I applied Agrax Earthshade. Then I highlighted with the Skeleton Bone and increasing amounts of white. The stone wall was painted with uniform grey and shaded via Nuln Oil.

Once the shade dried, I applied the Uniform gray and then mixed in white to lighten it. From there I applied a brown paint to the base. Agrellan Badland applied after the base paint dried.Afterwards a few autumn colored foliage clumps rounded out the finished base look. Then finally the base rim was painted.

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SOLD.