Coven of the Black Woods - Bomber Witches

The Coven Of The Black Woods Bomber Witches is a stunning dual-figure centrepiece miniature that fuses occult ritual horror with the grimdark aesthetic of industrial trench warfare, two sinister sisterhood figures perched atop an enormous sigil-etched plague bomb surrounded by grinning skulls and crawling daemonic attendants. Each witch wears an ornate gas mask crowned with a wide ceremonial headdress adorned with skulls, the lenses dark and pitiless, their faces entirely concealed behind the breathing apparatus of a world where the very air has been poisoned by prolonged supernatural conflict. Braided rope bindings, tattered robes and bare limbs complete their unsettling silhouette, part battlefield operative, part dark priestess. The Coven Of The Black Woods aesthetic draws on the visual language of occult sisterhood cults operating in the shadow of an eternal holy war, women who have embraced forbidden knowledge and alchemical destruction as their sacred calling. The central bomb they straddle is an immense rusted sphere covered in carved ritual markings and pentagrammic inscriptions, its surface pitted and warped by the corrosive properties of whatever abominable payload it contains. Skull-faced daemon attendants cling to its base, their presence confirming this weapon is as much supernatural curse as physical explosive. This is a display quality centrepiece that functions equally well as a narrative objective marker, a coven leader, a summoning token or a standalone collector's showpiece. The composition is rich with storytelling detail at every angle, the two figures lean against each other with an unsettling intimacy, their poses relaxed and confident despite the enormous weapon of mass destruction they casually inhabit. Green bioluminescent growths emerge from the scenic base below, hinting at the ongoing corruption already spreading from their presence. The sculpt rewards painters who enjoy blending warm flesh tones against cold industrial hardware, with the contrast between the organic figures and the rusted mechanical bomb at their feet providing a compelling visual tension that anchors the entire composition. Supplied as a single unpainted, unassembled resin miniature with scenic base, the Bomber Witches is an outstanding centrepiece for any collector drawn to the darker intersection of occult ritual and industrial warfarePainting Guide: Bomber Witches The Bomber Witches reward a palette that contrasts warm human skin tones against cold rusted metal and sickly supernatural green accents, creating a model that feels simultaneously beautiful and deeply unsettling. 1. Prime Prime grey for a balanced neutral foundation that suits both the warm skin tones and the cold metallic bomb surfaces equally, avoiding the extremes of black or white primer for this particular composition. 2. Armour Base Basecoat skin in Cadian Fleshtone or Bugman's Glow, shading down with Reikland Fleshshade in recesses and building highlights up through Kislev Flesh to Pallid Wych Flesh on the most exposed limb surfaces. Paint robes and cloth bindings in aged linen tones using Zandri Dust highlighted with Ushabti Bone, or alternatively deep ochre yellow using Yriel Yellow shaded with Casandora Yellow for a more vivid ritual garment appearance. 3. Trim and Details Paint the gas mask and headdress in tarnished brass using Hashut Copper washed with Agrax Earthshade and Reikland Fleshshade, then highlight with Gehenna's Gold on raised skull details and mask rims. Apply Nuln Oil into all mask recesses and rope bindings, and use Agrax Earthshade across all bone and skull surfaces throughout the composition to unify the warm tones across the piece. 4. Weapons Paint the plague bomb in heavily corroded iron using Leadbelcher washed with Typhus Corrosion and Agrax Earthshade, then drybrush selectively with Ryza Rust on the most prominent surface areas. Pick out the carved ritual inscriptions and sigils with thinned Moot Green or Tesseract Glow to suggest active supernatural energy trapped within the bomb's casing, creating a subtle but effective OSL effect across adjacent surfaces. 5. Weathering Keep the figures themselves relatively clean to maintain their unsettling composure, concentrating weathering on the bomb surface and scenic base using Typhus Corrosion and Nurgle's Rot technical paints. Add thin streaks of thinned Athonian Camoshade running down from the bomb's ritual carvings to suggest slow supernatural seepage across the corroded metal surface. 6. Bases The scenic base suits a blighted forest floor or contaminated trench ground treatment: dark earth texture paste drybrushed in Rhinox Hide and Baneblade Brown, with patches of Nurgle's Rot pooled around the daemon attendants at the base, sparse dead vegetation tufts and green glowing moss effects using thinned Moot Green to tie back to the bomb's supernatural energy. Sculpted by Konstantin Velikikh