Coven of the Black Woods - Heavy Witches Set (x2)

The Coven's heavy support operatives, the Heavy Witches Set delivers two formidable battlefield enforcers whose presence on the tabletop blends occult ritual horror with the brutal firepower of industrial trench warfare. Each witch is a commanding figure draped in heavy chains, rope bindings and tattered garments, their faces entirely concealed behind wide-brimmed ceremonial hats bearing deeply carved occult sigils, a pentagram on one, a chaos-touched rune on the other, that mark their status as dedicated instruments of a dark and ancient power. Barefoot and unarmoured yet utterly unhurried, these figures carry themselves with the absolute confidence of warriors who have traded conventional protection for supernatural resilience. The first coven operative is an close-quarters executioner, advancing with a massive cleaver-blade held low in one hand while the other cradles a skull focus, a daemonic goat familiar padding silently at her heel. Heavy chains loop across her chest and shoulders, their weight seemingly irrelevant to her supernatural strength, while armoured bracers and rope wrappings at her forearms suggest a warrior who has fought long enough to adopt practical protections without abandoning her ritual identity. The goat companion ties her visually to older and darker traditions of forest coven practice, suggesting her power draws from animal sacrifice and blood ritual as much as battlefield experience. The second coven operative is a ranged devastator, bracing an enormous multi-barrelled rotary cannon against her hip with casual authority, its bulk dwarfed by her supernatural confidence. Chains cascade from her shoulders in heavy loops reaching almost to the ground, skulls nestled among the links, while the same wide sigil-marked hat casts her face in deep shadow above the weapon's smoking barrels. She represents the coven's ability to project catastrophic firepower at range, a witch who channels destructive energy through industrial hardware as readily as through ritual incantation. Together the two Heavy Witches form a complementary pair covering both melee and ranged battlefield roles, their shared visual language of chains, occult headwear and bare skin creating a cohesive and deeply striking unit presence. The contrast between their exposed vulnerability and their overwhelming firepower is the defining visual tension of the set, suggesting these are beings for whom conventional concepts of protection and danger simply no longer apply. Supplied as two unpainted, unassembled resin miniatures, the Heavy Witches Set is an outstanding addition to any coven warband or dark occult collection, equally suited to display painting and competitive tabletop use. Painting Guide: Heavy Witches Set The Heavy Witches reward a palette that balances warm exposed skin tones against cold corroded iron chains and rich occult accent colours, letting the supernatural green atmospheric lighting visible in the render images inspire your OSL and glaze work. 1. Prime Prime grey for a balanced neutral foundation that suits both the warm skin surfaces and the cold metallic chain work equally well across both figures. 2. Armour Base Basecoat skin in Cadian Fleshtone or Bugman's Glow, shading into recesses with Reikland Fleshshade and building highlights up through Kislev Flesh to Pallid Wych Flesh on the most prominent limb and facial surfaces. Paint rope bindings and tattered cloth in Zandri Dust washed with Agrax Earthshade, highlighted with Ushabti Bone on raised rope coils and fabric edges. 3. Trim and Details Paint all chains in Leadbelcher washed heavily with Nuln Oil, then drybrush selectively with Ironbreaker on the most prominent chain links to suggest worn polished metal under dark atmospheric conditions. Apply Agrax Earthshade across all rope, cloth and organic surfaces to unify the warm tones, and use Druchii Violet selectively in deep shadow recesses around the hat brim and chain clusters for a subtle supernatural depth. 4. Weapons Paint the cleaver blade in dark corroded iron using Leadbelcher washed with Typhus Corrosion and Nuln Oil, highlighting the cutting edge only with Runefang Steel for a well-used brutal finish. Paint the rotary cannon in the same corroded iron palette, then add heat staining on barrel muzzles using thinned Fuegan Orange fading to Guilliman Flesh, and consider a faint green OSL glow from the barrel cluster interior using thinned Moot Green to suggest supernatural ammunition. 5. Weathering Keep skin surfaces clean and smooth to maintain the unsettling contrast between vulnerability and power, concentrating all weathering on the chains, weapons and hat surfaces using Typhus Corrosion and stippled Ryza Rust. Add thin streaks of thinned Athonian Camoshade running down from chain links onto skin and cloth surfaces below to suggest the chains have been worn long enough to leave permanent staining marks. 6. Bases Blighted trench ground or contaminated forest floor bases suit both figures: dark brown texture paste drybrushed with Baneblade Brown and Ushabti Bone, with pools of gloss varnish suggesting stagnant water, scattered skull fragments, and sickly green OSL from mushroom or moss details tying back to the supernatural coven energy surrounding these operatives. Sculpted by Konstantin Veilikikh