Life Finds A Way

My second entry for the painting competition. The brief was the same - two figures fighting on a single base. 

The base was blue foam and polyfilla and the trees were made from various gauges of wire, skinned with tissue dipped in watered down PVA. 

The dryad was posed based on the positioning of the slope, and the liana were formed of thin brass rod, melded into the arms with greenstuff. 

The nurgle daemon had his legs removed and repositioned to have him thrown back. Holes were drilled through his body to allow the liana to burst out of the other side. 

test fit looked good, so we could start painting

The key idea of the base - as with Doctor N R Gull's caravan - was to show the encroaching toxic rot of Nurgle into the woodland the Dryad was trying to defend. 

And so the whole thing was put together.

I am very happy with this. Now we'll just have to see how it does in the competition!