Nighthaunt Spirit Swarm

On By Chris B.In Age of Sigmar, Grand Alliance Death, Nighthaunt

In this week’s blog post I’ll be talking about my recent Nighthaunt Spirit Host project. This miniature and its LED effects have been specially commissioned by the team at Green Stuff World to show off some of their 3D printed accessories and LED kits. This is my fourth Green Stuff World commission after Sergeant Khons, Custodian Kalden, and Genestealer Clamavus Voval Kreen that I posted earlier this year.

Modelling

This miniature was intended to demonstrate what could be achieved by combining the Green Stuff World 3D printed Resin Candles and miniature LED sets. When brainstorming ideas for how to include these in a miniature, I went to the Nighthaunts almost straight away. I did originally consider having the ghosts holding the candles. While that is definitely possible, it makes the process a lot more complicated and I was trying to keep this tutorial as accessible as I could.

Once the idea of having the spirits holding the candles had been eliminated, I decided to have them on the base instead. At first I was going to have them sitting on and around the grave in at random as though they were memorial candles left by mourners. Then it occurred to me they might look better arranged in a circle around the grave as though they were being used in of a necromantic summoning ritual.

As part of the commission I filmed all the stages of the build process, some clips of which you can see in the video below.

A full PDF tutorial for this build will be released via Green Stuff World soon. When it is, I’ll add it here and link to it from my tutorial section. In the meantime to get you started here’s a list of all the components and consumables I used.

You may also find my older LED Nighthaunt Candles Short-Form Tutorial interesting, which shows a similar process applied to a Nighthaunt Chainrasp Dreadwarden using slightly different techniques and components.

Painting

The paint scheme on this miniature was very simple and (I’d like to think) quite effective. I largely followed the technique I’d used with my previous Nighthaunt. The only difference was a slight change in approach to the green ‘ectoplasm’ which dominates the Spirit Host miniature. This time I thinned the Hexwraith Flame with Contrast Medium instead of Lahmian Medium. I don’t think Contrast Medium actually existed when I painted my previous Nighthaunt! I also made the layers and highlights thinner and more subtle. The updated key colours are listed below:

  • Green Ectoplasm
  • Grey Seer undercoat
  • 50:50 Hexwraith Flame:Contrast Medium
  • Thin Ulthuan Grey glaze on raised detail areas (faces, hands, etc.)
  • White Scar dot highlight on sharp points in Ulthuan Grey glazed areas

That’s all for today, I hope you enjoyed this miniature and the demonstration of the Green Stuff World kits! Thanks very much for reading, and please remember you can also find me sharing my work on Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, Bluesky and Mastodon.

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