Wednesday Wizard 13- Wendigo Ice Witch

The first season of my Wednesday Wizards painting stunt comes to an end with another excellent Crocodile Games mini. This one is from WarGods of Hyperborea, the Wendigo Ice Witch. 

 As with many fancy miniatures, this one had been put on the back burner for a long time because I was afraid to ruin her with paint. Late last year I actually got the courage to clean, assemble, and base her. The base was a little sparse, so I added a damaged skull because skulls are cool. 

 The plan for my meager Wendigo warband has long been to skip the ice and snow, because everybody's doing that. I forget who originally painted their Wendigo as more forest-based Sasquatch colors, but thanks to them for helping provide the inspiration. 

Thus, the Ice Witch needed to be more forest colored. I started with her cape. Various layers of greens built up. Since she was assembled before painting (I try to avoid sub-assemblies unless absolutely necessary), it was a little difficult getting to he back and to the inside of the cape, but I managed it with just a bit of frustration. 

The sword turned out pretty good with some gray brybrushed up to the whitest white paint that actually works for me. Is it ice? Is it bone? Is magical bone-ice? Possibly.

 Her skin was originally going to be greenish, but I have a canvas color that looked much better when mixed with some light green. Her scepter needed to be some magical crystal. I got to use my favorite aqua color pints to help make it look magical.

Size comparison with a Hanging Skeleton from Cursed City and an Iron Kingdoms Undead Knight

I started the Wednesday Wizards on a whim. It was originally going to only be Reaper Bones Wizard minis, and I still have a lot of those that should be painted. I've managed to go 13 weeks in a row finishing a wizard mini. I'm taking a break for March of 2026 to paint some other stuff without the weekly deadline, but the Wednesday Wizards turned out to be a fun personal challenge that may get a Season 2 starting in April. We'll have to wait to see where the winds of magic blow...

 This is another crossover with my WarGods focused blog, the post from that side of things can be seen here.