Darvin Stonebraid, painted: a bearded dwarf in silver scale armour with axe and round shield, standing on a rock base with blue crystals

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Darvin Stonebraid

Throne Guard of the Ironhold

Everything to paint him is in the box: the twelve Jacquard colours he was designed in, the guide that takes you from black primer to finished throne guard in ten steps, his story and a certificate of authenticity. A handcrafted figure, ten centimetres from rock to helm, made in Germany when you order.

Limited Edition • Handcrafted • Made in Germany

Limited edition

Limited to 100 pieces

Each one numbered, never produced again.

339,00 € incl. VAT, plus shipping

Darvin box + airbrush tool 339,00 € Figure, twelve Jacquard colours, painting guide, lore card, certificate — plus a Gaahleri GHAD-39 airbrush to spray them. The miniature arrives unpainted; you paint it.

Quantity

Secure checkout — card or bank transfer
14-day right of withdrawal
Shipped from Germany

Made to order. Production starts once your payment arrives.
You follow it live through every stage: queued, in production, finishing & QC, dispatched. The dispatch date is the hand-off to the carrier, not the delivery date.
Small batches: three boxes per order.

Limited Edition • Handcrafted • Made in Germany

The real thing

Real photos of the box, its contents and the unpainted figure you receive — plus a 3D view you can spin. The painted examples elsewhere show what you can create; the box ships unpainted.

Darvin Stonebraid – unbemalte Resin-Figur mit Axt und Schild

Interactive 3D — drag to rotate, scroll to zoom

Why this box

Designed as one piece

The figure, the twelve colours and the guide were made together. Every mix in the book uses only the paints in the box: no hunting for a shade, no extra bottle to buy.

Ten steps, no guessing

Pressures, mix ratios, drying times and a picture for every step. Red outlines show what you paint, red arrows show where you spray from.

Made when you order

No warehouse. Your figure is printed after your order, cleaned by hand and packed with its hand-bound guide. You see every step: print started, print finished, shipped.

Your twelve colours

Every colour in the guide comes from the twelve Jacquard Airbrush Colors in the box: water-based, ready to spray straight from the bottle, thinned with water for washes and glazes. Numbers as printed on the bottle.

206Opaque BlackOpaqueBase coat over primer, deepest shadows, pupils
207Opaque WhiteOpaqueZenithal light, highlights, all light mixes
305Metallic SilverMetallicArmour, axe head, headband, braid rings, shield rim
456Tanned LeatherSneaker SeriesBelt, boots, axe grip; base of hair mix
205Opaque SepiaOpaqueWood mix, hair & skin shading
201Opaque RedOpaqueHair and skin mixes
200Opaque YellowOpaqueHair highlights, skin mix
453Military GreenSneaker SeriesTrousers
457Concrete GreySneaker SeriesRock base
102Transparent BlueTransparentCrystals (glaze)
105Transparent BrownTransparentWash: leather, wood, hair, skin
106Transparent BlackTransparentWash: metal and rock

Jacquard Airbrush Color • 12 × 4 fl oz / 118 ml • numbers as printed on the bottle

Look closer

Braided beard, riveted scale, a shield of split planks and a base of broken rock and crystal: the detail the ten steps bring out.

Close-up of Darvin's face, headband and braided beard — The beard: two braids, silver rings left bare in step 5

Close-up of the round wooden shield with silver boss, rim and spokes — The shield: wood mix 205 + 456, boss and spokes in 305

Close-up of the rock base with blue crystals and riveted boots — The base: Concrete Grey rock, crystals glazed in 102

The finished figure

Four views of Darvin painted exactly as the guide describes, from the first black coat to the last gloss on the eyes.

Darvin Stonebraid, shield side — Shield side

These are painted examples, shown to illustrate the guide. The box ships unpainted — this is what you create, and your result will vary with your own hand. That is the point.

Painting guide

Ten steps from a black primed print to a finished throne guard, printed as an A5 booklet and bound by hand. Step through all ten here, exactly as they appear in the book.

Step

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10

Step 1 / 10

Prime black

After the primer has dried, spray 206 Opaque Black over the whole miniature in thin passes. Turn the figure so you reach under the arms, beard and shield. Everything must be evenly black.

206 Opaque Black

Tip

Let it dry for 15–20 minutes before the next step.

The black figure with white sprayed from above; red arrows show the spray direction

Step 2 / 10

Zenithal light

Spray 207 Opaque White from above, at about 45°, like sunlight. Short bursts at low pressure. Upper surfaces turn white, recesses and undersides stay black. This light map shows through every thin colour coat that follows.

207 Opaque White

Tip

Do not spray from below – the shadows are what makes it work.

The figure with armour, chain mail, axe head and shield rim outlined in red for silver

Step 3 / 10

Metal

305 Metallic Silver on all armour plates, the chain mail, the axe head, the headband, the braid rings and the rim, boss and spokes of the shield. Two thin coats by airbrush or brush.

305 Metallic Silver

Tip

Small parts like rivets and rings are quicker with a brush.

The figure with belt, boots, axe grip and wooden shield planks outlined in red for leather and wood

Step 4 / 10

Leather & wood

456 Tanned Leather on the belt, boots and axe grip. For the wooden shield planks and the axe haft mix 205 + 456 at 1:1. Use a brush and stay inside the lines; small slips will vanish under the wash.

456 Tanned Leather 1× 205 Opaque Sepia 1× 456 Tanned Leather

Step 5 / 10

Hair & beard

Copper brown: 456 : 201 : 205 at 3 : 1 : 2. Paint hair, beard and braids, leave the silver rings free. With the airbrush use low pressure from the front and cover the armour with a piece of card.

3× 456 Tanned Leather 1× 201 Opaque Red 2× 205 Opaque Sepia

Step 6 / 10

Skin

Face and hands: 207 : 201 : 200 : 205 at 5 : 1 : 1 : 2. Two thin layers with a brush, each allowed to dry.

5× 207 Opaque White 1× 201 Opaque Red 1× 200 Opaque Yellow 2× 205 Opaque Sepia

Tip

Thin with a drop of water so the layers stay smooth.

The figure with the trousers, rock base and crystals outlined in red

Step 7 / 10

Trousers, rock & crystals

453 Military Green on the trousers. 457 Concrete Grey on the whole rock base. Crystals: 207 + 102 at 2 : 1.

453 Military Green 457 Concrete Grey 2× 207 Opaque White 1× 102 Transparent Blue

The painted figure outlined in red: every part takes a wash

Step 8 / 10

Washes

Metal and rock: 106 + 105 at 2 : 1, thinned 1 : 3 with water. Hair, skin, leather and wood: 105, thinned 1 : 3. Brush the wash into recesses, not over large flat areas. Crystals: pure 102 into the bases.

2× 106 Transparent Black 1× 105 Transparent Brown 102 Transparent Blue

Tip

Let washes dry completely (about 30 minutes) before highlighting.

The fully highlighted figure outlined in red: edge highlights, hair, skin and drybrushed rock

Step 9 / 10

Highlights & details

Edges of the armour: 305 + 207 at 3 : 1. Hair strands: 456 : 200 : 207 at 3 : 1 : 1. Nose, cheekbones and knuckles: 207 : 201 : 200 at 3 : 1 : 1. Drybrush the rock with 457 + 207 at 1 : 1, crystal tips with pure 207. Eyes: a dot of 207, then a tiny dot of 206.

305 Metallic Silver 207 Opaque White 456 Tanned Leather 200 Opaque Yellow 201 Opaque Red 457 Concrete Grey 206 Opaque Black

Step 10 / 10

Seal

When everything is fully dry (at least 24 hours), protect the miniature with a matte acrylic varnish. Then add the gloss back only where you want shine – for example a drop of gloss varnish on the eyes.

The figure sprayed evenly black, outlined in red

Airbrush guide values

0.35 mm nozzle: 1.5–2 bar (20–30 psi) for base coats, 1–1.2 bar (15–18 psi) for zenithal light and details. Shake the bottle well; stir metallics.

Not in the box

Primer, airbrush cleaner, water, a mixing palette, fine brushes (Kolinsky sable in sizes 0 and 1), an old brush for drybrushing, matte varnish.

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The Story

Darvin was seventeen when the water came. A junior miner in Kelda’s crew, Shaft 9-East, six hundred meters below the Ironhold. He remembers the silence first — the way the mountain stopped breathing. Then the foreman’s voice, calm as bedrock: Get to Junction 7. Now.

Three hours later, Thordak Ironvein emerged from Shaft 11 carrying two survivors and the names of the dead. Darvin watched him walk out — dust-covered, silent, broken in places no healer could reach — and understood: some debts cannot be repaid, only honored.

When the foreman became king, Darvin left the mines. He trained with blade and shield until his hands forgot the weight of a pickaxe. He took his place beside the Scale-Throne and spoke a single oath: The mountain will not take you. Not while I stand.

He has stood ever since.

The Surrealm emblem: a cracked stone knot with ember veins

In the box

1×Unpainted miniature sculpture (~10 cm)
1×Full color reference card
1×Step-by-step painting guide
1×Character lore card
1×Certificate of authenticity
12×Jacquard Airbrush Color, 118 ml
1×Gaahleri GHAD-39 airbrush, to spray the colours

The airbrush is the tool; the miniature arrives unpainted, and you paint it.

Height: about 10 cm, rock base to helm
Material: resin print, cleaned and unpainted
Guide: A5 booklet, German or English, hand-bound
Paints: 12 × Jacquard Airbrush Color, 118 ml each
Made in: Germany, to order

Printed when you order

No shelf, no warehouse. Each figure is printed after the order comes in, cleaned by hand and packed with its guide. You get a message at every step.

1Order received
2Print started
3Print finished
4Shipped

Created by M17HR1L

The Surrealm line

Darvin Stonebraid is the first figure. The others follow one at a time, each with its own colours, its own guide and its own story, printed to order like this one.

Questions

What is in the Darvin box?

An unpainted resin miniature of Darvin Stonebraid, about 10 cm tall, twelve Jacquard Airbrush Colors of 118 ml, a full-colour reference card, the ten-step painting guide as an A5 booklet, his character lore card and a certificate of authenticity, plus a Gaahleri GHAD-39 airbrush to spray the colours.

Do I need an airbrush?

The guide is written for an airbrush with a 0.35 mm nozzle, with brush work for the details. The box includes a Gaahleri GHAD-39 airbrush, so you have the tool you need.

Is it suitable for beginners?

Yes. The guide starts with the unprimed print and gives the pressure, the mix ratio, the drying time and a picture for each of the ten steps.

When does it ship?

Darvin is made to order: printing starts with your order. You get a message when the print starts, when it is finished and when the box ships. Shipping costs are shown before you pay.

Can I return it?

You can withdraw from the purchase within 14 days of receiving the box. The details are in the withdrawal policy.

Which languages?

The page, the guide and the lore card come in German or English. Choose the booklet language at checkout.