[WM] a bit of High Elves

[David Wasilewski]

Beautiful - rich and striking colours. Who says you can't put the effort in on painting 10mm!

The scale of 10mm allows for units made up of proper numbers i.e. a 2 unit Silverhelm brigade = 24 cavalry figures!

Welcome back into the fold.

Dave

[Dave]

Thanks guys.

Glad to see people like them and that they've helped to expand the hobby. I've always liked work logs for this reason, it's nice I got to flip it around this time.

[Dave]

I picked up where I left off with the Reavers a month or so back. I managed to get the base coats down for the horse flesh and tack. I should be able to get a wash and highlights on them this weekend. After that I'll move on to the flesh, red and white.





HAVOC was this past weekend and I picked up some of the Army Painter flock. I like it because it's not the ultra-fine foam/sawfust powder. Here's my first trial with it. Thoughts? I'm still planning on putting the tufts on as well, but I think it's going to be a lot easier to put this stuff down first.



Also, I was digging through some old models and found my dragons from the 6mm Dragon Lords line. Aside for the wings (too dinky) I thought the Purple Dragon would make an excellent Giant Eagle mount proxy. I've since named him Eagon the Dragle and managed to get a High Elf character off of a horse and on him, complete with headswap. I'm picking up some wings that I think will work for him tonight.

[Stormwind]

Wait a minute - are you not spraycoating these minis at all? O.O

[Dave]

They got a glosscoat and two dullcotes.

[Vermis]

I've got a couple of thousand points of HE to build and paint for a game, meself.  This topic is a huge inspiration and motivation.  I don't know if I'd go as far as painting the eyes and printing teeny-tiny decals for the shields, though!

[Dave]

Come on! Why not? All the cool kids are doing it!

[Stuart Bleything]

Your army looks spectacular , well done . Once a long time ago i would have painted the eyes in as well . Now unfortunately for me , my eyes are not as good .

Again well done .

Stuart

[jchaos79]

The dragon looks pretty good. Are you going to use some HE draon wings?

[Dave]

I found a pair of wings I liked from a Reaper mini. They're sitting on him right now waiting for some putty work.

[Dave]

The Reavers are coming along, which is good because I heading out to Adepticon on the 18th. I did the leather flesh, tassles and pantaloons this week. Next up is the white, silver, bows and fletchings.



I still have to convert the banners on these guys too, hopefully I can get to that this weekend.



I got the wings for Eagon, I think they worked out pretty well. They still need a bit of putty work though, and I think I need to pin his sword arm as it breaks too easily. That'll be a blast...

[jchaos79]

Those wings fit the dragon so good. Also good job with swap of the raider.

[Stormwind]

Wow I am seriously considering copying your paint scheme!  though I am too noob to do your fiddly modelling things I think heh.

[Dave]

I was pretty happy with how well the rider sat the dragon. Until I put the wings on it looked like it was part of the same model. I had to clip some of the rider's robes to fit the wings in though. I puttied up the dragon over the weekend (and pinned the sword arm, it was a lot easier then I thought) so the robe work is next then the painting.

Copy away Stormwind. Let me know if you're using the new GW paints, I'd like to see how the tones are different if so.

[Stormwind]

I'm afraid that over the past year, despite barely painting anything more than some Epic tanks, I spent £100 on GW paints in anticipation of diving into things...  Now I feel gutted as all reports of the new paints are that they are superior, hindered only by the unutterably stupid naming system.

I will be braving the bullshit patter of the GW store in my town though, to buy a handful of new paints, especially for elves both Warmaster and Warhammer - and perhaps for my Space Wolves too. Number 1 is their high pigment white.

Right now - I am trying to find HE colour schemes that really fit what i have in mind.  I wanted my army to have - if not a seaguard flavour specifically, one where they look like they're marching across white sand to repel enemies.

I found this test model did someone online and the lack of red really sells it to me.  Man, I wish models were cheaper so I didn't feel so self conscious about "test models" x-D