[WM] Dark Elf army

[jchaos79]

what a speed of painting!

[calmacil]

Thanks jc


I'm a bit stuck with cavalry and infantry.   
The problem is the way i've sanded and drybrushed the bases.
So far i've glued all the figures onto the base, added sand, sprayed with black undercoat and drybrushed. Simple because i can be messy with the drybrushing, and there's enough room around the figures for me to drybrush.

However, with cav and infantry i can't glue everything onto a base because your brush can't get to certain areas. My plan was to glue one strip of cav/inf to the base, then paint the other one and glue....... but how do i do the sand/drybrush? ...it's going to get grey all over my painting

Not sure if i made myself clear. Do you understand my problem?
Anyone got any ideas?

[Lex]

the area between the two strips will be darker anyway. I tend to just have the less visible bits in the darkest basecolour used, and only highlight the shoulders/heads and weaponbits that protrude......

[pw]

I base all my WM stuff that way (i.e. paint one stand on the base, the other off) and then put them together once they're all painted. I've not had problems getting to the middle with a small drybrush, anything you can't reach you can probably can't see anyway. I fill in the middle using Vallejo pumice but I imagine using brush-on PVA and sand would be no more difficult.

[calmacil]

Okay, thanks Lex and pw.

I think i'll have a go at sanding half the base, painting the other strip. Then sanding that 2nd strip.


I've done 2 half sanded bases, i worked where the other stand was going and painted on a thin line.
I followed this line with my pva glue, and added sand>>>

[calmacil]

Here's the bolt throwers i've finished off tonight.





Here they are all together in their units.




Almost finished the sorceress

[calmacil]

.....and here she is




I feel as though i'm getting somewhere fast with this army, i like painting quickly  

Hopefully i can keep up the pace, because i know i won't be able to paint this weekend

[calmacil]

Just messing around with some different colours for the dark elf spearmen units. I intend to make each unit visually different, so it's easy to identify in the game.

[Guthwine]

Great speed, great quality, very nice work!

[azrael71]

Nice banner

[calmacil]

Thanks Guthwine (is that Eomer's sword?) and azrael71 


I have a question for everyone. For my general i'd like to base him on a round coin bigger than 2 pence.

A 2 pence coin is 2.5cm diametre. Ideally i'm thinking 4cm diametre would be best.
Does anyone know any coins that size?

[Lex]

Go to ;ocal DIY, there is 1"5 and 1"8 metal washers that will do the trick (remember an inch is round and about a thumb so these would pen out to  3,75 cm ....

[calmacil]

Lex that's brilliant  you've saved me a lot of searching around for coins, i'm really pleased i asked now. Thank you

[Carrington]

Also, poker chips would be a good size, and marginally cheaper... depends on whether you prefer plastic or steel.

[calmacil]

Good idea Carrigton. I was thinking of doing some heads on poles, so maybe i need to drill into the base of one character stand.


Few more stands to go with the banner. As mentioned before i want to be able to identify the spearmen units just by looking at them. So one unit will have black shields, red symbols etc.




A tactical question for Dark Elves..... is the sceptre of sovereignty a good item to have on a Dark Elf General?
It will make my general more expensive than a High Elf general, but will allow me to avoid losing a Cmd for my first blunder