[WM] Stormwind Rails Against the Lead Mountain

[Stormwind]

A tally of 3 units finished for the first month of the year. 

Not too bad! Command and crossbowmen are next up.

[Aquahog]

Lovely colours!

[mocchus]

yep colours are great !

[fredmans]

I love the colours, a "noble" take on dark elves. It will be interesting to see the army develop.

/Fredmans

[Stormwind]

Thanks for the encouragement guys!

https://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1540288.jpg

^ I tried to base my Dark Elves on something a bit different - super pale, unearthly skin - like vampires, and weird gold.  For the armour I used the new Retributor Gold from GW, washed it with the new Coelia Greenshade - then highlighted with Chainmail.  For the flesh it's Rakarth Flesh then after the wash Vallejo Heavy Warmgrey.

I wanted them to look - lovecraftian, nasty, like they marched out of the sea to attack their warmer cousins.

Anyhow - polished off these two last night at 2am when I couldn't sleep.  My two crossbowmen units.  I have some Corsair models that I might paint up in future to proxy crossbows but right now I'm just trying to scrape 2000 points and say that I've finished another army. =-P

[jchaos79]

Wow , looking really good!

[Stormwind]

OK! Got something to show!

I'm up to 9 painted units so far this year, now!  All 3 of my Cold One Cavalry units and the first Dark Rider unit for my Dark Elves!

[empireaddict]

As always, really nice work.

[mlkr]

There has been so much awesome in this thread since I last checked in. Very cool skintone on the cold ones!


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[Stormwind]

Finally!  Two weeks late but glad they're done and dusted.  Or, I should say, varnished and snow-flocked!

My last 3 units of Dark Elf Dark Riders!

Only things unpainted for DE now are the General, command stands and a Witch Elves unit.

[David Wasilewski]

Really good work on these. A really original and evocative colour scheme. Much more interesting than the usual dark purple and black paint job that most people seem to go for.

Dave

[Stormwind]

Thanks, man!  I couldn't get excited about purple and black - the only purple I'm using with the DE is on the wings of the manticore.

I am planning on using purple as the uniting theme with the Vampire Counts I have...

[marell le fou]

I like the idea of the turquoise color, but i must say this last unit lacks colours. Everything is greyish, base, horses and figs. Maybe horses with a more black colour could add contrast ? They seem dusty just like that.

[Stormwind]

Marell, I am having trouble with a new digital camera, attempting to take a good photo and then sort it out in GIMP is not going so well.

Suffice to say that they look a little better in real life. =-P

[marell le fou]

Oh ok, of course it suffices !