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July 21, 2010September 16, 2015

Mounted Lord

A mounted wood elf lord. What can I say, it is my least favourite model (with perhaps the exception of Ariel). The horse is nice, I like the horse, always have despite it’s rather cartoonish appearance. The figure… well where to start. Not a great sculpt very 2 dimensional with an arm out either side holding a weapon. A big crested helmet with no other piece of armour whatsoever save a biggish belt. Then there is my paint job, terrible drybrush highlighting of the blue cloak to start with and then for some god awful reason I thought green gloves and boots would look good with yellow YELLOW clothes and a blue cloak. I’m a guy, I’m not particularly colour sensitive but even to me this is a horror. This is one model that I will happily repaint. I dislike it intensely. But it is posted here as a historical record of something I will hopefully find the time at some point to expunge.

July 20, 2010July 23, 2010

US infantry 2x Companies Part 2

OK decided to do a full test figure before going holas bolas into the production line.

Steps are:

Base coats over black undercoat leaving the valleys

Ink coat

High light by dry brush.

And the example is here:

Base coated only photos above

Base coated and inked photos above

Base coated, inked and drybrush hi-lited above

So there you have it.

I’m happy with the result this gives. A good tabletop paint job.

Plenty of room for errors with the brush which the shading and hi-lite errodes away.

I will have to get the helmet paint better though.. perhaps some flow medium.

I’m excited now that I see some results.. I think I should paint a trial fig on every project… just for the fun of it.

Night everyone 🙂

July 20, 2010September 16, 2015

High Elf Elyrian Reavers

My five old school High Elf Elyrian Reavers. When I started my woodelf army back in 1995 there were no cav models and I was desperate to have cavalry as I was and am a big fan of cav, afterall I wanted a Bretonian army. Nevertheless whilst Glade Riders were on the cards they weren’t yet out and certainly not in my corner of the world so I purchased a box of five Elyrian Reavers. They’re elves afterall, have bows and spears so close enough. These are therefore another unit painted very early on in my painting ‘career’ and as is my way follows quite closely (or as closely as my skill allowed) the GW colour scheme. At one point I sold them to somebody (having later purchased real glade riders) as high elves. I hated myself for it an later bought them back, very embarrassing. I still like them and still field them as Glade Riders in my wood elf army. At some point I might re-acutalise my high elf army (I briefly had the beginnings of one though these reavers were the only painted component) and they can go back to being Reavers, albeit very old style.