The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Shot

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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 23 Jan

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Tenaka wrote:Rowena - You need to add your painting blog onto here as you've got a really unique and purest take on the Asrai that I've not seen on here before - I think alot of people will like it.
*blushes* I was thinking about it, but... the painting standard of this forum is so high and I just didn't dare. They are my first figures ever.
But thank you both for the compliment and the suggestion, I will think about it again. *smiles and blushes once more*
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 23 Jan

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Extrordinary freehand work on that banner. It's coming together as a beautiful army!
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 23 Jan

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Absolutley stunning!
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 23 Jan

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Thank you for the positive comments guys - it's slow but steady progress.

I've completed my block of 20 Glade Guard which will form the heart of my Sentinel Army.

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The Silver Guard

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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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Those look real good, especially with the orange background.
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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Loving the colour scheme. The treeman is just awesome! I want to build myself one now and use my old treeman as treekin.
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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Wow, these are really nice, a very striking concept and well executed. Keep up the good work. :thumbsup:
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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I think we should Knight this guy or something... Knight of the brush?
Sir, you are awesome.
It´s really cool to have something written here.
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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An amazing amount of love, effort, skill and no doubt time being put in here! You inspire us all! :nod: Look forward to seeing more. I think your freehand is something in its own realm of awesomeness!
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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The faces are incredible. Can you make a short tutorial on this?
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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Goodness, thank you all for the comments. I have just started on my converted Spellweaver and will use that model for a tutorial on faces. Apologies if I'm slow to bring it up, I'm just a terribly slow painter! Just for tasters, here is a WIP shot of the Spellweaver, Cenarius. As you can see, it's a fairly simply conversion but gives me lots of flat space to add some personal touches with the brush. I'm really looking forward to trying to do the model justice.

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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade (Updated 7 Mar G

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Lovely as always. I can't wait to see your heroes, when "simple" Glade Guard is painted to this standard.
The Spellweaver conversion looks very pretty, I look forward to seeing what you do with her. :)
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 24 Mar - Spellwe

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I'm pleased to finally present Cenarius, Spellweaver of the Amber Glade. It is a hugely popular model, and justifiably so - it's a real pleasure to paint. I've done a simple conversion using the Harlequin Shadowseer legs which gives it some added height and elegance.

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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 24 Mar - Spellwe

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Really nice job on the spellweaver. Love the way you manged to soften the features on the face.
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 24 Mar - Spellwe

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Thanks a lot Rab - as for the face, as promised, I've put together a short tutorial on painting the face. The photos aren't too clever I'm afraid and I'm yet to try the new GW paint range so my palette is still using old paints but hopefully some people will find it helpful. I have used the GW conversion chart for paints to put the new colours in brackets.

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The model was sprayed skull white. The face has a single watered down coat of Tallarn Flesh (Cadian Fleshtone).

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I then give the face a single layer of watered down Elf Flesh (Kislev Flesh).

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Two washes of Ogryn Flesh (Reikland Fleshshade).

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I then highlight with watered down Elf Flesh (Kislev Flesh) and Skull White (White Scar) mixture. This starts of as 3:1 Elf Flesh to Skull White and ends up almost pure white (but watered down). This is the stage that really takes the time and effort. The key is knowing what to highlight: cheekbones, jaw line, brow and nose. This should contrast with the darker shades in the recesses of the eye sockets, hair line and checks (i think elves should have elegant, almost gaunt checks - not ruddy 'friar tuck' style chops). The teeth have been touched white as well.

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That is the face complete. The eyes are painted Skull White first, then Scorched Brown (Rhinox Hide), then Chaos Black (Abaddon Black). This model has the easiest eyes to paint so my efforts with the Glade Guard are not always this successful!
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 24 Mar-Face Tuto

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Love how your white/orange/purple color scheme gives the army a unique feeling where they really stand out as noble and proud elves (quite like the white high elves) but yet keep that naturalistic feeling that marks them as guardians an autumn forest.

Nice freehand details and brush control always impresses. :)
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 24 Mar-Face Tuto

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Wow, the spellweaver is lovely. The conversion is so smooth I would have never guessed the model was altered at all (if I didn't know the original DE sorceress, of course :) ) Great job as always, I look forward to any new models from you. .)
And thanks for the tutorial, I must try it one day.
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 24 Mar-Face Tuto

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Imp, Rowena, thank you for your kind comments - it is always encouraging.

I have finally got round to finishing my first unit of Dryads. Comments, critique and general feedback welcome as ever.

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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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They look awesome, I love the dynamic poses. :)
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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These are extremely cool. The orange and the purple contrast nicely. Plus the painting standard is really high - well done
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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I love this color scheme you have. I have not thought of applying the birch tree look onto the attire of the wood elves. Very well painted and very original imo. I was also painting some of my dryads to look like birch, but I am doing a spring theme for my wood elves instead of autumn. I like seeing some of the older models too because I started after the whole model update. I love how all your models came out! By the way, I absolutely love your banner! You must have a steady hand and a lot of patience. The banner is definitely one of my favorites. =]
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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When I first saw this thread last year, I thought... Yeah cool, but he ain't gonna wanna carry that across an entire army.

I'm glad to say you proved me wrong, the army looks awesome and you've continued the same high standard throughout :)

Great looking army- really well done
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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Wow what an amazing army you have!
The treeman is my favorite he's sooo cool!
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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This is my favourite army and I just can't wait for any new painted models. I completely understand that this level of quality needs time, though. :)
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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade 29 Apr - Dryads

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Beautiful army!
I have to ask (I don't know if anyone else has asked) but where did you get the "brass" leaves on your tree man and dryads?
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