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Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 12 Dec 2013, 02:31
by popisdead
The watchtower looks great :thumbsup:

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 12 Dec 2013, 02:59
by Hit In Face
Slowly starting to work my way though back posts. May take a few months! This is a really really fun army. It's very well rendered and has a distinctive and striking palette.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 31 Dec 2013, 20:24
by Serafin
Amazing!
I´ve always liked your army and now I come back after a pause and see one of the most beautiful trees I´ve seen.
The branches of leaves don´t look like those brass leaves you linked earlier, where did you get them from? (I really need to work on my Elves too...)
For the name... I don´t know how you keep it, but I like using gaelic words for elvish.
Oir Crainn?
It means golden tree, lame I know but maybe it helps you out XD

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 31 Dec 2013, 20:35
by Wargaming93
Incredible.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 02 Jan 2014, 00:12
by Tenaka
Firstly, a very Happy New Year to you all - here's hoping 2014 brings us some new models and a new Army Book!

Thank you all for your very kind and encouraging comments. They are very welcomed and a pleasure to read. I'm making slow but steady progress on the next unit of Glade Guard and then I'm going to do a Great Eagle or two.

Serafin - the foliage is preserved sesame blossom. Hard to come by here in the UK but pretty common in the US (where mine came from). I actually trimmed the foliage from a spare tree I had from the range I bought from Sterling Models which I used to make my 'free' wood. I hope that helps. Finally, thank you very much for the name suggestion - I really like the concept of using Gaelic and will use that more widely for the Army. Thanks once again.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 02 Jan 2014, 12:59
by Bolg.
Just found this blog. love the painting (and sculpting) of all the forest spirits.

Defiantly going to try the wood texture you use soon.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade -Wood Elf Watcht

Posted: 19 Feb 2014, 21:01
by Tenaka
Finally finished another Glade Guard unit taking my Army to 1500pts. I can't believe it has taken me 3 years to get only this far but I was never in a rush and in truth, there are other priorities in life. Sorry for the poor photo but taking an Army shot is not as easy as I thought.

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Will be taking a break from this Army for a while. Partly work related but also to turn my hand to another project. I'm hoping however new Wood Elf models later in the year will be my inspiration to return to it and get the Army up to 2000pts.

Cheers

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 20 Feb 2014, 07:42
by robtion
Your WE army is awesome! I really like the colour scheme you have gone with, and your painting is great. White is not easy to paint.

The glade riders are particularly nice, as is the watch tower and custom made Treeman/kin. Though the treeman looks a little to friendly for my taste :)

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 20 Feb 2014, 10:23
by Wargaming93
3 years worth the wait if you ask me! Truely amazing models.

And best of luck with future projects! I can tell they will be of great standard and hopefully see you back with us and your woodelves soon...

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 21 Feb 2014, 04:23
by Glade_Runner
3 years of amazing work.
Really great looking army!

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 23 Feb 2014, 13:34
by Rowena
All together the army is even more impressive. It's breathtakingly beautiful, both by the painting skill and the choice of colours. I especially like the smoothness and elegance of it all, to which the wise treeman (rather than a really menacing moster) fits perfectly.
I hope you will return lured by new models, I would really love to see more of this army.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 23 Feb 2014, 22:22
by Tenaka
Thank you all so much for such wonderful comments. This has been a hugely supportive forum and I have enjoyed the interaction with such enthusiastic and talented modellers. I will continue to watch everyones updates and I'm looking forward to the surge of Asrai activity when our new models come in.

Rowena - thanks for your long term support. It has been greatly appreciated and I'm delighted that you enjoy the army so much. :thumbsup:

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 24 Feb 2014, 02:13
by Playonwords
Glade_Runner wrote:3 years of amazing work.
Really great looking army!
Wow - it really has been 3 years since you started this. I remember giving the first comment - how time flies! The army really does look good though. So unique and really well painted.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 05 Mar 2014, 10:43
by SquidBoy
Exellent armyshot! lovely vivid colors. love it! It must really pop on the battlefield and I bet your opponents are awestruck :)

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 25 Jan 2015, 16:42
by WilcoH
Hi Tenaka, Beautiful and truely unique army you've created. Great work.

I was only wondering what type of leaves you used for the watchtower :) What brand or site etc?
Have been looking for those/similar looking ones for quite a while now, but can't really find anything that looks as good.

Greetings.

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 25 Jan 2015, 23:56
by nXken
Truely amazing!!!!

never saw this thread before!

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 26 Jan 2015, 01:12
by Sunshine coconut
Wow! One of the most impressive jobs I've seen!
The skin on your elves are amazing! as well as the colour contrasts :)

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 02 Feb 2015, 06:43
by Syphilis
Wow, I jsut saw the leaf details on your glade riders...I'm going to use that idea if you don't mind!

Re: The Silver Sentinels of The Amber Glade - 1500pt Army Sh

Posted: 29 Mar 2015, 23:20
by Tenaka
WilcoH - sorry for the slow reply. It's been many months since I've been on Asrai. The leaves are Sesame Bloom, also known as Candytuft or Peppergrass. I actually stripped them from a spare birch tree I ordered from Stirling Models in the US that I used to make the Birch Glade. Their trees are superb and their packaging ideal for posting around the world - I live in the UK - not the US.

I hope your project goes well.

Thanks everyone else for your kind comments. It'd be nice to return to Asrai with some new models. I think the Sisters would suit the theme of this Army well. Just have to finished off a Beastmen Army first.