Autumn Wood Elves

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Genius, I'm so excited to see the finished, painted model.
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Wow, you have some crazy painting skills and ideas! I especially like the christmas gobbos and the empire conversions. Amazing!
I wish i had the time and skills to paint my models like this :(
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Rabu wrote: I wish i had the time and skills to paint my models like this :(
We all do... for me it's a time issue. That and I'm lazy.
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i can't wait to see what awesome models you'll have painted!
this is really great stuff! :thumbsup:
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I love the cell phone ornaments!!!! I am a bid fan of gothy things like that :nod:

Your Tree Woman is amazing also!!!!! I am working on some scratch built Tree Kin at the moment, and seeing your work is inspirational. I really like the scale pic of the Tree Woman with the Goblins. STOMP!!! LOL!!!! I would love it if you could take a look at my work at give me some pointers on sculpting if you have time. My work is in the "Song of the Grove Kin" thread.
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They're all quit impressive, but I must ask, how did you get that texture on the treewoman? That's what I want my treeman to look like but I can't get the texture in the GS. Is it just a bunch of small marks with modeling tool/the back of an X-acto knife? And how long did the texturing take?
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Thanks everyone :) I'll give you another update with my 6 waywatchers and the treewoman (painted) next weekend I think. :)

Maedhros, I used GW's sculpting tool and pushed/cut the green stuff in random criss cross patterns. I also flattened many of the bumps which are left between the tiny "canyons" made by the sculpting tool. Note that by flattening I mean that I just pushed on them a little bit so that they look more flat and not so round.
Hmm kinda hard to explain... <.< The texturing takes a lot of time on such a big model. But it was fun :)

Skarlock, yeah I'm very fond of the cell phone ornaments ^^ I have to confess, I'm a little borderline goth :P hehe
And yeah it's great that she's so big. It's funny to see her dwarf the opponents ^^
Okay I'll take a look at your log :)
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Anardakil wrote: I could make a simple text painting tutorial for the models if anyone wants to know how I did them. :)
wow... these are really good! much better than mine...
i am doing mine like this and i am really curious how you did them...(i will post some pics of mine over the weekend...)

well done anyway there really awesome!
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Sorry Teleri, but what models do you want a tutorial for? I'm lost in my own thread xD

It's time for another update.

My treewoman has been finished for a long time but I haven't had the opportunity to take any pictures of her until now.

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Other angles: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... TWhger.jpg
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... akifrn.jpg
Base closeup: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... loseup.jpg
Face closeup: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... oseup2.jpg
Back closeup: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... oseup3.jpg
So what do you think? I am very proud of this Ancient. My first sculpted model : D

I've also updated my Luthor Huss model to make the model a bit better looking and make it fit in with my new Empire army.
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Come by again in a little while. I'll upload my waywatchers and 6 more dryads soon. They've been finished for a while.
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Very nice update :nod:
I like the Treewoman. I like the way she doesn't have any eyes, just a glowing ward :thumbsup:
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Thanks . I'm glad you like it. Yeah thought it would be interesting with no eyes, just a glowing ward : )

Here are my Waywathcers (notice the simple freehand swirl-painting on three of the cloaks and one of the quivers. The flesh tones seem a little flat in the pictures. They have more depth IRL.
The flash makes it a bit hard to see but it's on the cloaks of models 3, 4 5 on the pic showing their backs):
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For a bigger pic: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... hers-1.jpg

And some more Dryads:
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For a bigger pic: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... Dryads.jpg

And a drawing of a White Lion for those who wants to see some of my traditional art:
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Excellent stuff as always Anardakil! The White Lion is fantastic - do you have any more "traditional art" to show us?
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Thanks Beithir :)

Sure I do. But I don't want to post art that is not related to Warhammer in this thread. Check out http://shin0.deviantart.com/gallery/ :)
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I just thought you might have some pieces lying around that aren't on your gallery :smirk:
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Great painting and perfect elven art, I say this because I can't quite tell if its meant to be female or its just an effeminate looking elven male, which is exactly what high elves in armour should look like :nod:

I really like the swirls on the waywatchers cloak, it takes a while to notice they are there, which I think is just how a waywatcher would decorate their clothes.
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Great job on the Waywatchers. I really like the colors you used, and the free hand is very subtle and well placed.

I like your art to. On your link, the pic of you titled "<b>[censored]</b>" is cool. I was wondering if you have ever read the Elinor comics before or if it is just a coincidence :confused:
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Thanks everyone :)

Skarlock: Thanks. You mean Lenore - the little dead girl? Yeah I love those comics :) And my name is Elinore so similar but not the same.

Amithela: It's a woman. But I didn't want to draw a female warrior with enormous titty armour ;) Looking at it again though, her face isn't very well drawn at all.

Beithir Seun: Hmm well I add more pics from time to time. :) THanks for the watch.
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You should read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac . I think you would enjoy them.

What is your next project?
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You're right. I should read that comic sometime :) I've seen the creator's show Invader Zim and it's great ^^

I'm currently painting glade riders. I'll try to update in two weeks with painted glade riders and great eagle :) After that I'll paint 20 Eternal guards ^^
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Update time!

This max 900 pixels rule on asrai.org is bugging me. So I'll link to pictures instead. Anyone who wants to see all the pics at once can look at this log's sister at warseer http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.ph ... 09&page=17.

Glade Riders:
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front: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 0small.jpg
side: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 1small.jpg
side: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 2small.jpg
back: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 3small.jpg
back: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 4small.jpg
side: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 5small.jpg

And my great eagle. This one looks better IRL.

side: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 7small.jpg
front: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 6small.jpg
back: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 8small.jpg
side: http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l224/ ... 9small.jpg

This is what I've completed so far:

16 dryads
12 glade guards
6 waywatchers
1 treewoman
1 great eagle
5 glade riders
6" free wood


and what I've got left to do in order to hit the 2250 pts mark:

8 dryads
8 glade guards
20 eternal guards
12 wild riders
2 spellsingers
1 battle standard bearer


leftovers I'll paint last:

4 glade guards
1 battle standard bearer on horse (horse is painted)
2 nobles


I'll put an armyshot up in a day or two : )
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I totally love your army mate!

Awesome paint job, absolutely love your Waywatchers and Glade Riders :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :nod:
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Fantastic work again! I feel like I keep saying the same things over and over again whenever you update, but honestly I can't give you any more praise :D
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I hope you can find the energy to enter the Summer Modeling Challenge.
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Hmm.
Hmmmmm...
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Unicorn is throwing away his brushes and pour all his painted stuff down into garbage...
Hmmmmmmmmm....

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Nice work. I like your color scheme and blending! Your Tree-man is unique. It grows on me. :thumbsup:
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