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Aiya!.

I´m thinking on some thing to introduce myself in The Glade of Gathering, but i think that the best way is to show my Defenders!.

First of all: Sorry about my english writing, but i´m not an native speaker, so i have my limitations :cry: .

I choose a dark colour scheme for these little elves. I wanted to give them a chromatic scale wich consist in purples, blues, peacock blue (?), etc. And for skins, i wanted to use a mixture of purple-elfskin (only purple have no "healthy" effect).

Well, the pictures:

My Hghborn!

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My Glade Riders:

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My Tree-kins: (here i wanted to investigate with a purple color instead of brown, maybe too purple :smoke: )

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My Tree-man: It was my first base. So i think it´s the best one i have :lol: .
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But i chaged the brown for the purple one. What do you think about this change?
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Some of my glade guard: (i made an movement base for them, but i don´t have photos right now):

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Mi first Eternal Guards (my firs NMM): (i didn´t end bases, some day, hehe)

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My Dryads and Drycha (Drycha is painted with a different colur-scheme of my dryads, some day i have to repaint her)

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My Wardancers (My second simple NMM :lol: ): Without Bases

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And the last and the worst One: My first Kurnous with a failure dipping experiment in this poor horse. (I have to reset it, hehe), and raider have no sword (where is it? i don´t know :lol: ).

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I made movement bases for treekins, 20 glade guards (not photographied all of them), 5 glade riders, and for kurnous riders (only one painted)

You can see that i had no conversions, I like so much the new wood elves style (and because of my laziness :lol: ), so i didn´t finished any conversion yet. I´m working on two conversions (but i don´t have any photo yet)
- An alter-noble, made with sprues of glade guard and a beastman legs. And double-sword made with two ork-swords (filed of course) and some details made with green-stuff (nothing marvellous).
- A personal version of "spellsinger mounted on unicorn" made in a scenic base with the model of wood-elf female spellsinger with scepter, fellowed by a tigress (hasslefree) as a "pet" (the original idea was to mount this spellsinger on tigress, but the difference of scales turns it riddiculous) stroked in the head by the spellsinger. I didn´t begin with this proyect yet, but it was all in my mind. Someday i´ll post it! (i have a tourney this august, and i want to finish it before that).


I hope you like, at least a few aspects of my army. And i´ll be very glad if someone have a little inspiration about it.

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You have a very nice colour scheme coming along, it gives off a nice nocturnal feel while remaining visually interesting. Your painting is also above the standard of most armies I see locally, so good job!
If you're looking to improve, try thinning your paints a bit more with water. You should also try to make the transition between two paints a little less obvious by mixing 50:50 of each before committing to the lighter one. This will dull the sharp lines of highlight you have now.

I'd like to see more of your work. :sexy:
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Ryikko wrote:You have a very nice colour scheme coming along, it gives off a nice nocturnal feel while remaining visually interesting. Your painting is also above the standard of most armies I see locally, so good job!
I was thinking the same :sexy:

I really like the Treeman and Drycha
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Ryikko wrote:You have a very nice colour scheme coming along, it gives off a nice nocturnal feel while remaining visually interesting. Your painting is also above the standard of most armies I see locally, so good job!
Thank you, it was my intention. I imagine my elves living in a mystical forest, and making camo for that kind of forest. And night elves from Warcraft III were a good inspiration for this atmosphere.
Ryikko wrote:If you're looking to improve, try thinning your paints a bit more with water. You should also try to make the transition between two paints a little less obvious by mixing 50:50 of each before committing to the lighter one. This will dull the sharp lines of highlight you have now.
Hehe, you´re right about transitions, so i´m very lazy to correct painted ones, so i´ll do it in my future jobs. And about thinning my paints, I try to add more water, so there´re some minis that i forgot to make it.

Thank you for your constructive critic :)
brundo wrote: I really like the Treeman and Drycha
Hehe, i like the result of drycha me too. But it was one of my first painted minis of this army, and i use a little bit different colour scheme. I should use a more "blued" green.

Thank you for your comments! :sexy:
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I'll comment with a question: Do you play WoW maybe? :D
Which server? :paranoid: :o

Btw, you took my idea with purple. Now I have to start painting stuff before its too late.
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Heh, i don´t play WoW, i used to play Warcraft III, but long time ago.

I´m surprised about i haven´t seen any colur scheme with purples for Wood Elves, it was the first colour scheme i thought. :lol:
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Right now i´m painting a new tau army, so i put my wood elves at the end of my paint-queue. But i have a tournament in three months. so i began to finishing my army.

The last thing i painted was wild riders horses. According to my colur-scheme army. And a bit different than the last one, so that kurnous is needing a bath into brake liquid.

New steeds:

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You need cats a steeds :)

I have considered hav cat steed a long time, it would be really cool.
A warcraft 3 miniatures game would be nice.
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You could use the High Elf lions for cats. :)

I'm also a fan of the scheme and painting.
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I thought about using cat a steeds from Mars Ultor, but i really love actual wood elves' steeds. So i prefer to use them

Now my new painting, a spellsinger, one of my favourites miniatures from wood elves army.

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Hope you can find the time to enter on of the Modelling Challenges.
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The colours you've picked are absolutely stunning, very good job.
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That is an awesome paint scheme. It seems to draw you into a nocturnal world of slaughter in the woods. Those guys could hide in a Dark Elf regiment. I wish I could paint like that :(
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I saw that this month´s modelling challenge is a highborn mounted on an eagle. So recently i purchased a gamezone eagle. This time i want to participate, so here you can see my advances on this model:

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About ensambling this model, i use an invented method. Ankle-pinning (sorry about my english):

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Now a little bit of Tamiya Stuff:

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And the same for the other wing:

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Ensambling the wings in the body:

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And patience to make this mix of cyanocrilate and stuff becomes hard as a stone (while i see an episode of Deadwood):

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At the next day (a few minutes ago), i began with the base. So i use plastic tree of GW forest.

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Can you tell me any advice about hiding the rod?.

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More advances of my eagle rider:

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I thought about this tree, and i decided to cut some branches, so this is the final disposition of my eagle rider:

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I like the eagle and the tree, but it's kind of hard to make out the rider :(

Can we see some more pics of him/her?
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Certainly is very difficult to see any more of this noble, so more pics of her:

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Ooo so there IS a person there :D

I like it! Can't wait to see it painted.
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This afternoon i began to paint this figure. First of all the tree:

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the shining of the Owl have very dirty brushes. So i have to improve my technic about that. Btw, i like the effect.

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Well, i have this mini at 95% over!. I have to illuminate red and black feathers, paint feet, and more things. But it´s enough for today!.

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what's the thinking behind undercoating with a metallic paint? I've not seen that before.
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shiodome wrote:what's the thinking behind undercoating with a metallic paint? I've not seen that before.
undercoating with a metallic paint?, I don't understand it. I suppose that the misunderstanding is about the photo with this figure undercoated, that i used flash, so it seems to be metallic. But i undercoat all my minis with citadel black spray.
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ah ok, it's just this picture http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn16 ... G_2288.jpg looked very metallic, so i thought there might be some interesting stuff going on ;)
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The colours on that eagle are wonderful.
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