bretonnian and other oldies

[Aiteal]

Those wood elf spearmen in particular are fantastic, the norman/viking style shields are superb

 

[Punisher Ced]

J'ai toujours détesté les elf mais ceux des annes 80 je les adore!
Belle peinture!

 

[Obscure Creator]

Hi everybody,

I'm back after a long time, due to lack of motivation, but mainly because I was painting a large amount of minis for Infinity.
But I've begun to work again on my wood elves, as I must prepare my army for an incoming campaign starting in septembre with my gaming group.

I've started to paint my eternal guard unit.

For the minis, I've decided to use the old WE spearmen with metal shields from the dark age range of Gripping Beast.
All the shields will be hand painted, and I want to keep the celtic / dark age look of the army, as it fits very well with my own vision of the WE (not as civilized as DE or HE, but not the savages ones sculpted by GW).

Expect more to come, as the spearmen unit will be 30 elves strong, and I have more to paint in the coming days (warhawks, waywatchers, more bowmen, riders,...)

Oh man!! Those shields are AMAZING!!

 

[Dooz]

Absolutely stunning!

 

[tancrede]

Thanks for comment !

I'm not totally dead yet (even if I've started to paint an undead bretonnian army from Moussillon ), but I really lack motivation for painting...
But I finally manage to paint some souts for my wood elves :

Now, I must paint more 90s wood elves bowmen for the next round of our campaign, and finish this spears unit...

 

[Aghast]

Superbly done! I know where i will look for inspiration when i paint my knights!
Thank you for the eyecandy!

 

[tancrede]

After a long break due to painting my Infinity minis and my travel to Japan, I'm back at work, and I've some wood elves on the desk...

First, some WIP :

- more spearmen for my eternal guard, and in formation with the first ones :

- spellsinger and 2 more bowmen :

And some finished objective markers for the running campaign of my gaming group :

And yesterday was a great day, as my 6 yo son painted his first minis :

it seems that a skaven invasion has started at home !

 

[Dooz]

That skaven is pretty brilliant for a 6 yo I'd say, just need some basing and that's it. Now your goal must be to keep him motivated enough to paint an army of those.

 

[Protist]

So much awesome to comment on; great shield designs, overall scheme and the treemen in particular are great.

But... that wizard's horse is absolutely enormous
I have a problem at the mo with a bunch of 80s citadel horses I have being too small for more recent, early 90s riders, its the one place where scale creep becomes really obvious

 

[tancrede]

That skaven is pretty brilliant for a 6 yo I'd say, just need some basing and that's it. Now your goal must be to keep him motivated enough to paint an army of those.

We haven't enough time to do the basing, due to some cooking we have to make (a cake with almonds, nuts and cranberries...).
But next time, he will do the bases, and we will try something different (drybrush + washes).

But... that wizard's horse is absolutely enormous
I have a problem at the mo with a bunch of 80s citadel horses I have being too small for more recent, early 90s riders, its the one place where scale creep becomes really obvious

Agree wih you.
But I have enough horses for my own riders (even if I had to search for tails, as they have none for a long time...).
The wizard's horse comes from the actual HE range. It's in the box of the plastic wizard kit, and you can buy some at some bitz trader on the web.

 

[ardyer]

Those elf shields are amazing!

 

[theottovonbismark]

Those elf shields are amazing!

+1

 

[Fimm McCool]

And yesterday was a great day, as my 6 yo son painted his first minis :

Your son paints better than I do!

 

[tancrede]

Thanks for comments, guys.
I always loved to paint "dark age style" shields, and it's a good training for my coming SAGA warband.

But before that, here are 2 more bretonnian knights on foot :

 

[Asslessman]

Excellent, I'm still in the middle of painting th eone on the left from the adventurer startet set.

Your creamy white with the rich red combine very nicely together. As always, a real pleasure to see !

 

[tancrede]

Here are my latest works.

First of all, a bunch of BA terminators for my V2 Space Hulk set.
Not really Oldhammer, but old enough to my taste...

Next is a newhammer mini, my Wood elves army standard

And last, a WIP of the old Tiranoc chariot (I always loved this mini) :

 

[ardyer]

Love the banner!

 

[tancrede]

Thanks for comment....

For today, I have more wood elves, with a mounted hero and some waywatchers :

As always, more pics on the blog...

 

[Nico]

Superb production, keep the same level and you will get the best oldskool elves army I have seen

 

[tancrede]

Just a few more OldHammer minis from the desk (as I'm painting some 40k minis for commission work, and I've spent most of my time painting my Saxons for SAGA), with 2 more bretonnian footknights and the beginning of the repaint of a v5 bretonnian spearmen unit :

- the knights (done) :

- the spearmen (still WIP, as only the musician and the spearman on the far right are finished) :