GeOrc
Member
Hi Oldhammer Community,
after 20 years in the Warhammer Fantasy Hobby I returned to my roots and started repainting my first 4th Edition Dark Elves. It all started last year during some vacation in Italy and since then I had a lot of fun to paint the first miniatures with nowadays painting skills. Some of you perhaps noticed my Dark Elves Champion with was my first try on these old beauties.
The Champion won the Golden Gobbo Contest last year and get a lot of positive feedback in social media. Some of the members here motivated me to continue the project here on the board and to post my progress. I hope you enjoy this topic and I am looking forward to a nice and interesting discussion.
I set my first goal to create and paint a small warband in reference to a picture from the 5th Edition Bestiary:
I remember starring on this picture for ages! This was because it contains the miniature of the Black Dragon Rider as well as the two most iconic units, Withc Elves and Cold One Riders. These top three were the reason I decided for this army and starting the Warhammer Hobby. But it also contains the executioners. As I heard that these were never released officially I was very frustrated. Consequently, I starred at this picture in disbelief and sucked in every detail to create some as close as possible related conversions. I never dreamed that I will be able to get my hands on these but finally I was able to get a big unit of these axe wielding guys in the US. Since then the executioners are one of my most beloved unit, as these were linked with a ton of happyness when I fianlly get them in my hands.
I started this project with the Witch Elves unit:
I wanted to paint each available miniature as well as the Talisman plastic Witch Elf which was often used as Champion back in the 90s. Therefore, this unit contains of all 9 available Witch Elf miniatures. So far I have painted 3 Troopers and the Champion. Two more are Work in Progress:
Then, I prepared the Executioner unit and painted the first test Miniatures:
Again the unit contains all eight known executioner miniatures. I used the one with the big axe as a leader and added a generic command crew. I thought a long time if I should paint these guys in red as I used this colour with the Witch Elves reflection their association to the bloody handed god Khaine. Finally, I decieded to go with purple colours similiar to the Beastiary picture as this look creates a much darker and sinister appearance of the miniatures.
Finally, I started my work on the Cold One Riders. I painted the Champion miniature as a test piece and it turned out very good.
I was quickly motivated to create the rest of the unit. I planned 4 Knights and the Command Crew consisting of the Champion and the Standard Bearer. Again I started with the base design and prepared the miniatures. Meanwhile, I get two more Cold Ones prepared and started painting them. These were the last miniatures I painted so far and you see one of them is still WIP:
That´s a short summary of this project so far. There is still a lot of work to do and I will post my further progress here. I would be happy to talk about the Dark Elves of the 90s and to discuss my work in furter detail. From time to time I also summ up my efforts in my Blog: https://georcs-workbench.blogspot.com/ You will finde there more pictures and information about my work.
I hope you enjoy this Log and look forward to your comments.
Kind Regards,
GeOrc
after 20 years in the Warhammer Fantasy Hobby I returned to my roots and started repainting my first 4th Edition Dark Elves. It all started last year during some vacation in Italy and since then I had a lot of fun to paint the first miniatures with nowadays painting skills. Some of you perhaps noticed my Dark Elves Champion with was my first try on these old beauties.
The Champion won the Golden Gobbo Contest last year and get a lot of positive feedback in social media. Some of the members here motivated me to continue the project here on the board and to post my progress. I hope you enjoy this topic and I am looking forward to a nice and interesting discussion.
I set my first goal to create and paint a small warband in reference to a picture from the 5th Edition Bestiary:
I remember starring on this picture for ages! This was because it contains the miniature of the Black Dragon Rider as well as the two most iconic units, Withc Elves and Cold One Riders. These top three were the reason I decided for this army and starting the Warhammer Hobby. But it also contains the executioners. As I heard that these were never released officially I was very frustrated. Consequently, I starred at this picture in disbelief and sucked in every detail to create some as close as possible related conversions. I never dreamed that I will be able to get my hands on these but finally I was able to get a big unit of these axe wielding guys in the US. Since then the executioners are one of my most beloved unit, as these were linked with a ton of happyness when I fianlly get them in my hands.
I started this project with the Witch Elves unit:
I wanted to paint each available miniature as well as the Talisman plastic Witch Elf which was often used as Champion back in the 90s. Therefore, this unit contains of all 9 available Witch Elf miniatures. So far I have painted 3 Troopers and the Champion. Two more are Work in Progress:
Then, I prepared the Executioner unit and painted the first test Miniatures:
Again the unit contains all eight known executioner miniatures. I used the one with the big axe as a leader and added a generic command crew. I thought a long time if I should paint these guys in red as I used this colour with the Witch Elves reflection their association to the bloody handed god Khaine. Finally, I decieded to go with purple colours similiar to the Beastiary picture as this look creates a much darker and sinister appearance of the miniatures.
Finally, I started my work on the Cold One Riders. I painted the Champion miniature as a test piece and it turned out very good.
I was quickly motivated to create the rest of the unit. I planned 4 Knights and the Command Crew consisting of the Champion and the Standard Bearer. Again I started with the base design and prepared the miniatures. Meanwhile, I get two more Cold Ones prepared and started painting them. These were the last miniatures I painted so far and you see one of them is still WIP:
That´s a short summary of this project so far. There is still a lot of work to do and I will post my further progress here. I would be happy to talk about the Dark Elves of the 90s and to discuss my work in furter detail. From time to time I also summ up my efforts in my Blog: https://georcs-workbench.blogspot.com/ You will finde there more pictures and information about my work.
I hope you enjoy this Log and look forward to your comments.
Kind Regards,
GeOrc