pahvivalmiste
Vassal
Hello,
I’d like to represent my 2400 point vintage Citadel/Marauder dark elf army as my first post on this forum. While the army is old, from 3rd edition era, I’ve just finished painting it. I’ve owned some of the models from early 1990’s, some of the models were bought from friendly internet people or from online auctions.
My main army is vintage dwarfs, but I started (or should I say returned to) this army as a side project last autumn. Models were assembled (there are lots of conversions) and painted after Christmas 2012, e.g. in about two months. This was a speed painting project, which means I used Army Painter Dip for the first time.
The dip worked ok in general, I only had to put extra attention to skin colour as it didn’t look good. Well there was some pouring… but I do think that the end result looks reasonable considering the time spend. After basecoat, dip and matt varnish I just added a few highlights and everything was almost ready. Standards, shields and some small details were then painted by hand and the bases finished.
If you have simple tips to improve the overall look of the army (it looks a little dark - I could add some highlights etc.), I’m open to ideas. All comments and questions are also welcome. But… here we go:
Cold One Knights + Battle Standard Bearer
Some riders are dark elves, some are high/wood elves. Battle Standard Bearer is on the right.
Repeater Crossbowmen + Supreme Sorceress
I had to sculpt some crossbows for the crossbowmen as these were missing (I used the same pattern crossbows for Dark Riders). Also, there’s an unit filler here.
Black Ark Corsairs + Sorcerer (!?)
The cloaks were hastily sculpted, as Corsairs didn’t exist at the time. I just used models with handbows.
Dark Riders
These are mostly converted wood elves
Master on Dark Pegasus
Horse build with old eagle wings.
Harpies (Ral Partha)
These are sculpted by the same guy who did harpies for Citadel (Bob Olley). As I only have two Citadel Harpies I used these.
Shades
A few hand weapons added to original models.
War Hydra
It’s small, but it’s genuine
Reaper Bolt Thrower(s)
Crews are small even compared to other figures of the same era.
Unfinished:
http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q50 ... 94b9f5.jpg
Converted Black Guard, third unit of Dark Riders etc. I also have a chariot conversion on the works.
So… I plan to finish the rest of the models in the near future, which means I’ll be eventually able to field a 3000 point army (or 2400 point army with some options) for 8th edition. Thanks for looking!
P.S. My dwarf blog is on another forum, but here’s a link to one picture in case you’re interested: http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q50 ... myshot.jpg
I’d like to represent my 2400 point vintage Citadel/Marauder dark elf army as my first post on this forum. While the army is old, from 3rd edition era, I’ve just finished painting it. I’ve owned some of the models from early 1990’s, some of the models were bought from friendly internet people or from online auctions.
My main army is vintage dwarfs, but I started (or should I say returned to) this army as a side project last autumn. Models were assembled (there are lots of conversions) and painted after Christmas 2012, e.g. in about two months. This was a speed painting project, which means I used Army Painter Dip for the first time.
The dip worked ok in general, I only had to put extra attention to skin colour as it didn’t look good. Well there was some pouring… but I do think that the end result looks reasonable considering the time spend. After basecoat, dip and matt varnish I just added a few highlights and everything was almost ready. Standards, shields and some small details were then painted by hand and the bases finished.
If you have simple tips to improve the overall look of the army (it looks a little dark - I could add some highlights etc.), I’m open to ideas. All comments and questions are also welcome. But… here we go:
Cold One Knights + Battle Standard Bearer
Some riders are dark elves, some are high/wood elves. Battle Standard Bearer is on the right.
Repeater Crossbowmen + Supreme Sorceress
I had to sculpt some crossbows for the crossbowmen as these were missing (I used the same pattern crossbows for Dark Riders). Also, there’s an unit filler here.
Black Ark Corsairs + Sorcerer (!?)
The cloaks were hastily sculpted, as Corsairs didn’t exist at the time. I just used models with handbows.
Dark Riders
These are mostly converted wood elves
Master on Dark Pegasus
Horse build with old eagle wings.
Harpies (Ral Partha)
These are sculpted by the same guy who did harpies for Citadel (Bob Olley). As I only have two Citadel Harpies I used these.
Shades
A few hand weapons added to original models.
War Hydra
It’s small, but it’s genuine
Reaper Bolt Thrower(s)
Crews are small even compared to other figures of the same era.
Unfinished:
http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q50 ... 94b9f5.jpg
Converted Black Guard, third unit of Dark Riders etc. I also have a chariot conversion on the works.
So… I plan to finish the rest of the models in the near future, which means I’ll be eventually able to field a 3000 point army (or 2400 point army with some options) for 8th edition. Thanks for looking!
P.S. My dwarf blog is on another forum, but here’s a link to one picture in case you’re interested: http://i1161.photobucket.com/albums/q50 ... myshot.jpg
I'll try to finish the rest of the models and participate on the board too.
They mix in so well with the Citadel AD&D DE models and there's a real variety of sculpts to choose from to the point that there's possibly too much variation if you try to include everything. Sure some sculpts are just head/weapon swaps but they rank up very nicely imo and don't look too repetitive as a unit.