Oldhammer Wood Elves...Update 4.7.15

guitarheroandy

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I tend to lurk here rather than post a lot, but having posted these pics on LAF, a friend of mine has advised me to post them here also.

These are classic 80s Elves, painted as part of a war band for the upcoming Osprey rules Dragon Rampant (fantasy version of the medieval Lion Rampant rules). I have been lucky enough to get a pre-publication copy from the author as a 'thank you' for playtesting some other rules he's writing and this has sparked me into painting the collection I have sourced from EBAY over the past 2 years. I was originally intending to paint them as High Elves and did actually get the general and war dancer done all that time ago, but never got any further. Anyway, the General has been reworked into traditional Wood Elf colours. The two knights have also been painted in layers on black undercoat. This cavalry unit will be the last models I paint in this style, as my eyesight is not what it was and they just take me ages to do. The rank and file archers and spearmen of the force will therefore be painted in my 'dip and highlights' style. I'll post some examples of the latter soon as I'm in the middle of a unit of each of spearmen and archers right now.

Anyway, the General and two knights... Enjoy...



PS... Sorry if the pics are too big!!! :?
 
Re: Oldhammer Wood Elves...

Stellar work on fantastic models. I look forward to watching the force grow! I'm also looking forward to the DR rules but am settling for some Lion Rampant for the moment. Forces for those games are a perfect mid way goal to completing a WFB Army.

Cheers,

Blue
 
Re: Oldhammer Wood Elves...

Nicely done sir, the jewels are particularly fine details. :grin:

Paul / Golgfag1
 
Re: Oldhammer Wood Elves...

Here's a unit of 'Elite Foot' for my Dragon Rampant Wood Elves. The unit was painted differently to the knights, as I undercoated white. The mail was then painted black and dry brushed with whatever GW currently call the old Boltgun Metal and Chainmail. I then base coated everything else with mid-tone colours before brushing on Army Painter Strong Tone dip. i left this 48 hours before dullcoting the models. I then highlighted up using the base coat colour plus an extra lighter highlight on everything. This is slightly different to my usual dip and highlight approach, which base coats with the lightest shade and only highlights once with that same shade. However, I think this new method looks closer to my old Dallimore-esque technique - not quite as good, but much closer! The shields were layer painted - never use dip on shields!!

The models have mostly been converted with wire spear shafts and spearheads from the current High Elf spearmen, or similar...I got them from one of the online 'bits' people... I bought a couple of the spearmen damaged off EBAY with knackered swords so decided to buy and convert...

The pics were a bit rushed, but I hope you get the idea.



Archers coming next...
 
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