Showing posts with label Wood Elves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wood Elves. Show all posts

Thursday, September 17, 2009

It's been awhile

Sorry I haven't updated this blog in about a month, but I have been painting. In the past 3 weeks I painted an entire 2250 Wood Elf army for a tournament this weekend. To get this army done I employed the famous "dip" method.


All the Elves and Treekin/Treeman were primed using army painter leather brown primer. They were then basecoated with very few highlights, and then I painted on Army Painter strong tone. After waiting a few seconds I removed any obvious puddling of the dip. I then sprayed a dull coat over them to remove the shine.

They aren't my best paint jobs, but I am proud of them and a firm believer in the dip method. As usual there a few mold lines and areas that I "went out of the lines" on so please ignore those and remember I just want tabletop quality figs that look good from 3 feet away.

Paints used - Basic trooper - Leather Brown Primer/Catachan Green (cloaks)/Snot Green/Desert Yellow (hair and straps)/Terracotta/Dwarf Flesh and Bleached Bone (bows).



Glade Riders - Same as trooper. Horses were primed white with desert yellow for the manes. The tattoos were done using an ultra fine sharpie with green or blue.




Treekin/treeman - Primed brown/highlighted with Graveyard Dirt & Kommando Khaki before dip. Snot green for leaves. Used old treemen models for the Treekin and a LotR Ent for my Treeman.



Alter Lord - Used the Eternal Guard champion model and did a basic weapon swap for the bow.


And here is one of my Wild Riders.