Magos Kasen 191 Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Well, finally picked a project (out of many) to commit to for this year. I've been meaning to start this army for a while, and have accumulated a few loose ends along the way. I have very fond memories of 6th edition, and am slowly working on building armies for it. With a few concessions to modern game conventions. I'm a round base convert these days. The plan will be to paint 2000pts of Druchii, but I might start by making a 1000pt list and getting what I need for that. 7 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 191 Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 Terrible photo, but here's the results of two evening's assembly. Ten spearmen down. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RandomAbuse 31 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Love me some dark elves, can't wait to see them painted! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marius 37 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 Dark elves are great (all of the generations of models have been quite good), keen to see these. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 191 Posted Wednesday at 12:24 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 12:24 PM Ok, some average photos of a test mini. Not completely sold on the colours, feel free to suggest changes. I'm trying to strike a balance between nice painting and something I can repeat across whole units. Purple is just classic Druchii. Decided again anything too radical otherwise. Thoughts on the gold edged black armour? 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oceanborn 35 Posted Wednesday at 08:07 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:07 PM Looks good! maybe doing the underskirt in purple as well, and using a slightly different colour on the belt tails to provide a little bit more contrast between them and the skirt(are they they same colour?), but they're just personal preferences so feel free to ignore them 😉 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marius 37 Posted Wednesday at 11:56 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 11:56 PM Agree with Oceanborn. From the front it looks a bit too dark/black. Shield might change that though. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 191 Posted Thursday at 01:27 AM Author Share Posted Thursday at 01:27 AM Thanks guys, you're right it does look dark from the front. I'll try and get a better photo tonight, because the underskirt is actually a sea green colour. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bo Bo 4 Posted Thursday at 01:27 AM Share Posted Thursday at 01:27 AM 13 hours ago, Magos Kasen said: Ok, some average photos of a test mini. Not completely sold on the colours, feel free to suggest changes. I'm trying to strike a balance between nice painting and something I can repeat across whole units. Purple is just classic Druchii. Decided again anything too radical otherwise. Thoughts on the gold edged black armour? I really like it! Its very classic early 00's Dark Elves to me and I like how you've done the armour. I think Marius is on the money re: what you do with the shield. I think that's a good opportunity to work more purple into the scheme and have a splash of colour so it isn't too dark. Though if it'san exhausting scheme to work on, I'd advocate literally anything more enjoyable for your sake. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oceanborn 35 Posted Thursday at 02:06 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:06 AM 35 minutes ago, Magos Kasen said: Thanks guys, you're right it does look dark from the front. I'll try and get a better photo tonight, because the underskirt is actually a sea green colour. In that case it should be fine 😉 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marius 37 Posted Thursday at 05:58 AM Share Posted Thursday at 05:58 AM I would also give thought to the shield and the device on it as that may solve the problem. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 191 Posted Thursday at 12:18 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 12:18 PM And now with shield... 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oceanborn 35 Posted Thursday at 07:31 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:31 PM (edited) Looks good. The shield definitely helps with the overall darkness from the front of the model. edit: looking at this on a different monitor there is a lot more contrast in the model than I originally thought. Edited Thursday at 10:07 PM by Oceanborn Looked at it on a better monitor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marius 37 Posted Thursday at 09:57 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:57 PM Agree, makes a huge difference. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 191 Posted Friday at 01:32 AM Author Share Posted Friday at 01:32 AM Thanks guys, I agree, the shield really extends the purple colour scheme to the front of the model as well. One more photo I forgot to add last night, showing some more assembly progress. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marius 37 Posted Friday at 01:41 AM Share Posted Friday at 01:41 AM (edited) looking good those elves of the true king. Any of that done with GW contrast? Looking at the pile and hopeful that they might be something to help get through it. Edited Friday at 01:42 AM by marius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bo Bo 4 Posted Friday at 03:48 AM Share Posted Friday at 03:48 AM Is that Delf a quarter pounder? Because I'm mclovin it! The shield really pops and ties it all together for me. Please sir may I have another? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
korocite 111 Posted Friday at 10:54 AM Share Posted Friday at 10:54 AM 22 hours ago, Magos Kasen said: And now with shield... That is a fine colour scheme. I like the use of a small area of sea green. Any more and it would have clashed with the purple. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 191 Posted Friday at 12:31 PM Author Share Posted Friday at 12:31 PM Thanks guys! Keeping me motivated haha. Marius, I used contrast paints to shade the metallics and flesh. I'm mostly sticking with old fashioned layering for these, but I'm a fan of contrast paints for a lot of jobs. Enjoy a potato camera work bench shot of tonight's progress. Couldn't quite get all four finished in one sitting. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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