Magos Kasen 205 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 205 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 51 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 205 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 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 49 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 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 51 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 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 205 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 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 21 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 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 49 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 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 51 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 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 205 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 And now with shield... 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oceanborn 49 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 (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 January 14 by Oceanborn Looked at it on a better monitor Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marius 51 Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Agree, makes a huge difference. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 205 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 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 51 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (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 January 15 by marius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bo Bo 21 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 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 132 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 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 205 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 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
marius 51 Posted January 18 Share Posted January 18 Nice work they should look great as a unit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
korocite 132 Posted January 21 Share Posted January 21 On 1/18/2021 at 4:37 PM, marius said: Nice work they should look great as a unit. Agreed. They will look spectacular en masse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magos Kasen 205 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 Ok, a productive week overall, I've finished 12 of the spearmen (sans shields) and the bases. Final four are in progress. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
musterkrux 143 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Love the basing on those bases and movement tray. Colour scheme on the spearmen also swish. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
korocite 132 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 They look fantastic. The snow bases are perfect. What did you use for them? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Play The Gray 36 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Gotta love a purple and teal scheme, they look great! I'm sure the shields will add to the awesomeness as well once they go on. Also keen to hear what you used for the basing, I have 2000 points of Ogors on square bases that need to go on rounds at some point and have been testing some different snow options but not completely happy with any of them. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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