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Author:  Lhosseth [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 6:54 pm ]
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a.ka. an unexpected parcel.

For I was quite surprised to see my first order of Mirkwood Elves arriving as early as it did today.

Missing here are Tauriel and the swords man. I believed myself wise enough not to buy all the figueres from this range. I proved wrong XD Last monday I did finally cave in and order those as well.

If there are people interested in photo's of separate sprews, let me know so. I don't get to assembling until tomorrow, so I can take pictures until then. After assembling, I'll be posting pictures of them again.

Since I ordered over 150 euro's, my order came in this huge holiday box.

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After removing all the coverings, it looked like this:

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On to the figures:

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Mirkwood Armoured Elf Spearmen:

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Mirkwood Armoured Elf Bowmen:
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Mirkwood Armoured Elf Captain
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Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm
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Somehow, my lamp and the plastic of the packing left an amazing pallantir effect on the base in the second photo :-D

Legolas Greenleaf, Prince of Mirkwood

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Mirkwood Armoured Elf Cavalry
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A pity with these guys is how the horses are almost the same pose, I think only the head and necks are different. The pictures on GW show them from different angles, making them look quite different.
Author:  Stros006 [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:17 pm ]
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Wow , they look amazing, especially liking the fact that the Mirkwood spearmen's spears are all one piece and are not two parts, I.E a hand has to connect to the spear.

Also that box is massive, I've ordered three full warbands of these elves and Im so glad I did now looking at the sculpts. :D

Hope you enjoy putting them together and ill be following your progress of putting them together! :) :D

If possible could you give me some close ups of the spearmen sprues?
Author:  turwaitheon [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:18 pm ]
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Well, I've seen Thranduil and the horse and the mirkwood knights, as a matter of fact I've got them.
Regarding the Knights: not only the heads and necks are different. The sword arms and the legs are different too! I've already made some different poses. One has bit of a balance problem, though.
Author:  Coenus Scaldingus [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 8:33 pm ]
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Regarding the cavalry, while I do like that the two sword-arms, knight heads, horse heads and right legs are interchangable (not sure if both heads connect well with both frontlegs, but there shouldn't be much of a problem if there is a gap), I did indeed expect entirely different sculpts, as is the norm for any other model I can think of. Although some variety can thus be achieved, the fact that the left legs, tail and cloak are exactly the same will be noticable, sadly.
Author:  Sacrilege83 [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:57 pm ]
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Somebody has themselves a MirKwood army. Hope you have the Rangers and Palace Guards to go along with them, a full Mirkwood armada.
Author:  Lhosseth [ Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:35 pm ]
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*laughs* I actually have those yes, I think I have all the Mirkwood figueres that were released in lat year's batch. I'm not a little elf-obsesed at al lol

I'm glad to hear there is some more difference between the cavalry as well. Seeing how the parts could be interchangeable, I could see some another of that set coming this way in the long run.

Stros006, sure, I can make close-up of those tomorrow
Author:  jdizzy001 [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 3:44 pm ]
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Where's tauriel? No ape faced she elf for you? Okay, in all fairness, I'm sure the tariel on the gw site is just poorly painted.... So poorly painted....
Author:  Coenus Scaldingus [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 3:57 pm ]
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Aye, really looking forward to seeing either alternative paintjobs, or pictures of an unpainted resin Tauriel - curious how much better (or worse, could it be?) it is than the plastic version.
Author:  valpas [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:08 pm ]
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The cavalry looks very nice. I'm glad I chose Wood Elves for the Tale of 20 Painters. :-)

-- Pasi
Author:  Lhosseth [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 6:39 pm ]
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jdizzy001 wrote:
Where's tauriel? No ape faced she elf for you? Okay, in all fairness, I'm sure the tariel on the gw site is just poorly painted.... So poorly painted....


I wanted to be a good girl and not order everything in one batch. So I left Tauriel and the sword man out of this order.

Needless to say, I failed. Tauriel and the swordman are still on their way now :oops: Housemate got tired of me going on about them lol

The faces from the batch I have here are quite better than the ones on GWs site, so I guess Tuariel is suffering for the same issues. When she arrives, pictures will come.
Author:  Sacrilege83 [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 7:00 pm ]
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If you can somehow paint her face to look like Evangeline Lilly that would be a plus for the model. But I'm pretty sure it's the sculpt and not the GW paint job.
Author:  Adanedhel88 [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 9:58 pm ]
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the new elves are indeed stunning
ive got a few of m, the knights when assembled will need sum gapfilling though..my parts didnt line up as nice as id expect..but should be managable..but out of the entire bundle, not one miscast or lack of detail or anything. im very impressed
Author:  Lhosseth [ Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:54 pm ]
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Yes, I find the quality very nice too, there's a lot of detail in them and no real problems. Gaps are a thing with my cavalry as well, and mounted Legolas has quite a bit of this issue too.

At the moment, I'm happy I can paint a decent looking face! Painting a face to someone's likeness is still one step ahead of me, if I will ever manage doing so at all lol
Author:  Sacrilege83 [ Fri Dec 05, 2014 12:14 am ]
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At least make Tauriel feminine unlike that lousy paint job on GW.
Author:  Constantine [ Fri Dec 05, 2014 1:32 am ]
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I want them too :sad: .
Author:  Lhosseth [ Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:50 pm ]
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Sprue pics of the bowmen

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Spearmen

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And Tauriel and the swordsmen arrived today!

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Author:  Power_in_Terror [ Wed Dec 24, 2014 3:59 pm ]
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Just curious, but with only 3 poses per troop type, is anyone converting some of their spearmen to hold a different pose? I am going to pick up a warband of them, but I don't think I want four copies of the same guy, three times!
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