~ Shieldmaiden's WIP ~ (Updated 29/10)

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 9:54 pm

PowerofWill wrote:

They look great, the armor is amazing. These are some of my favorite mini's from GW, and your doing a very good job on them. I'm looking forward to seeing them finished.

-PoW

It's half the reason I love painting/collecting 'High' Elves - their armour is just beautiful. I remember going to see it at the Royal Armouries in Leeds when Weta ran that Arms and Armour roadshow, and in person, just, wow. Though it paled in comparison to the work that went into Sauron, but that's another story

I'm debating on whether, sticking to the current rules, to just have a pure High Elf army or whether to ally in. I'm tempted to ally in Rangers and Aragorn from the Three Hunters. If I can somehow get hold of him cheaply...

Thanks Chris, PoW, Bilbo!

@ DMS - Cheeky. Just for you I took a photo

I did potatoes, cubed and fried in olive oil with garlic, a couple of onions, basil, rosemary, oregano, paprika, salt and pepper, served with cumberland sausages and a hearty helping of good old baked beans

And before anyone says anything, technically that there is a WIP pic. It was dinner in progress - the potatoes aren't quite browned and crispy

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:05 pm

Your elves look great but are completely overshadowed by the dinner - :wink:

fantastic colouration and attention to detail has gone into this with a wonderful array of herbs and spices lol. I want some :rofl:

GothmogtheWerewolf · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:25 pm

Coming along nicely... :-D

The elves I mean, not the dinner.

Whatevier · **Posted:** Fri Aug 03, 2012 11:55 pm

You should stick to cooking!

Nah just kidding, the elves are looking amazing, can't wait to see them completed!

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:38 am

Everybody should be able to cook! It's a fun skill to master.

Anyways I'm about to go and have fun with Dettol. I have a tonne of plastic Elves to strip.

EDIT:

Got these guys nearly done now. I'm not as happy with the Elven cloaks this time around, and I'm not even sure why. They look better off camera for sure, as in the lighting I took this picture, my last batch show up similar. But hey, what can you do. Just need to base them now!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:22 pm

I think your taters are coming on nicely...cannot wait to see the final results.

Seriously, I think your elves are turning out excellent!!!

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 04, 2012 12:53 pm

BilboOfTheWhiteTower wrote:

I think your taters are coming on nicely...cannot wait to see the final results.

Seriously, I think your elves are turning out excellent!!!

Samwise said nothing about frying them... :lol:

Sacrilege83 · **Posted:** Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:59 pm

Your elves are looking very nice.

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:00 am

Cool

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 2:10 pm

Okay, update time!

Had a busy week so not had much chance to paint, so excuse the lack of miniatures finished.

First off, here's my banner bearer. He needs his Elven Cloak painting, and obviously the banner, but I'm saving that for another day.

And in other news my Captain is finished! I decided to give him a different coloured cloak to differentiate him from the other Elves, and in keeping with the fact Elrond & Gil-galad have blue ones, I thought he should have one too.

I think today I learned that I got better at basing :mrgreen:

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 2:53 pm

Really cool and I am liking the dirty cloth!!

Dead Marsh Spectre · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:00 pm

NIce work again...I'm in love with that armour!!!!

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:09 pm

BilboOfTheWhiteTower wrote:

Really cool and I am liking the dirty cloth!!

Thanks! I wanted to try and make him look even more battle worn by painting some dripping orc blood on his blade, but I wasn't confident I would be able to make it look good.

Dead Marsh Spectre wrote:

NIce work again...I'm in love with that armour!!!!

Again, praise from DMS is always a good thing. Can't wait to have this whole company painted up!

BilboOfTheWhiteTower · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:36 pm

Shieldmaiden wrote:

I wanted to try and make him look even more battle worn by painting some dripping orc blood on his blade, but I wasn't confident I would be able to make it look good.

I never really like adding blood to my models, I think it can detract from the paint job and draw attention away from the detail of the model. I think these guys being just a wee bit dirty tells the story very well!

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 3:38 pm

Fantastic work Shieldmaiden - far superior to GW's! :yay:

I especially love the blue colour you've got on the Captain's cloak! :yay:

Will you be painting freehand on the banner? I think you'd make it look excellent

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 6:17 pm

Bahaha Chris, you shower me with praise. I'd be lying if I said your blue cloaks hadn't partly inspired that decision.

I'm gonna paint the banner freehand, yes - I'm just researching Elven Heraldry at the moment so I can sketch something up. I'm so scared to try it!

Oldman Willow · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:29 pm

Looks good

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:44 pm

Shieldmaiden wrote:

Bahaha Chris, you shower me with praise. I'd be lying if I said your blue cloaks hadn't partly inspired that decision.

I'm gonna paint the banner freehand, yes - I'm just researching Elven Heraldry at the moment so I can sketch something up. I'm so scared to try it!

this might help a bit, not sure though: http://www.forodrim.org/gobennas/heraldry/heraldry.htm ?

Shieldmaiden · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 7:56 pm

Chris GoM wrote:

Shieldmaiden wrote:

Bahaha Chris, you shower me with praise. I'd be lying if I said your blue cloaks hadn't partly inspired that decision.

I'm gonna paint the banner freehand, yes - I'm just researching Elven Heraldry at the moment so I can sketch something up. I'm so scared to try it!

this might help a bit, not sure though: http://www.forodrim.org/gobennas/heraldry/heraldry.htm ?

Already beat you to it. Looked at it earlier.

I think I'm gonna design a heraldry for Arwen. As much as it'd be stretching lore a little (she'd bear the same one as Elrond, who actually just uses Gil-Galad's) I think it'd be fun to have a go at.

Chris GoM · **Posted:** Sat Aug 11, 2012 8:23 pm

Shieldmaiden wrote:

I think I'm gonna design a heraldry for Arwen. As much as it'd be stretching lore a little (she'd bear the same one as Elrond, who actually just uses Gil-Galad's) I think it'd be fun to have a go at.

I look forwards to it :yay:

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