Lord Azoth´s Dark elves Painting Log

[Lord Azoth]

Hi all, I´m going to post my DE army log. I´m posting it in druchii.net but think if I post it here also:

1) it can help not only druchii generals
2) I´ll receive more feedback to improve my job, so this is a more general community than a druchii one, so comments and critics I think will be more varied

the first steps will look done very fast, the reasonis I´ve been working on it about a month... next ones will appear more slowly

Hope you like it, and doubts, critics and comments are all welcome, evidently...


First unit I started working...

20 warriors unit..so I´m very lazy, I made a "filler" for this unit.
It´s equivalent to 6 warriors 4x6 cm ...

They are warriors from Gamezone, an Spanish company. I dont´t like them a lot, but GW´s ones look worse to me...

the photos show the base colour, they´ll be dipped in (don´t know how to say it really in English, I used a mix os matt varnish + asphalt -> this was the translation I found for betun de judea)...

The filler:



the filler comes from West wind miniatures, from a blsiter of its "bad" elves

The unit itself:

[Lord Azoth]

next step... I applied the mix I told before, matt varnish+asphalt ..photos look brighter than the real color..maybe a little darker than I wanted... I´ll see when start to apply highlights...

[Lord Azoth]

I´ve left the warriors for a while ...

I´ve decided to make a mounted sorcerer, but for all steeds mounted one..dark steed, pegasus, dragon etc..

For this, I´ll drill her out instead gluing her so I can change the mount freely

These minis are also from spanish company, GameZone...

This is the horse/pegasus, I elongated a bit the legs and drill a good pin (steel bar) to hold the horse in differente bases (25x50mm for horse, 40x40mm for pegasus)



rear view, you can se the holes to introduce the sorcerer pinning



last view for the horse, I elongated the neck also..gamezone minis (specially horses, look totally cool to me..but setting them is hard..very hard..



pinned sorcerer

[Lord Azoth]

Sorcerer and mount, joined through the holed pin...






I know the wings can be a problem playing, but if the problem appears, I´ll use only the base temporarily...

1) horse base, 25x50mm, must retouch it




mounted in the "running" base:

[Lord Azoth]

2) monster/pegasus base, 40x40mm..



mounted in the "flying" base:

[Lord Azoth]

I cant bear her strange and bald head!! ... so modelled a little hair base...I´ll make details with GS





horse/pegasus with holes filled

[Malakai]

I really love that sorceress. The base is awesome. I can't wait to see her painted up.

-Malakai

[Lord Azoth]

sorcerer and mount finished:


with GS have detailed the long hair, I´ll try to do small pointy ears... If can´t this will be the final step of her.




The mount has all stuff sanded down and fitted.. I´ve made some addings to the mane with GS to compensate the lengthen of the neck

[Lord Azoth]

chariot...

I mixed the GW chariot and the CO of Gamezone (hate the old fat scaly cows from GW) the main problem was fixing both in a natural way to avoid a forced conversion









the green spots in the CO are a mix of GS and glue to fill gaps and make the CO solid (didn´t want to pin everything) ... Ill have to sand them down and do a little cutting...

the riders will be the GW ones.
My idea is that the chariot will be composed of 3 parts:

base+CO
chariot
riders

joined with pins, easier to transport, also if I make a heroe on foot, Ill pin him and will be able to use him on foot or on chariot...

[Lord Azoth]

I´ll make a little explanation about how I make bases, the example will be the chariot one

First, over the pastic base I apply a thin layer of a cheap stuff, after drying it will be sanded, carved to make the flagstones as the rest of units



1) I draw a grid in the base I showed in the last post, and with a small saw for cutting metal cut the main lines


2) I use the showed tool to make craves and marks


3) I cut some flagstones, make some carves and holes etc. with the tools showed. I stop When I´m satisfied with the overall look


after this I glue some sand to cover holes and make the ruinous look

[Dark_Mage99]

Very inspiring work here. The Sorceress on Peggy looks incredible - really awe-inspiring stuff.

Loving the warriors and filler as well... keep the pics coming.

[Lord Azoth]

Painting stage has started... now I´ll be doing more slowly, I´m too slow painting..very slow

the colour scheme is very basic:
red : Foundation one
gold: shining gold + a bit of turquoise + a bit of burnt brown

turquoise (vallejo one) for details (this will be the color for CO)

other metallics, boltgun, chainmail + a bit of purple

the photos are not exactly showing the colours (they have been autoadjusted by the photoshop in colour), and the turquoise looks more like blue, is greener)

One step of the chariot before being finished:



The chariot finished, totally basecoated ready to apply the mix of varnish and asphalt as the warriors:




It´s only basecoated...after basecoating all the chariot I´ll apply the asphalt mix to iy (as done with warriors)

[Meraklis]

Great work so far! I really like how you explain every step you take! Its a pleasure to follow through your work!

Keep it up!

Are you going to include any of the new DE miniatures from GW?

[Lord Azoth]

Meraklis: really dont know, because this army is like a test one, want to try some things and with the new GW minis would like to apply all I had learned with the army 1.0 (really like new corsairs, and CO knights)...

But really dont know, when finish paint the sorcerer I´ll think which one will be next unit...

Thanks for all comments

[Fenix Felder]

That chariot is going to look awesome when finished great work mate!

But I can't get past the impression that the colors you used on the chassis look IMO too TK like

[Lord Azoth]

But I can't get past the impression that the colors you used on the chassis look IMO too TK like

It reminds me more khorne one ..but teh problem was that I imagine the chariot in red & black and none of them conviced me, so I chose red and gold (gold beacuse is a special unit) that looks better to me than black and gold...

thanks for comments

[Lord Azoth]

another step, painting is harder to me than modelling conversion, so my speed has lowered...

chariot raiders basecoated..hope you like it..now going for CO and base...






Now I´m painting the CO, but think it will take me a little longer I suppused, the size is huge..and Im a slowpainter

The skin look strange, and reallly dont know what to do with it..so I´ll improvise

[azironlegion]

I love the use of the gamezone cold ones. I still like them better than the new GW ones (even tho they did get better) The Gamezone dark elf minis and the new GW ones are really tempting me to start dark elves. Keep up the good work.

[Lord Azoth]

Finally chariot finished!!!
Fist some photos about the process...

bone things (or things I´ve suppoused were bone)-> bleached bone (GW) + engish uniform (vallejo)

scales: vallejo turquoise, the rest have been used previously..





CO + base ended:

[Lord Azoth]

The chariot totally assembled, tonight it will be washed with the asphalt mix...