The fallen princes of caledor

[steevn]

hi

at the LGS they've started a 1000pts paintingtale
i have a lot of unpainted dark elves ...

so i've joined the tale

fluff : high noble got corrupted by Morathi and joined her cause, now he's riding a dragon with his followers into battle

army will consist of : black dragon, sorceresses, cold ones, spearmen, xbowmen,hydra, blackguard,...

testmodel 1


testmodel 2



i think i'll go for scheme nr2 because the other one gives e to much of a 40k feeling (and i allready have a lot of those models painted up, have a look here : http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=264197 )

feel free to advise me, comment, ...

[mdiscala]

nr2 does look better but that could just be the lighting. I like to recommend including base designs in color schemes as the base color contributes a lot to the overall feel. Good painting regardless.

[steevn]

went for second paint scheme, here's the progress from the last 8 weeks

dreadlord on coldone


cok


2 repeater bolt throwers

16 xbowmen

[steevn]

continued...
12 spearelves

15 blackguard + banner van hag graef

[martijn]

nice painting man, i like the black guerds cloak.
the only thing might be that i don't really see their background in the models... which isnt really that big a problem since they look great ^^

[Tiu]

Im with martijn here, they look pretty much like any other DE army. Though they ARE very good, painting-wise.

[steevn]

assassin

[mdiscala]

Freehand on edge of the cape looks good.

[steevn]

thnx, just found out that the blackguard have a 20 maximum for armybuilding..., so i have 5 spare phoenixguard now

[steevn]

painting spearmen up to 29
painting xbowmen up to 2 x 12
building 30 corsairs, hydra, black dragon

pictures as soon as something is finished

[Robotlord]

I thought 8th edition removed all maximum unit sizes.

[steevn]

I thought 8th edition removed all maximum unit sizes.

hmm i think not, but i'd like to be proven wrong !

[steevn]

started with some paint on the shades, dreadlord ,hydra and dragon, pictures soon

[mallymoocow]

Nice log will keep watching
good choice of assassin, easily the best of the bunch in my opinion have exact same one in my force

[steevn]

wip

[steevn]

hi

redid the basing on the knights


finished the corsairs

[steevn]

work in progress (no pictures)
the basing on finished models allready shown in this thread
new paintjob on dreadlord cloak
highlighting on the black dragon
highlighting on 1st sorceress
painting the 1st hydra
more spearmen for 40strong unit as a defensive block/mindrazor target and a new 20 strong unit for mage bunker (glued, ready to be basecoated)
2nd hydra allready out of the box thinking on alternate posing (saw a nice one in one the threads here)
more xbowmen (2x10 and 1x12)
2nd and third sorceress basecoat
last details on 5 shades
cauldron +bsb painting on chariot base

...

I gave up on the phoenixguard conversions because they don't match the guardmodels

hmm plenty of work to be done... my new vampire counts army will have to wait a bit longer...

[steevn]

Small update on this project.
Bought a carnosaur , chimera and fimir for storm of magic. Finished some more spear and xbowelves.
Working on shades, have now 20 of them. Hydra almost done. 5 more cok are also partially painted.

[Toshiro]

Gorgeous cold ones!

[steevn]

Thanks! Anybody has an idea for a decoration on the capes of shades?