Alsharoth's Dwarfs and High Elves.

[Alsharoth]

OK lets start again in the right place.

This is my log of my Dwarfs and High Elves I hope to get finished by the end of 2011.
The dwarfs need to be finished by the end of summer and have very little time to go.

This is what I have
High Elves

2 X 20 Lothern seaguard
16 Seaguard of Sea Lord Aislinn
20 Ellyrian Reavers
40 Sword Masters
Lord on steed
2 X prince imrik on dragon
3 X Griffin Lords
1 Mage
Repeater bolt thrower
5 dragon riders converted from dark elf cold ones.
Thanris Elves starter set (the fleet of Sea Lord Aislinn) - Cleaned
Display board with a section of boat based on the ships.

Dwarfs
Rune Priest - DONE
Anvil of doom needs stripping and repainting.
BfSP Thain - DONE
25 GW warriors - 2/25 DONE
20 GW Thunderers
25 GW Long Beards
20 GW rangers
20 GW Hammerers
20 GW (old blokes wearing gromril armour)
2 GW Orgen guns - 1 DONE
GW Grudge Thrower - DONE
3 GW Cannons
2 GW 1988 Flame cannons
Do something with a disintegrated gyrocopter
AOW Thunder Lord
Grombrdil
20 Mantic Ironwatch Thunderers
20 Mantic Ironwatch Quarrelers
20 Mantic Shield Brakers - DONE
Magnatised Mantic Canon - Done
20 Mantic Ironclads
4X4 Terralinx Dwarf Hold
and what ever else I have forgotten.

Over view of 7th ed Dwarf army.

And 8th ed High elves

(High Elves are currently stalled as I have no idea how to paint the griffon)

Rune Lord

Painted in tin bitz and dry brushed Burnished gold and shining gold.
WIP Mantic thunderers

Dwarf King Alrik his name (same dry brush method)

Currently trying to work my way through 50 Thunderers.

[Ramius4]

Looking good man, glad to see some more Dwarves being painted.

I like the Lord, but I have one suggestion. It looks like you've got a little of the gold on the beards in spots. It will look much better if you clean things up just a little bit.

[slayer11392]

This looks fantasic, my suggestion for the griffion is to paint it like it was an eagle brown fot the top of the feathers, white for the head and hunder the wings then yellow for the claws and talons. thats my suggestion.

[Ramius4]

This looks fantasic, my suggestion for the griffion is to paint it like it was an eagle brown fot the top of the feathers, white for the head and hunder the wings then yellow for the claws and talons. thats my suggestion.

What griffon?

[slayer11392]

What griffon?

A: by the look's of things the High elves that he has are from the Blood island starter set that came with a prince on griffin.
B:you can sort of see the wings that belong to it, in the back of the picture
C: he stated that he has a griffin

[Ramius4]

stuff

Oh Ummm... yeah, I knew that (completely missed that)

[slayer11392]

Oh Ummm... yeah, I knew that (completely missed that)

happens to the best of us

[Ramius4]

happens to the best of us

I'm screwed then

Alsharoth, how about some closeup shots of the Dwarf Warriors in blue?

[Alsharoth]

What griffon?

for those hp believers - prince on hippogriff

As to the warriors - er not untill there washed.

[Mikrovalna]

I like it, keep it up

[Purplebeard]

Seeing lots of Dwarves makes me happy

Your project for 2 armies (guessing about 4000pts- 2000 each) is bold and ambitious. I like it. A lot of the High Elf figures look really good nowadays too.

To me, the Mantic Dwarves look more like Judge Dredd meets Visionaries (weird 80s sci-fi cartoon) meets Squats. Seriously, the Mantic Dwarves could easily be sci-fi figures with very little work. I like them, but think that the stylistic difference between them and the GW figures is too much to work. IMO I think you should choose Mantic or GW.

Looking forward to more posts.

[Alsharoth]

To me, the Mantic Dwarves look more like Judge Dredd meets Visionaries (weird 80s sci-fi cartoon) meets Squats. Seriously, the Mantic Dwarves could easily be sci-fi figures with very little work.

Thanks for your other comments but I don't know what you have been watching as Mantic bear no resemblance to aether of those !


No pics as I forgot the camera <_<
The rumour of painted models rolling better is true.
Had a 2000 pts game and instead of a total loss I suffered a marginal loss (less then 100 pts difference)
Just trying to get the rest of my thunderers painted so they can all have there bath.

[Alsharoth]

Time for an update.

My workbench

Mantic puppies that I will use and wound indicators on my lords

And a hero from the mantic units.

[Alsharoth]

Well been working on the Mantic dwarfs (82 in one go)


Played 3 2000pts games using them since I opened this log.
Results are as follows

Win. = 1
Loss = 1
Draw = 1

Could be worse as so far the mantic cannon is yet to hit anything.

[Alsharoth]

About time for an update me thinks.


Both my Rune priest and lord on shied are now finished (no picture because matt varnished they look no different.
19 Mantic shield brakers done, cannon crew done, first two archers done.

Also got a new pc mouse for the laptop

£45 programmable rat 3 computer mouse just for photography.

Left to go ......

High Elves

2 X 20 Lothern seaguard
16 Seaguard of Sea Lord Aislinn
20 Ellyrian Reavers
40 Sword Masters
Lord on steed
2 X prince imrik on dragon
3 X Griffin Lords
1 Mage
Repeater bolt thrower
5 draon riders converted from dark elf cold ones.

Dwarfs
Anvil of doom needs stripping and repainting.
25 GW warriors
20 GW Thunderers
25 GW Long Beards
20 GW rangers
20 GW Hammerers
20 GW (old blokes wearing gromril armour)
2 GW Orgen guns
3 GW Cannons
2 GW 1988 Flame cannons
Do something with a disintegrated gyrocopter
AOW Thunder Lord
Grombrdil
20 Mantic Ironwatch Thunderers
20 Mantic Ironwatch Quarrelers
Magnatised Mantic Canon
20 Mantic Ironclads
and what ever else I have forgotten.

[Alsharoth]

Thain

An objective ?

Magnatised Mantic Canon


Grudge Thrower

[Alsharoth]

Stupid image limit

Uncharted seas High Elves Fleet.

Orgun Gun


The ends are supposed to look sooted but here they are just dirty.

[Alsharoth]

Long time no update.
Got distracted by some people wanting to play my crappy always loosing Ultramarines !
for those that count its 0wins, 1 Draw, 5 loss's since january.

Anyway an update, Just 1 mini, done and its a bondage Slayer.


Looks horrible up close but It will do for me.


Stupid Avaters of war, why did they have to choose now to release there slayers !

[Dreffbuilder]

Cool minis... But. Is that even a mouse? It looks like a horrid transformers mouse of some sort! Yeah I've been thinking to buy a new mouse on my new computer as well... Gotta find something cheap and 45 pounds (in euros 60€) Is quite a lot above from my wares.

Also, nicely done metal, hope I could do super drybrush techniques but my big brush is lost.

[Alsharoth]

Cool minis... But. Is that even a mouse? It looks like a horrid transformers mouse of some sort! Yeah I've been thinking to buy a new mouse on my new computer as well... Gotta find something cheap and 45 pounds (in euros 60€) Is quite a lot above from my wares.

Also, nicely done metal, hope I could do super drybrush techniques but my big brush is lost.

It's not a mouse its a R.A.T 3! lol, its the baby models but still expensive but great for photography and art.

The dry brushing is easer they you may think and so is the metals.
Just a cheepish nylon flat brush, water with a drop of washing up liquid and kitchen paper to clean of most of the paint and that's it.
Splash on the mudd and a quick dry brush and seal.
to paraphrase the cook,

"Dwarf, done!"

I struggle with concentrating on models (why this log went dorment) so a quick simple way of doing things that look effecting is what I seek.