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    Dipping woodelves

    I have made this log to keep my motivation up, and to make sure that I keep working on the army after the summer.

    This Wood elves army is highly autumn themed, and comes from one of the darker places within Athel Loren. My Army list is not totaly finished yet, but the army will most likely consist of gladeguard, dryads, wildriders, wardancers, and maybee treekin, treeman and waywatchers.

    To have a good enough reason, both fluff and money wise, to include Wild Riders i wil convert my own using gladeriders, dryads and beastmen. I also have some smal plans to build the treekin and treman from scratch, but that is not for sure.

    Here is what I have done so far:

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    Glade Riders:
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    Dryads:

    I have 12 more dryads, almost finished. And photos of wip wardancers and wildriders will come soon.

    It's not the best photos, but I don not have much exerience with photographing.

    Untill next update, good night.
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    Last edited by Angus; 12-08-2007 at 21:30.
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    argh so shiny, in my opinion, drop the green and go for bleached bone? or maybe a dark orange

    my wood elves are auumnal, but Im using natural, grittier colours for them, may get some photos up sometime, also, some advice, use reddy tea ;leaves for the basing, its looks like awesome autumn leaf mould

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    The bows of the glade guard are bleached bone. But I don't think the coulour scheme of glade guard and riders can be changed, as you can not repaint dipped models.
    They look a lot more shiney on the photoes than i real life because of the light from the camera, but the plan is to give them a matt varnish.

    Tea leaves? We only have tea bags i our house... where can i get it? I have looked for a basing material like leaves on my local hobbystore, but no.

    Thank you.
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    I think these are AWESOME!!!
    Always been curious about the dipping thing, do you have a step by step guide

    Keep up the good work.

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    they look nice

    but my no means amazing because they dont look anywhere near real life... i mean who would own a shiny shirt lol

    but they do look nice

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    Give them a dullcoat and they'll look awesome ^^
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    Quote Originally Posted by untimention View Post
    they look nice

    but my no means amazing because they dont look anywhere near real life... i mean who would own a shiny shirt lol

    but they do look nice
    I don't know... Maybe if that shirt was made out of say, leather?

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    I agree fully about being to shiney, but I will wait to varnish them untill the bases are done. And I'am not sure how to make paint them. I have been looking for somthing to represent leaves like nymraif pointed out, but have not found anythig at the hobbystores here in town.

    EDIT: @azraelezekiel. For the dipping I would go to pertinax's dipping article in the "how to..."tread.
    Last edited by Angus; 15-08-2007 at 14:24.
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    A unit of wardancers have been dipped;


    I have begun converting the wild riders, they use the glade rider's horses, and gor bodies, and the arms and heads are from dryads. Extra ideas here are more than welcome.
    I am a bit uncertian about how to make the banner. A big tree? Or the usual plastic banner from the box.

    My Painting log, Dipped Woodelves:
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    Love the colors you chose has that nice Autumn feel to them. I can see them blending in perfectly in any forest waiting to spring an ambush. I agree about the shiny effect, but I imagine like everyone else has mentioned on here some Dullcoat or some Krylon Satin spray would help out a lot. Other than that......... LOVE EM!! like the conversions too lets see some more of that topic

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    i think overall, the dipping worked very well on the elven units.

    as for the treekin (dryads), maybe you might consider drybrushing abit and generally sealing all your army models with a flat topcoat.

    your army looks great, even if you decide not to do the stuff i mentioned above.

    good job!!!

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    I actaully think the green looks really nice with the autum feel here, wouldent change it. As for the banner, a big tree could woork but id try tie it in with the rest of your army so maybe the box banner would do that a little better.

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    Angus - can you post some step-by-step guides for your models detailing what all the base colours are and whether you do any highlighting etc. before dipping. What are you using for the dip itself?
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    Sorry for the loong wait. I have been really busy with school lately. But here i come with a small update, just some wip's, but i hope that i wil be able to dip them during the week.




    @mattjgilbert
    Hmm, for the red i used red gore, snot green on the green parts, elf flesh for flesh, beached bone for the bows and arow heads, bubonic brown for the light brown(and dryads) and beastial brown for the dark brown. No highlighting! but i dip them quite heavy (leave quite a lot of the dip on the models) how much to shake of is something you have to find out for yourself. As for the dip i use liberon bristrot lack -Light valnut (the same as Pertinax uses in his article in the how to thread)...

    BASES... any suggestions here? I am a bit unsure about them, should i just leave them dipped or paint them again? my main worry if paint them is if they will fit in with the dipped theme of the models. I am considering paintig them, and them brush over them with the dipping lack, thinned with white spirits.

    I will of course add grass and red and green "stuff"(as on the dryads branches).

    EDIt: putty, I'll try the drybrushing thing when I am going to dullcoat them.
    My Painting log, Dipped Woodelves:
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    I think you're going to have to test that out about the bases. If you repaint them, it may help tie the general look of dipping into the whole unit so people who know about it won't just immediately see dipped miniatures. On the other hand, dipping produces a certain "texture" that if you take off the bases might become more pronounced on the larger figure.
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    I don't dip the bases because the varnish tends to pool around the rim and makes the surface uneven. It also takes away the texture of the sand a bit. I'd go with the standard drybrushing technique on the bases. It looks cleaner and more professional IMO.

    Great Woodelves though. It's amazing what dipping can do when used right. A dullcoat will make them look even better!
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    Those are looking pretty good. Once you dullcoate them and finish their bases they'll be pretty impressive.

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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    Thx for the response!

    Dark or light bases?hum, think I am going more toward darker bases with black edges. And with quite a lot of grass and red and green stuff-thing

    But there is going to be some time until the bases are done, as i want to paint the whole army before finishing the bases...think I that i am going to try to finish and paint one of the Wild riders soon.
    Last edited by Angus; 26-09-2007 at 20:59.
    My Painting log, Dipped Woodelves:
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    Re: Dipping woodelves

    What base colour did you use on the Dryads?
    And what shade of dip (is it FAP medium?) did you use?

    cheers,

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