MY Dark Elf Head Coach (and the rest of the team)

carnelian · Post by **carnelian** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:30 pm

Indeed!

Colour scheme is pretty nice! Also the coach does stand out from among the players. Any chance of seeing the complete team?

Cheers!

Urb · Post by **Urb** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:53 pm

thank you... I do try. You're DE team is right there with any of my stuff here... nice work really. Inspires me to paint my DE ahead of time.

Blending is simple really. It's just more time you have to paint. So lets say on your blue..

- base with your medium blue colour
- darken the reccesses with a darker blue
- using a light blue highlight the medium blue

here's the blending trick

In between every one of those steps glaze where the 2 colours meet to smooth out the transition. By glazing I mean a thin wash of the medium colour.

You could wet blend but that's a bit harder to master and alot of work for a table topper.

Anyways.. the point is glazing is the key to smooth transitions.

hope that helps.

MattRobson · Post by **MattRobson** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:03 pm

yeah that helps alot. i've always painted a dark base then a medium then my highlight. this usualy gives my minis quite a dark look. think i'll try your approach on the bunnies i was just about to start

how watered do you make your glaze??

full d. elf team pics up tommorow!!

Urb · Post by **Urb** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:15 pm

Excellent... I love seeing pictures of other peoples work.

The glaze should be around 3 to 4 parts water to paint. When you glaze you should barely have any mix left on the brush. You have to experiement a bit to where it works for how you paint but after seeing what you have done so far I know you'll have it mastered in a short time.

MattRobson · Post by **MattRobson** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:32 pm

ok here is the rest of the team...

my 3 blitzers (4th one is somewhere near the bottom of my painting mountain)

my lovely witches front and back (for the men)

some of the lino's

and the rest of the lino's ...... and a thrower.

fen · Post by **fen** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:44 pm

I love them, I'm a huge fan of Blue + Yellow strips and those Witch Elves are fantastic. A massive improvement over the original minis.

MattRobson · Post by **MattRobson** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:50 pm

thanks fen

have to say the witches were a dream to paint. i only painted this team to get me back into the swing of painting again, never realy expected to finish them as they suffer from 'morlyitis' (gary morly sculpted them so there feet are F****** huge!!) but loved painting the team and ended up taking them to the bbo5!

horekim · Post by **horekim** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 6:45 pm

I really love that coach! He's full of character. Great job

Urb · Post by **Urb** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:08 pm

It's very obvious that alot of time and effort went into these figures and the result is stunning team.

Thank you for sharing.

Chairface · Post by **Chairface** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:01 pm

An awesome looking team! I love the witch elves!

MattRobson · Post by **MattRobson** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 9:29 pm

thanks all for the comments, the team was a dream to paint. my fave fig is the witch inviting you over with the knuckle dusters behind her back! (nice girl

) i think her face just came out perfect (infact i havent been able to replicate it

) thanks again and i'll prob get round to putting my other teams up here for you all to see soon