First 2 trays of elves completed

Normally I have a long rant about painting...not as much this time, I expect.

The elves are at the bottom of this link: https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/D4Msl6mjXP1oLcy1U152Qha7G1yH6DgDLmTo6r2bBkJ

The first couple were my color test - the based ones I'll be fielding.

Here's the thing that I learned:

I went to an art store and bought 2 .000 brushes, about $5/ea. and that is a game changer.

The 2 sets were: the first set had silver bows, the second have white bows, the 2nd set I had the .000 brushes. For me that was a big difference, I can get fairly straight lines!

I was fixing things on 2nd set that would have been called fixed on the first.

I was going to do more autumn basing - but started to look a little christmas-y.. not what I was after, so tried for "earthy" with overgrowth.

Can't seem to get the spirit of a magic "glow" out of the bows, but I'm starting to ask a lot.

Still Lots of errors - but getting better and starting build confidence and having more fun at it.

Ok,ask me again after the leonx...

Looking good!

Nicely done, but IMO they're begging for some quickshade.

9 minutes ago, Contrapulator said:

Nicely done, but IMO they're begging for some quickshade.

That's another difference - I wish I could remember who said "if you want the cape white, Don't shade it.."

but the other areas do have quickshade, the "soft" tone, and I admit, very lightly. I wanted them to be bright and you are very correct, I wish I could get that mix right.

19 minutes ago, Adun42 said:

That's another difference - I wish I could remember who said "if you want the cape white, Don't shade it.."

but the other areas do have quickshade, the "soft" tone, and I admit, very lightly. I wanted them to be bright and you are very correct, I wish I could get that mix right.

You can still shade the white, just be careful and don't dip the whole cape.

1 hour ago, Contrapulator said:

You can still shade the white, just be careful and don't dip the whole cape.

better off pin washes the recesses, not dipping at all if you want to A preserve white and B do clear work.

You have been quite prolific, keep at it. The only way to progress is doing a crap tonne of painting. Dig the armoured elves.

Love the Elves! Plus the Lions on your shields and standards are awesome. Are they transfers??

yes, the are transfers from http://www.ginfritter.com

Quite worried about the Elven command unit with the standard. having a hard time finding a transfer that I like.

On 8/24/2017 at 4:37 PM, Darthain said:

better off pin washes the recesses, not dipping at all if you want to A preserve white and B do clear work.

I'll post pictures in a couple of days, but I ended out shading the elves with the soft shade.

I tried it and found I liked it better too - A little less cartoon look, a little more gritty.

Thank you for the suggestion!