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Evening readers, its update time again.

After getting my dark elves out the other day and the level of interest I have maintained in the cult of the possessed I have come to the conclusion that it must be 40k that is the root of my mojo problems and general lack of interest in painting. 

Its about time I had a break from 40k, focused on it for about 5 years (maybe more) admittedly I have worked on  Flames of War on and off during that period too. I intend to fix this and what better way than to update my Dark elves.

I'm not going the whole hog and completely repainting them, as I like the scheme as it is. However I do intend to give them a new paler skin tone, touch up some areas/add some extra highlights and also add some snow to their bases.

So to kick it off I have made the rather tough decision to remove the old GS work a replace it all, putting my improved sculpting skills and tools to use, here is where she at now:

New version

The Old version as it looked, this morning

Pretty pleased with her, shows how much my sculpting skills have improved since the original version with its badly push molded head and rough armour. I looked at the new plastic sorceress for ideas hence why she now has an exposed stomach :)

Also welcome to new followers Ed and quidamcorvus thanks for the support guys :)


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Blast from the Past: My Dark Elves part 1

Afternoon readers, though it would be nice to do one of these look back type of posts ever since I saw Rictus do his over on Recalcitrant Daze.

So give the new batch of stuff about to be released for them I thought I would dig out my old Dark Elf army and take some pictures and talk about them.

First got my Dark elves many many years back, when they were first rereleased, so the same time the current black guard, witch elves, executioner models were first released :P think I was in like year 8 or 9 at high school then haha.

Dark Elves are my favourite fantasy race bar none, love their imagery and back ground and I believe they are one of the finest ranges GW have done. The executioners, black guard and witch elves all still look great even now :)

Dark Elves are also special to me because it is via them that I first got into sculpting, learning how to work with GS via character converting. I completely revamped the army with new colour scheme in around 2005-2006 this is of course when I first started dabbling in GS and around the same time I returned to the hobby.

So enough babbling from me here are the pictures:

Converted Sorceresses

Sorceress base

Sorceresses, what Dark elf armour would be complete without them, these 1 are both based off of the fantastic Wood elf spellsingers who lets be honest are far superior to the current Dark elf sorceress models. Thes pair were inspired by an old log of Georcs, he of course made a far better job than I did :P

Converted characters

Converting dark elf characters is something I still enjoy doing to this day, even if I haven't made one in a fair while. the executioner themed one started life as a High elf Prince, with a load of GS work(which looks crude now by my current standard.

The Corsair themed character is based on an old beast master, with the sword of an assassin and cloak from darkblade brought back in the days of the bits service. The GS work on her is showing its age :(

Executioners, still some of my fave GW models

Shades, also great sculpts

Corsairs, still prefer these to the current plastics

spearmen

More spearmen

1 of 3 regiments of repater crossbowmen

Reaper bolt throwers

As you can see these models are showing their age a bit, my GS skill have vastly improved since then as has my painting. I am considering updating these again, though largely neatening up some stuff, adding snow to their bases and giving them a different skin tone.

The 2 sorceresses might have the old GS work ripped off and be redone, same with the other characters. Hell they might get some new toys in the form of the new sorceress that is coming out with the storm of magic stuff, possibly even the black dragon too :P.

I still have some more Dark elves to show but I will do that in another post. Thanks for looking guys and normal service shall resume in a day or 2 :)