Chaos Pact - Dark elf

Finished. Two players awat from being all done...

I heart dark elves, but I have not painted many of them in my time. This mostly because I was not a fan of the 2nd ed dark elves with their short legs. They looked cool by themselves, kinda, but stupid next to other elves.

Most modern dark elves have become too streamlined, bondage-y or silly for my taste.

However, dark elves are essentially still elves, and it is really just a religious schism, so I used another elf. I did choose to do dark elf skin, just to hammer the point home, even if warhammer dark elves are not subterraneans or nocturnal, and really just should have regular skin. Wrestled with the issue.

So here he is. Aloof, cruel, slimmer and taller than his marauder team mates.

Chaos pact wip - troll and elf

Alright, so I did make this troll a while back and merely fixed him up some for action this time around. He is... made up of parts from a host of companies and is both metal and plastic, but obviously quite a runner.

I am not actually sure that I will be using him, as I have another idea that I may pursue instead, but here he is...

...with his 'friend' the dark elf who is in an awkward stage of painting. This one is barely converted, I mainly just hacked off some details that did not work for me. You can see hints of the colour scheme to be here already.

Pact for pizza

As a favour to my league opponent and generous host of our boardgame antics, I took on the project of supplementing his team of converted humans with a dark elf, a goblin, a skaven, a troll and a minotaur. In return for some free deep pan pizza.

There were two challenges.

1. Keeping cost down. This was a "just whatever you can find"-job, but with a clear focus on getting in some cheap players. That meant conversion, as I obviously have loads of time for that...

2. Matching the paint job. I had one of the other players to work from as a dummy, and I had to try and match his base as well, obviously. This meant that the paint job is not representative of my current level of skill as such, as it involved some cheap and easy techniques that I would otherwise not be using.

That said, these minis should match up nicely with the ones he has, providing him with another team to play, and a unique one at that.