Lead Under The Bed

In 2015 my son was born. 2015 was also the last time I updated this blog. There has not been much painting since then, but I'm starting to feel the urge to produce something again. Until that happens here is a blitzer I never got around to post back then. Dark Elf Blitzer Dark Elf Blitzer

Witch elves are what makes dark elf teams so cool. They are expensive to hire and break easily, but the amount of damage they can do to your opponent's team more than makes up for this. Witch Elf From a modelling point of view they are really interesting too. I've always fancied Jes Goodwin's Eldar harlequins  and I wanted my witch elves to look something like that. Witch Elf For a very long time I was struggling to find a combination of parts that I was satisfied with and I decided to scratch my first attempts . In the end I decided to use a Marauder witch elf combined with the legs of a female eldar harlequin. Since the face of the Marauder witch wasn't exactly up to Jes Goodwin standards I also used the face mask of the harlequin. Witch Elf The result is a witch elf in an attacking position which suits this kind of player well, I think.

Latest addition to the team is a blitzer. I wanted him to resemble the old starplayer Tuern Redvenom  so I used his face mask, copied his thigh guards and combined them with the torso of one of the original blitzers. Dark Elf Blitzer I used this technique to create the thigh guards and it worked really well. The head and legs were donated by old wood elf wardancers . Dark Elf Blitzer I think he looks both meaner and more dynamic than the original blitzer models  which is the way I like my dark elves. Next up is a witch elf I have been working on for some time now.

Next player up for my dark elf team is an assassin. The fact that this player can run around stabbing his opponents in the back without risking getting caught by the referee is enough to include one, but overall I don't find this player very useful. Dark Elf Assassin The assassin does provide for an interesting modelling project though and I had this idea in my head that I just had to try out. I ended up using the body of an  elf wardancer called Eidyn  because of the very cool fighting claw he has strapped to his right arm. The head was taken from an eldar scout  wearing a scarf. Dark Elf Assassin I green stuffed the skull on the shoulder pad as well as the towel hanging from his waist. I chose to paint the base ring green. Green is normally reserved for blockers , but since dark elves don't have any I figured that it would work as well as any other color.

I've finally managed to finish a couple of the dark elves that I started working on last year. My plan is to do a complete "Jes Goodwin" dark elf team  and this is of course just the start. Dark Elf Runner I ended up painting the runner's mohawk in two tones to make him stand out on the board. After all he is the star of the team, sort of. The lineman has had his head replaced with one of an eldar scout . The facial mask makes him look particularly sinister, I think. Dark Elf Lineman The base rings were done using this technique .

I've always loved dark elves. I've played them in local leagues, tournaments and on fumbbl  and I've always preferred them to their lawful wood elf and high elf cousins. For some reason I've never painted a team of these evil elves though I've owned the miniatures for ages and it was only recently that I found out why. More on that later. It's not that I didn't try in the past. In the early days of Blood Bowl 3 rd edition I ran a dark elf squad named the Purple Reign. I painted a blitzer and that was it. I enjoyed playing the team, but I didn't enjoy painting the miniatures. Dark Elf Blitzer Years later I tried again. This time I wanted to recreate the 2 nd edition team the Naggaroth Nightwings . Again I failed. Naggaroth Nightwings Blitzer The years passed and I forgot all about my beloved dark elves, but then the dark elf roster was changed as it was too similar to the high elf roster. One of the changes was the introduction of runn...