Shield Designs

Ok, been working some more on my shield designs, for my shields I wanted something that would be based off the history of Nagarythe and in particular Aenarion the kingdoms founder. The design I've come up with features Aenarion represented by his Dragon Indraugnir rising from the Flames of the shrine of Asuryan, or at least the nearest approximation of that, that I can come up with.

To build the shields I took the serpent icon from the Dark Elf shield sprue (to represent Indraugnir) and attached it to a High Elf shield, then modelled flames coming up from the bottom of the shield in green stuff (for the flames of Asuryan) as shown here:

The four test shields I created

Undercoated

The next problem was what colour scheme to paint them in, the two options that seem best are shown below, but I'm undecided which one to use, opinions on this, as always, are welcome.

The Two Designs

Purple Shield on Model

Black Shield on Model

Two in Ranks

Update:

Hers an additional white design that I did at the recommendation of my mate Scott. Ignore the quality of the white if you can, obviously I'd do the actual shields from a white undercoat not black which would allow me to paint much thinner....

White Shield

White Shield on Model

The Not-So-High High Elves

Right, on to my new project, this going to be a Pre-Sundering Nagarythe High Elf Army based on the events of the time of legends books Malekith and Shadow King. The army will be based on the force that Malekith leads from the "Old World" colonies after he makes contact with the Dwarves. The army will be most themed around large blocks of infantry, which will use the Seaguard rules to represent the Nagarythe tactic of coordinating archers with spearmen, with supporting Anlec Knights, represented by Dragon Knights, and best of all Malekith on a big white Dragon.

Possible ideas that I might attempt at a later date might be to expand the force to represent the army that Malekith leads retake Anlec from Morathi Cultists or an alternative set of character models to allow the army to represent the army of the Anars from Shadow King.

But that is all speculation, below is the two sample models I've created to test out ideas, they are created from a mix of Dark Elf Infantry legs, torso and head, and High Elf Spearman arms and shields. I've trimmed the shoulder pads down on the Dark Elf torso to avoid looking too "Dark Elfy". The decision to use dark elf heads over high elf ones was a tricky one, as they're a bit to "Spiky" for me, but I wanted something to make the model stand out from a High Elf and decided helms where the best based on this picture in which you can just about see the helms of the troops behind him. In terms of painting I've gone for quite a dark theme overall but used a slightly lighter purple than is traditional for Dark elves, again to avoid that "Dark Elfy" look. Couldn't decide on a shield device so I've left it blank, as soon I work out what log they should have I'll update them.

Spearman One

Spearman One

Spearman Two

Spearman Two

Lined Up In Rank

Lined Up In Rank

First! & Dark Angels

After many years of doing various GW projects I've decided to keep a Blog to keep track of all the images of new stuff I upload to the web, as my current stuff is rather scattered.