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Title: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Captain Blood on March 26, 2011, 04:55:42 PM
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Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Blackwolf on March 27, 2011, 09:34:38 AM
Both good entries,Lord Dunsany is a favourite of mine and the paint job is spot on,but then Ariadna is cool too....
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: oxiana on March 27, 2011, 11:22:28 AM
Tough match up: both are based with identical purple Silflor flowers!  lol

Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Dr. Kevin Moon III esq. on March 27, 2011, 11:48:22 AM
both top entries, the colours on the elves in particular are a fantastic choice.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: dampfpanzerwagon on March 27, 2011, 12:09:12 PM
Both are very good but I agree with earlier comments and think the Elves are just fantastic, very well done.

Tony
http://dampfpanzerwagon.blogspot.com/
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Heldrak on March 27, 2011, 01:36:46 PM
Tough match up: both are based with identical purple Silflor flowers!  lol



yes, I noticed that as well- Similar color palettes too!  lol
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: D@rth J@ymZ on March 27, 2011, 02:29:06 PM
Who makes the Ariadna models? There's a couple really interesting models in there.

Excellent work on the elves.  I'm somewhat surprised they are not of the 'dark' variety Heldrak  ;)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Ray Rivers on March 27, 2011, 03:22:59 PM
Who makes the Ariadna models?

Looks like Infinity to me.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Heldrak on March 27, 2011, 03:35:13 PM
Excellent work on the elves.  I'm somewhat surprised they are not of the 'dark' variety Heldrak  ;)

Good call.  ;) 

My original intention was to do them in a more traditional Dark Elfy black and red color scheme, but then I was afraid that they would just look like Vampires, so I went in a different direction.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Fire Broadside! on March 27, 2011, 05:42:08 PM
Very tough choice! I think I might have to go with Ariadna since they're my second favourite faction in Infinity. :)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Raz on March 27, 2011, 08:13:50 PM
Who makes the Ariadna models? There's a couple really interesting models in there.

They are indeed from the Infinity range of Corvus Belli. I was thinking the same thing when I saw them at first. Especially Ariadna models (and Haqqislam as well) are really useable for any near future setting 8)

Heldrak, your elves look really good! The combination of colours is great.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Captain Blood on March 27, 2011, 08:51:44 PM
Right. That's it. I'm going to have to pick up some Silflor flowers at Salute. Everybody's doing it!
Who would have thought wargames figures would end up looking so pansy with de rigeur floral arrangements...  ;)

(Actually, they look blinking good...  :))
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Heldrak on March 27, 2011, 10:33:30 PM
Right. That's it. I'm going to have to pick up some Silflor flowers at Salute. Everybody's doing it!
Who would have thought wargames figures would end up looking so pansy with de rigeur floral arrangements...  ;)

(Actually, they look blinking good...  :))

Mine are actually Green Line GL-042 Blumen Violett from a German company called Fredericus-Rex, not Siliflor, but same difference...  ;)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Heldrak on March 27, 2011, 10:39:14 PM
Heldrak, your elves look really good! The combination of colours is great.

Thank you, Raz. I like your entry too.   ;)

I actually took my inspiration from this illustration by Brian Froud:

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u219/Heldrak/Forum%20Saves/Froud_lg.jpg)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Pil on March 28, 2011, 01:54:30 PM
Right. That's it. I'm going to have to pick up some Silflor flowers at Salute. Everybody's doing it!
Who would have thought wargames figures would end up looking so pansy with de rigeur floral arrangements...  ;)

(Actually, they look blinking good...  :))

I believe Raz' flowers are from Mininatur, sold by Battlefield Berlin, perhaps a bit closer to home than Salute 8)

Both entries are really good and the painting is great on both. Eventually I decided to choose the Ariadna because I really fancy the scenery setting and the choice of models 8)
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: tsar1701 on March 28, 2011, 03:39:42 PM
I do really love the colour of the skin of the elves  :-*

great painting !
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Heldrak on March 28, 2011, 06:17:25 PM
Thanks, Tsar.  :)

The skin was very finnicky to do (it probably took more time than the rest of the work on the figures combined) but I was pleased with the end result.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Hawkeye on March 28, 2011, 11:28:12 PM
Those elves! Look at the colours! Two fantastic entries, but I had to go with the smooth shading and highlighting on the elves - but how close are some of these match-ups? Fantastic entries, both of these.
Title: Re: ROUND 3 Ariadna on patrol vs The King of Elfland's Daughter
Post by: Nev S on March 29, 2011, 09:22:44 AM
The hat of Van Zant tipped the vote for me :]