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Title: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on April 05, 2020, 12:45:10 AM

I am hoping eventually to get into some %e D&D (last played in the days of 2nd Edition in the mid-late 80s).

I am more interested in my old age to role play instead of having a maxed out character.
My idea is for a high elf fighter who has a noble background but has also some sort of weird/traumatic history so that he is a very forceful but unsettling person to be around. 
I still see elves with a Tolkien lens and would prefer a figure in mail but to look almost more like a rogue than a fighter.  I need him well dressed - not flashy but not ragged - but to be dark and almost sinister looking.  Main weapon is a sword.
Alternative may be to have him in a breast plate.
This is one possibility, but would need to be painted very differently:
https://www.darkswordminiatures.com/shop/index.php/male-high-elf-warrior.html

Perhaps a not-so-over-the-top Dark elf?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on April 05, 2020, 01:04:35 AM

Just to add.
He would be mainly a sword and shield fighter, but possibly sword and bow.

Too gamey to have a sword, shield and bow?

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: WuZhuiQiu on April 05, 2020, 01:05:10 AM

There used to be GW's Mordheim High Elf...

http://www.coolminiornot.com/4219

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Elbows on April 05, 2020, 01:05:43 AM

A noble, forceful and unsettling Elf?  So...an Elf?  lol

11 pages of keyword "Elf", as Reaper has finally (after many many years...) built a decent enough search engine into their page:

https://www.reapermini.com/search/elf

I like this style, but can't really tell how good or bad the sculpt is:

(https://images.reapermini.com/4/03597_w_1.jpg)
Dalyn Talas, Elven Sword Mage

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Koyote on April 05, 2020, 01:12:09 AM

Hasslefree Miniatures

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1755/uvTVeb.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img921/4596/g7KFDi.jpg)

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Sinewgrab on April 05, 2020, 03:37:19 AM

GW LOTR models?

(https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/920x950/99061463047_MEHaldirCeleborn01.jpg)

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Sir_Theo on April 05, 2020, 08:45:09 AM

Heartbreaker Elf Noble now sold by RPE

http://www.ralparthaeurope.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=popup_image&pID=3095

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Dentatus on April 05, 2020, 04:38:19 PM

Color scheme makes all the difference but this guy?
https://www.reapermini.com/search/figurefinder+metal+elf+sword/latest/03957

Left hand options are parrying dagger or shield.

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Orctrader on April 05, 2020, 08:09:41 PM

Another Hasslfree option.  Daphos  Described on the site as Twisted dark elf 'anti-hero'

(http://www.orctrader.co.uk/Images/HF/Daphos2.jpg)

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Nordic1980s on April 05, 2020, 10:56:17 PM

Ex-Grenadier...? (https://www.battlezone-miniatures.co.uk/shop/category/221) Armorcast makes nice set, too. (https://armorcast.com/ll03206-elven-lord-champion/) Old Fantasy Warlord range from 1990 could fit the bill. (https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/fantasy-warlord-range/products/21000-elven-hero) (Some conversion potential also here (https://www.alternative-armies.com/collections/fantasy-warlord-range/products/11000-high-elves-5-different-miniatures).)

Below is a photoshop example of a simple conversion what one could make out by just using the AA parts. The shield is a fancy 1950s fairy tales style one, they also make more traditional shields. One could easily change the helmet into a hood with some filing and putty.

Title: Re: Need help finding elf miniature for RPG
Post by: Ethelred the Almost Ready on April 06, 2020, 05:30:22 AM

Thanks for all the ideas.  There are some great miniatures there.
I will need to ponder some more......