Oathmark elves revealed! Plastics pics p. 6!

[Paboook]

Never liked the elves that much so don’t feel excited about this one neither. Ther goblin looks great though!

[Sir_Theo]

The way my mind works I'm now contemplating what id need to put together a few War of the ring type warbands with these figures maybe with the old Harlequin range for characters.

Fly you fools.

[guitarheroandy]

This Elf reminds me of the black and white drawings  in the Tolkien Bestiary I bought in the late 1980s. They had decorated oval breastplates on mail with Saxon/Norman style helms as I recall. I'd prefer a slightly more 'Elvish' helmet myself, but the painted model looks good. I'll be interested to see what the final models look like. I agree that the Orc/Goblin is particularly good!

[Harry von Fleischmann]

Recent copies of miniature wargames had a series of articles by a bloke who'd used Normans to make silmarilion era elf armies. They looked pretty decent.
A different look.

[Hobgoblin]

One thing I like a lot about these is that they don't seem to be influenced at all by the Peter Jackson films. I didn't particularly like the films (curate's eggs in my opinion), but that's by the by: what I find dreary are "not-LotR" miniatures that take their cue from the films rather than the books - elves with curved swords and tight braids; "Men of the West" in plate armour; orcs that are as tall as Men; and - especially - trolls with oddly spaced eyes and little nose to speak of.

The orc here nods to Pauline Baynes more than Peter Jackson. And that's a very good thing.

[Hubminator]

Have to admit I equally like the PJ LOTR aesthetic as much as the more traditional artistic interpretations. Love these goblins, looks like they will mix nicely with the Wargames factory plastic orcs and also the Tom Meier goblins, ( those: reckon they are amongst the best out there). Hopefully these goblins or a future release will allow for building the shorter, more stringy tracker type goblins as per the Alan Lee picture, as I reckon none that I have seen get this look quite right as yet.

Elves, chain OK, breastplate average, helm...would prefer more of a enclosed helm with cheek guards, never really liked helmets that go to brow only. Something like the PJ High Elves without the upside down ice skate as a crest would be preferable I think. Hopefully the sprues have more helmet variations...

Dwarves are cool, hope there are enough non hood heads in the sprues to kit out all the dwarves in helms. I like hoods on dwarves in general, and I guess they are probably inline with how Tolkien described them but overall they look too much like garden gnome hoods for me, something a bit deeper/more voluminous,  attached to a mantle or cape would be better I reckon. Wish there was a bit more to the hammer as well, not GW overwrought/oversized, but not a 1 kg lump hammer from Bunnings either.

Metal dwarf heroes have nailed it in my opinion. Love 'em and looking forward to seeing how well they match the old Grenadier dwarves size-wise.

All in all, yay! Looking forward to using some of these in LOTR SBG games and trying out Oathmark itself. Good Job!

[Harry von Fleischmann]

I do prefer this elf to the LOTR films look; which is strange as I did like the film look. That could of course be down to the opening spectacle of the first film - I was less impressed by the appearance of the elves at helms deep, in more ways than one.

i still have some minifig high elves somewhere; even traced the banner of Fingolfin from the silmarilion, coloured it with felttip pens and fixed it to a wire pole, which I glued into the hand of an elf with a broken sword......but first I covered it in clear sticky back plastic. It looked ok till then.....

[DivisMal]

Well, I love the goblin as everyone here, but I have to admit, I'm also taken by the elf. He has a nice and oldfashioned kitschy appearance that reminds me of old 80s fantasy books.
My favourite elves are still the oldhammer wood elves, but also the Grenadier High and Wood Elves by Mr Copplestone and these do remind me of said High Elves.

They might fit very well into such a tolkienesque world and stylewise seem to work quite well with the dwarf and goblins shown so far.

[Ethelred the Almost Ready]

For the elves I was hoping for something like this:
http://www.ralpartha.com/index.php/upcoming-releases/30-new-tom-meier-sea-elf

or this:
http://www.ralpartha.com/index.php/upcoming-releases/28-new-tom-meier-elf-wip

[beefcake]

Those Ral Partha elves are nice. Very nice style to them, slight but still very military looking.

[Oriol Barcelona]

I really like them! 

[Coenus Scaldingus]

For the elves I was hoping for something like this:
http://www.ralpartha.com/index.php/upcoming-releases/30-new-tom-meier-sea-elf

or this:
http://www.ralpartha.com/index.php/upcoming-releases/28-new-tom-meier-elf-wip

Well, that's quite a high bar... that second figure is the single most fantastic Elf sculpt I'm aware of.

[Magos Kasen]

I actually quite like the previewed elf.

I can understand some of the criticisms, but I'm happy to keep in mind the reality that this is a concept mini from what will be a plastic box - and therefore there are going to be some limitations and compromises. The end result still looks really good to my mind.

I'm incredibly excited about Oathmark

[robh]

For the elves I was hoping for something like this:
http://www.ralpartha.com/index.php/upcoming-releases/30-new-tom-meier-sea-elf

or this:
http://www.ralpartha.com/index.php/upcoming-releases/28-new-tom-meier-elf-wip

Absolutely.  Make the Northstar one look badly proportioned and crude....even after the skilful professional paintjob.

I don't see why the sculpting skill and design evident in the Goblin could not be carried over to the Dwarf and the woeful Elf.

[westwaller]

Yep that second Tom Meier sculpt has Elves just about right- struggling to lift his heavy axe!!