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Author Topic: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger  (Read 7165 times)

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2011, 05:25:22 PM »
Heresy's own Celistophel

My God, it's full of chin!  o_o


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Offline Faust23

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2011, 06:52:11 PM »
Ithandir gets my vote, as well as Sylvanus with 2 swords from Gamezone.

For archer, Scarloc's Wood Elf Archers are pretty sweet. My favorite is the dude with the eye patch.
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Offline Heldrak

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2011, 06:56:54 PM »
For archer, Scarloc's Wood Elf Archers are pretty sweet. My favorite is the dude with the eye patch.

Again, teeny-weeny in comparison with the bloated figures of today...  ::)
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Offline Conquistador

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2011, 06:58:17 PM »
My God, it's full of chin!  o_o

And then some!   :o

Or would that be Chin some?

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Offline mweaver

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2011, 05:14:07 AM »
No pictures to post at the moment, but I have made a couple of nice male elf conversions using a mix of GW's new plastic corsairs and the plastic wood elf bits.  I've done two that way - firing a longbow, with sword and bow, and with sword and axe-thinige.  I used heads with the lower faces covered by scarves, but not all of the wood elf heads have masks or scarves.

I have also made some conversions of female elves using plastic Wood Elf and 40k Dark Eldar wytch bits.  They are the tallest members of this warband (the next Mordheim warband I am running - shadow elves), in part because the wytch-elf bodies are taller than the fantasy elf plastics... but it goes well with all of that black leather, if you ask me.  If you go with converting from plastic elf kits, you can assemble something that fits the weapons and armor combinations you have in mind.


Offline generulpoleaxe

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2011, 11:17:48 PM »
This one from red box could fit the bill (it's the one on the right. bow and quiver are on the back.)


Offline mweaver

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2011, 11:52:21 PM »
Beautiful job on those figures, generulpoleaxe!

He is looking for something a little bigger than the Red Box figures, though.


Offline madmike

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #22 on: December 12, 2011, 12:17:05 AM »
Here are a couple from Darksword I like.

Female Ranger



Male Ranger

« Last Edit: December 12, 2011, 12:19:41 AM by madmike »

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Looking for the archetypal Elf Ranger
« Reply #23 on: December 12, 2011, 01:47:06 AM »
No pictures to post at the moment, but I have made a couple of nice male elf conversions using a mix of GW's new plastic corsairs and the plastic wood elf bits.  I've done two that way - firing a longbow, with sword and bow, and with sword and axe-thinige.  I used heads with the lower faces covered by scarves, but not all of the wood elf heads have masks or scarves.

I have also made some conversions of female elves using plastic Wood Elf and 40k Dark Eldar wytch bits.  They are the tallest members of this warband (the next Mordheim warband I am running - shadow elves), in part because the wytch-elf bodies are taller than the fantasy elf plastics... but it goes well with all of that black leather, if you ask me.  If you go with converting from plastic elf kits, you can assemble something that fits the weapons and armor combinations you have in mind.

I'd love to see pictures of those conversions, just to see how they look. But if you don't have a camera, it's no big deal.

In the meantime, I think I'm going to go with Ithandir and see if I can add a bow and/or a little gear (Anybody know a store with a decent price? Looking at a couple places where he's about $18 USD, plus $2-4 shipping to Canada).

It's a really nice mini, so in the worst case scanerio, I'm sure I can use it for another character.

 

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