Round 1 - Council_Prescients vs. Skeletonwitch

[Overlord]

[artshiraz]

Greetings

now these are two interesting entries. I would have liked a close-up from the eldars and the banner of the skeletons is huge. I mean HUGE. 

Good job
and good luck
Jo

[Raz]

Pil, nice banner! Love the hole in it so the banner-bearer is visible Nicely painted. Using those different colours on the command models really makes them stand out from the rank-and-file of your army. Also, skeletons being raised never gets old, does it?

Good to see some eldar on the LPL. Great choice to paint a Seer Council for this round, it doesn't get more HQ with eldar than that Some close-ups would have been great. Maybe after this round is finished?

[Pil]

Very cool Eldar Rholl06! It's good to see such a wide selection of Eldar seers and warlocks in Ulthwé colours, well done!

[Thantsants]

Lovely crisp painting on the Eldar - I was always tempted to collect an army of these guys although I would probably have copied the Alaitoc colours having been brainwashed by White Dwarf in the 90's!

Nice to see you revisiting an old theme Pil! 

Cracking banners and shields as usual and I love the witches - where are they from?

[Pil]

Thanks! There will be more undead in future rounds, I have lots more models to paint and the LPL is a good occasion to get to it The witches are AD&D liches from Citadel, I read on Warseer that there are seven variants but I can't find a page that lists them all. Here's a picture of another variant: http://www.solegends.com/citadd1/add94ghastwightliche/IMG_9571-01.htm

The banner is indeed about as large as I could make it. I wanted it to be suitably clear it's an army standard. The standard reads:
Good friend for Morrs sake forbeare
To dig the dust enclosed here
Blessed be the man that spares these stones
And cursed be he that moves my bones

Which is a slightly modified version of Shakespeare's epitaph. The banner itself is painted after a Skeletonwitch album cover:



Beneath it are the words odium aeternum (eternal hatred).

Skeletons rising from the grave are always fun. I tried to track down two more metal skeletons rising from the grave but I couldn't find them in time so one of them is plastic.

[D@rth J@ymZ]

  Pil, That is fantastic.  I liked the entry but the explanation of the banner is icing on the cake.  I'm glad to see that your undead theme has continued, you must have a legion by now...

[Braxandur]

Nice Eldar, though hard to see them clearly being dressed in black. The picture could do with being a bit sharper. Nice entry!

@Pil: who's wardrobe did these guys rob? Very disturbing colors for them liches and thesy will defenitly stand out. I now also understand why you said the banner would take some time

[chickenbane]

The Eldar are great and some of the undead are truly horrible sculpts but I still voted for them. Great job on both entries.

[Pil]

Pil, That is fantastic.  I liked the entry but the explanation of the banner is icing on the cake.  I'm glad to see that your undead theme has continued, you must have a legion by now...

I'm glad you appreciate my sources of inspiration

@Pil: who's wardrobe did these guys rob? Very disturbing colors for them liches and thesy will defenitly stand out. I now also understand why you said the banner would take some time

Yeah, for some reason I think pink clothing works really well on these undead. The colours indeed do help them to stand out

The Eldar are great and some of the undead are truly horrible sculpts but I still voted for them. Great job on both entries.

Thanks! I myself love the sculpts but they're not to everyone's taste