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High Elf painting guide.

Preperation…

Clean up the figure and shield removing any flash, then glue the model into the slotta base, leave to dry fully.  When the model is fully dry, prime the model with the Grey Acrylic Auto Primer.

Please note…You may use GW Black spray to undercoat your model, if you so wish, however the ‘Old Gold’ metallic paint covers far better on the grey primer than it does on black, so please bear this in mind before commencing.

Stage 1...

Paint the armour and shield with the Miniature Paints ‘Old Gold’ metallic paint, leave the paint to fully dry before commencing any further.  I usually paint a batch of about ten models or so at a time, so that the drying time of the paint is not really that much of a problem.

Stage 2...

Wash the armour and shield with thinned down Brown Ink.  When the ink is dry, lightly drybrush the armour and shield with Old Gold.

Stage 3...

Paint the face with Dark Flesh and highlight with Bronzed Flesh.  Wash the armour, shield and face with thinned Flesh Wash ink.  Lightly drybrush the armour and shield with a 50%/50% mix of Old Gold and Shinning Gold.  Add about 25%  of Mithril Silver into this mix, and very very lightly drybrush all of the armour plates on the model and the raised area’s on the shield.

Paint the mail undershirt with Chaos Black, highlight with Boltgun Metal, highlight again with Mithril silver.

Stage 3...

Paint the skirt, sashes and cloak with Regal Blue.  Paint the shaft of the spear, the glove holding the spear and the boots with Scorched Brown.  Boltgun Metal was applied to the spear tip.

Stage 4...

Mix a small amount of Imperial Purple into Regal Blue, and add a touch of Skull White.  This mix was then drybrushed on the skirt and sashes.  Add more Imperial Purple and Skull White until you have a ‘Lillac’ colour, and lightly drybrush the edges of the skirt and sashes again.

Mix 50% Scorched Brown with 50% Bestial Brown and highlight the shaft of the spear and the boots.

The eye sockets were painted Chaos Black, Skull White was then painted over this, just leaving a thin black line around the eye, a pupil was painted in with a black spot.   Elf Flesh was applied to highlight the flesh.  A final wash of thinned Flesh Wash ink was applied to the face.

A little Vomit Brown was mixed with Bestial Brown and was used to highlight the glove holding the spear, and the boots.  A wash of thinned Brown ink was applied over the glove and boots.

 Stage 5...

Imperial Purple was drybrushed over the cloak as a highlight, a little Bleached Bone was added to the purple and the cloak was drybrushed again.  A tiny amount of Skull White was added to the mix and a final light highlight was applied to the cloak.

Scorched Brown was stippled to the bottom of the cloak and skirt.  Then a mix of 50% Bestial Brown and 50% Scorched Brown was stippled over theses area’s again as a highlight.  Finally a little Vomit Brown was very lightly stippled over the bottom of the skirt and cloak as a final highlight.

Paint the detail on the sides of the spear with Old Gold and wash with thinned Flesh Wash ink.  Highlight the spear tip with Mithril Silver.

Superglue the shield to the model.  I then applied two thin washes of Blue ink to the ‘Tear’ shaped Boss of the shield.

Brush PVA adhesive onto the base, and dip the base into the GW Sand.  Brown ink was washed over the sand and allowed to dry.  Drybrush the sand with Bestail Brown, add a little Fortress grey to the brown and drybrush again.  Add a small amount of Bleached Bone to the mix and lightly drybrush again, finally very lightly drybrush with neat Bleached Bone.

Add Static Grass to the base to suit, and paint then paint the edge of the base, I use Bestial Brown on my models.

Another fully finished High Elf to do battle with the forces of Evil. 

If you paint the miniatures in batches of about 6 to 10 models, the painting time per model is greatly reduced, as you are not waiting for the paint or inks to dry on each individual model. 

My typical painting session is usually in the region of about four to five hours or so.  Using the above painting method I can finish about 10 High Elf models  per session.