Here I am, coming out as high-sexual. @Jasko I retract all banter about you owning a high elf army because I am now one of your number!!!
This project began because I was reading the Simarillion and thinking about elves as a faction. I then played at my buddies house and saw his army in white and blue armour and found it very striking. I then realised how very cheap the monopose ones still are on eBay.
My combined love of Tolkien, monopose models and bargains converged and this project was born.
These are looking awesome! I always found that opening scene of LOTR very inspiring too and at one time had a high elf force inspired by the same color scheme, though it didn’t look as nice as yours. Looking forward to seeing more progress on this
Well, well, well, look what the cat dragged in.
Certainly happy you found your way to the blessed island.
And congrats for your bravery in making an official blog about it instead of just confessing this in a discord-DM during the wee small hours of the morning.
Bonus points for getting the oldhammer monopose sculpts, really like what you did with them. Those archers look awesome!
The reason I was asking is that any metallic non-silver paint is just mica (Muscovite for a bright silver and biotite for a dark silver) coated in a non-metallic color. So the warmth of the metallic surface should only depend on your secondary color. However, with the properties of contrast paint pooling in the recesses this sounds like a clever two step approach that avoids having to go over the model again like when applying a wash.
Really like these mate! Reminds meself when I was starting to the hobby and I did get some metal High Elves from local bookstore’s sale, did paint their armour bronze back then…
