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Valenar Elf

A relatively minor conversion of the WotC Gray Elf Deulist from the old Chainmail line into a Valenar Elf from the Eberron Campaign Setting. The diamond shaped double bladed sword had been converted into a double scimitar (the weapon of choice for the Valenar), the ears have been increased in size so that it actually looks like an elf, and I added a ponytail with hair tie ribbon, just because I thought it looked better that way. The color scheme comes more or less straight out of the book, earth tones, with gold embroidery. I threw in a nice forest green sash to round out the colors so it didn't come across as being monotone. The red dagger sheaths are there for a splash of color, silver trim to help tie the silver blades of the big weapon into the rest of the mini.

Posted: 17 Jan 2005

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Pellimore

I haven't posted a public comment in a while, so this was the first mini that drove me to do so. I'm not familiar with the model or the conversian, so my score is based off of the paint. You seem very good at justifying the mistakes and the deficiences in your model, though I hope you listen to what others have to say, because this model could be far better. First off, the base is distracting. It's one thing to do a simple base to focus on the mini (which I've seen plenty of wonderful tabletop minis with elaborated bases that still made the mini stand out and look great), but your base looks strait out tacky. The rocks and the foilage appears fake and very novice. A little work (even if it's nothing huge) could give the base a very realistic feel and enhance the mini. The ears look over the top, but that's opinion. You may want to try to make them look more realistic by smoothing over the colors and the depth of them. The silver looks flat, it has a clean feel, yet could use more depth. All of the brown and the green needs to be highlighted, you've underdone it to the point where he shows no contrast, no lighting, no depth. The gold is stunning, it's smooth and realistic and very clean. You might want to blend the silver parts on the wrist plates in a little bit because they stick out, but overall the gold came out great. Overall, your mini almost looks unfinished, if you touched up the base (a lot) and brought out the depth within the greens and the browns by contrasting and showing some more color, you would have a great model. Have fun! - Pellimore

1 Feb 2005 • Vote: 1

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Edymnion

Actually, if you look at the small pic from the back in the upper right hand corner, you can see a line of shadow from where I attatched the curved blade to the existing diamond shaped blade. Essentially all I did was mush out the right shape from greenstuff onto the blade, flattened it out, and let it cure. After it cured, I took some sandpaper to it to get it as flat as I could. The rest was just taking a file to the diamond shaped blades to remove the points to get a smooth edge. Its not perfect, you can see spots in three of the pics where the seems are. Big pic from the front, you can see the seam just to the right of his shoulder. Big pic from the back, you can see where the paint stuck differantly to the greenstuff and the metal just above and to the right of his elbow. And the most obvious one to me is the small pic from the back on the upper right where you can see a long straight line in the middle of the blade going from top to bottom. But maybe thats just because I know where to look for them.

31 Jan 2005

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