Wood Elf King

[Patrick]

Reaper Wood Elf King

Here is Reaper\'s fantastic Wood Elf King (#02934) sculpted by Werner Klocke and painted using Reaper Master Series paints. He features considerable freehand knotwork and was entered as the Dark Heaven Legends single small entry at ReaperCon \'06.

This majestic Lord of the Woods stands atop a custom sculpted treestump adorned with tiny brass-etched leaves. His armor is finished in a fine metallic gold and is layered with gloss coats to create an authentic shine. The rest of the figure is finished with Testor\'s Dulcote to insure lasting protection.

This was the figure I\'ve been practicing all that Celtic knotwork for! I love painting that stuff!

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Bid here!

 

[calcipher]

really beautiful. great freehand...and i especially enjoyed your description of the piece...dont think Im weird but for some reason it made me hungry????

 

[M. A. CORSO]

A real masterpiece... congratulation

 

[Ian Newbold]

Voted & cmmented.

 

[orctrader]

A really excellent piece. Love it all but especially the freehand.

Voted 9

 

[tidoco2222]

Saw this on minipainters and commented there, this is wonderful especially the freehand on the back of the cloak. right off to vote.

 

[Ogrebane]

Wonderful piece. Love the free hand. The description does sound a bit like a recipe desription tho. Great work, voted.

 

[airhead]

WOW.... did it win a Sophie?

 

[KingM]

Uber

Complicated freehand on non-flat surfaces always impresses me a lot. Those patterns are amazing

 

[supervike]

That is very well done. Congrats Patrick.

 

[EricJ]

now if only GW had Werner do their wood elves!

Nice job, the freehand really stands out, very crisp.

The bird looks a little...dirty to me, not as sharp as the rest of the piece, I think the whites could have gone a bit brighter to help ballance out the front piece visually from the nice pure white cloth.

 

[Patrick]

Thanks everyone! It was really fun to do. I worked on it off/on for about 3 months in preparation for the contest, (my first painting competiton - not including net stuff). I have about 10 hours total in just the knotwork alone.

@ EricJ - that was what actually hurt the piece was the damn bird and why it didn\'t place. I thkn GWs elves would be a LOT better had Werner done them.

I did get a bronze Sophie for my Warlord Wood Elf Archers and will post some pics once I recover from con-lag and rifle through all the photos.

 

[RedSevenBlue]

OMG! I hope what I am sending you comes out this good! lol

 

[demonherald]

One question on this one guys.. Anyone know where I can get Brass etched leaves in that scale I seem to have no problem finding larger ones but not this scale..

 

[Patrick]

The brass etched leaves I used were the
Ash/Rowan and Oak designs.

 

[Marmoset]

Also try the 1:60-1:100 range of scalelink leaves, and look at the 1:32 pictures to get an idea of what they look like. Comes with a nice little booklet too

Awesome work Patrick

 

[Wappellious]

Incredible work on both the base and the mini!

I love all those tiny little touches... the fungus on the tree, the overhang, and the etched leaves.

The knotwork is, as many others have said, amazing!

Congrats!

 

[angus147258]

The base is really excelant! I want to get some of those brass etched leaves.