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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 22:42:21 GMT -9
Thanks Osbert I just remembered that I have an old hard drive that I may have used to backup some of my mini files to. Crossed fingers and all that, hopefully I'll be able to find something on it.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 21:48:22 GMT -9
Oh i love that Tarot inspired Fool. I find myself liking the more brightly coloured version, but that might be more to do with my failing eyesight than anything else.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 13:39:01 GMT -9
I love the cat lady mini, I'm going to use her as a witch/wise woman in my Forces of Nature army I'm working on.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 10:11:30 GMT -9
Thanks dungeonmistress, - they certainly were a fun little army and featured such delights as a War Hedgehog among other things. Have you tried re-filling your printer cartridges? Back when I was doing a lot of paper terrain I did this to save money.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 9:57:36 GMT -9
Welcome wildagreenbough. I really like your Silk Road Elves, it is nice to see a different take on an elven army. Any chance of seeing your Sprite army again, I really liked the whimsicality of it, or were those files lost also? Thanks mahotsukai, my word you must have a good memory to remember my Sprites. Sad to say nearly all of that army was lost forever when my hard drive died, though I still have some bits and pieces and probably could revive them as well.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 9:35:45 GMT -9
Thank you very much for the welcome Unfortunately my children no longer play. They were pre-teens when we used to wargame together, but now very much adults in their mid to late twenties they've lost interest, but don't mind at all that I'm still as keen as ever I was. My Elves are 28mm which is my preferred wargaming scale. I have tried smaller scales, but flagged them away as I like to actually see the minis I'm playing with. I'm very touched that you all like my Elves as I'm not much of an artist and most of the work on them was done by cutting and pasting the basic drawings in MS Paint. Losing the original files was a blow, but at least I've got enough material left to try and recreate most of it. Because I like Elves I've already downloaded the PERMES Elf PDFs as well as the Elf bundle deal on this website. I must say that the quality of artwork that's available now is seriously impressive and makes my old Elves look a bit dowdy. I used to play using the Warhammer ruleset, but just lately I've been investigating Mantic's Kings of War rules and I'm putting together a Forces of Nature army using mostly 'Imperfect' minis which I think are delightful. Edit: Thanks for those links squirmydad, I'd seen the Fantasy sampler, but for some reason had missed the other two. I'm seriously thinking about putting together an UnDead army so I can have some 'bad guys' to fight against, but I'd like to get the FoN army completed before I distract myself too much with another army.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 0:47:26 GMT -9
Oh my word, those fences are amazing! They are definitely going down on my shopping list.
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Post by wildagreenbough on Apr 26, 2014 0:18:53 GMT -9
Hello everyone, a long time gamer here who is just getting back into it again after several years away from the hobby caring for my elderly Mum. While I enjoy assembling, converting and scratchbuilding plastic and metal minis as well as painting them I've never been quick enough at it to field entirely painted armies and usualy end up with lots of Legions of the Grey on the field of battle. Some years ago when I was still regularly going to a local wargaming club I was asked to join in a battle set for two weeks time and when I asked how many points worth of minis to bring I was told 2000pts. And along with that information the parting comment was, 'You're an Elf player aren't you? - be nice to see a nice big army of Elves for a change.' Panic! Most of my armies were set up around a 1000pt maximum because before joining the club I'd been mostly wargaming with my children and we'd mostly play short skirmish type games. Yes I had Elves, but what a mix of different makes and paint schemes they were and besides that I was seriously lacking in some troop types. I'd never really thought about paper armies before, but I had been making quite a bit of printed paper terrain to use in games with my children and some of it was really nice and had attracted favourable comments at the club. Soooooo what I decided to do was make myself some artwork and print myself off 2000pts worth of Elves. At the time I was interested in the arms and armor of the Silk Road which led me to creating an Elf colony army around a Silk Road theme. What particularly made my mind up was not knowing how to make an adequate printed paper chariot so I went for War Elephant proxies. I made up a dragon by enlarging and modding a piece of clip art (and I did the elephants the same way too), but I didn't really want to use a dragon because of the points cost, so I tried to make some Great Eagles and failed miserably. Time was running out so I grabbed a piece of clip art for a flying insect of some kind, blew it up larger and did a quicky tidy up so it didn't look too horrible. The night before the battle found me frantically cutting out and basing up a spear-Elf regiment. And then I realised I'd done no artwork for mages! Clipart for two little butterfly winged faires was turned into a pair of minis in virtually the raw state and at last I had my army. War Elephants, Skirmishers and 'Mages'. Archers with Standard Bearers. Silver Helm Cavalry. Centaur Light Cavalry. Artwork sample for she-Elves with spears. Unused left over bits and bobs. Unfortunately the battle did not go my way. I'd never fought UnDead before so made some silly mistakes; My two little fairy mages managed to blow themselves up with miscasts right from the get go; And that spear-Elf regiment I'd laboured over the night before failed their nerve test and ran off the table in the second turn. After that it all turned to custard pretty quickly (sigh). BUT everyone at the club liked my printed Elf army and thought it was a really great way to get an army together in a hurry; - so in a way it was a kind of a win for me I still have my paper Elf army and they look as good as the day I printed them off over ten years ago now. Unfortunately due to hard drive blow ups & etc I no longer have my original artwork for my Elves, but I do have some of the left over off cuts from the A4 printed sheets. I suppose I could rescan them and rework them to freshen them up as I do really like the minis I made for this army. Now that I'm back with the hobby I puddled around a bit with my old plastic and metal minis, - only it wasn't long before I started to have a look at what was available in the way of PDFs for download as I started to put new armies together. The response from mainstream gamers I talk to on various wargaming forums has been somewhat underwhelming when I mention paper minis so I thought I'd come here and find some like minds who know how much fun you can have with paper minis. (Deep breath) So that's my introduction, I hope it wasn't too long and boring.
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