We painted a ‘90s Vintage High Elf Army for Warhammer the Old World

This was a fun one! The client’s key request was to get this army painted in the style shown in the 4th and 5th Generation High Elves Warhammer Armies books.

In addition to just straight forward painting, there were some other concerns we had to sort in order to get that proper retro look. Namely banners, old school green flock, freehand painting.

We could scan the army books or following parts of art on the boxes. There were some units like the Swordmasters of Hoeth, which required some research online. While the images we found were low resolution, we retouched the pictures for the banner to be clearer. Figuring out the shapes and elvish ruins became an easy process with existing reference materials.

With trial and error, we managed to recreate the banner designs. After scaling them to the right size, we made metal banners by cutting metal sheets and then put it all together.

The decals themselves are printed on special clear transfer paper, which we printed on using our office InkJet printer. 3 main coats of clear lacquer at 15 minutes apart was required after. Because the banners are primed in white, the transfers are very easily visible.

Here are a few gallery shots of the precious army in question. These were done to a mix of Showcase and Exhibition Quality:

Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

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High Elves Miniature Painting: Painting Up a Large Army with Pretty Much Everything

We got to paint more High Elves, and this time, there are so many minis that it’s almost everything.

These were done to Exhibition Quality.

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Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Warhammer the Old World: Painting Tomb Kings like its 2004

We painted our first Tomb King's army somewhere in late 2005 or early 2006. We had been asked to dip the skeletons; something that was as unusual to me as miniature painting in general was. It worked out, and now, Almost 20 years later, here are some Tomb Kings again in the studio. This time though, we knew what we were doing. 

These are the Tomb King figures from Games Workshop's Warhammer the Old World box set. 

These were painted to Showcase and Exhibition quality.

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Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Warhammer the Old World: 30-year-old Orcs painted to look like 30-year-old Orcs

I quite enjoy seeing classic Warhammer in the building, especially Orcs and Goblins! You can’t beat them for ridiculous humor and OTT design. All the minis in this order were classic, the orcs alone are over 30 years old. For this job, we weren’t just to paint them but capture that old school, ‘90s look of their era.

We freehand painted the designs on the shields. The green on the basing is Goblin Green - not a reconstructed blend, but the color from an extremely well preserved bottle of Citadel Goblin Green. Note the old school flocking, too.

For the banners we had a bit of fun. There were only paper shield designs for two. For the rest, we got some designs and printed them on to decal paper. After that, we cut sheet metal and mounted the decals on them, painting to blend them in.

These were done to Exhibition Quality.

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Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).

Warhammer the Old World: Some High Elves Miniature Painting Service

We haven’t done High Elves in years. We’re better painters now, and have a better appreciation of High Elf cavalry sculpts. The Dragon Princes of Caledor are particularly impressive figures that have aged well.

High Elf cavalry look good even with basic paint job. With advanced ones, they look miles better!

These were done to Exhibition Quality.

Shameless tags: miniature painting service, warhammer painting service, warhammer 40k painting service, miniature painting services, miniature painting commission, professional miniature painting, miniatures painting service

Paintedfigs is a commission miniature painting service. You can send us your figurines to paint, and we also have painted miniatures for sale. We paint mainly Games Workshop (Warhammer 40k, Warhammer Fantasy, Age of Sigmar, Necromunda, Space Hulk, Bloodbowl, and so on), Star Wars, Warmachine and Hordes, and pretty much every Kickstarter and board game under the sun.

And we do so at the lowest rates on Earth (we’ve checked).