The Ancient Kin - An Elf Project
20 Sep 18: Catalysed by a New Beginning
Greetings Fellow Beasts,
please find here for your perusing pleasure the assembly of a small band of Elven-kind from a range of heritage.
The miniatures below are mostly GW. Though I also have Mantic, Red Box Games, Grenadier and Ral Partha miniatures in the group too.
The Core of the projectI was a teenager in the 90’s when Warhammer Quest was released. My brothers, our friends and I spent many hours entertained by that miniatures based RPG.
Warhammer Quest inspired me to assemble a diverse collection of fantasy miniatures. D&D reinforced that inspiration. I feel that it is always a good option to have interesting minis for Characters as well as rank-and-file for minions, groups of NPC’s (friendly or not) and street-fillers.
The catalyst for the project was the beginning of a new D&D campaign where we the players had decided to all play as Elves. As it turned out our DM for this campaign, Damian, prefers pure minds-eye. Minis not required. Oh well ?
Some of the work already that leads in to this project:
GW High Elf Ranger Mage - painted Many years ago...
Mantic Elf Ranger from Dungeon Saga, painted more recently
Mantic Elf Ranger DS Resin 
As well as these guys, I’ve completed some Spearmen and Archers. The paint schemes were based on some of the very original paint schemes my brother Luke and I worked on in our early days of painting… you’ll know them when you see them…
The bases were an experiment using Happy Seppuku base stamp, an epoxy putty usually used for home repair and metal washers.
@rayzryr good to see some of the older models getting some love. I started with the monopose high elves and just cant get past the nostalgia. Those monopose archers look especially good. Looking forward to seeing some more pics!
Cheers @civilcourage yeah, those old Elves are among some of the minis I have owned the longest. My brother and I were gifted that old Warhammer Fantasy set as kids.
I went off them as more dynamic sculpts came into the market… but lately I’m looking at them and finding a certain simple charm to them ?
Will be interesting to see how the different ranges fit together. I’ll be watching this project for sure.
Thanks for the interest @donimator
Getting the various minis to work together may be a challenge… but I’m not too perturbed. Certainly paint style and colour choice will help.