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Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:03 am
by legendariopaladin
Hey everybody, I´m new in this fórum and I really love this site, there is a lot of inspiration for my dark elves army. I´m an appassionate of scenary and buildings so I´ll show you some of my Works too.
Hope you like it.

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And now the fortress i´ve made with my father. Hope you like it:

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Comments and critics are welcome!

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:47 am
by Calisson
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Impressive fortress! Size, details, no default. Compliments.
Lucky you are to have such a father!

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:09 pm
by Cold73
I couldn't agree more.
Very well made and detailed fortress....would love to have something like that.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:20 am
by Red...
Very very cool.

It's just such a shame that GW's siege rules are so inadequate for using castles in a game :(

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:46 am
by Lion of flanders
Extremely cool! Is that a kit, scratch built or what?

It's really great.

As to the siege rules....seems like you could use the siege rules from an older edition with a minimal amount of modification, I would think.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:02 am
by Rowena
Wow, that fortress is really awesome! How long did it take you to build it and how did you do it? Are those hirstart bricks?

The models are also great, I especially like the hydra with its dark colour scheme, but put next to that breathtaking fortress, nothing else would probably be noticed too much.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 11:18 am
by legendariopaladin
Thanks guys, I´m happy that you all like the fortress.
The fortress took us like 2 years to be completed, but only working in it some weekends, I mean, there were some months that we didn´t do anything on the fortress, but other months that we were all the weekend working in it. It´s made by cardboard and polyestirene. I have tons of photos of the process so if you want to see them just let me know and i´ll upload some of them.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 1:59 pm
by direweasel
That fortress is outstanding. Some parts of it look very similar to the GW fortress they made a long time ago, that I have, while others look 100% completely original. It all comes together very well. Definitely a fan!

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 3:27 pm
by Red...
As to the siege rules....seems like you could use the siege rules from an older edition with a minimal amount of modification, I would think.
Yes indeed, I have previously, and the problem is they are exceedingly weak! :)

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:00 pm
by Rowena
legendariopaladin wrote:Thanks guys, I´m happy that you all like the fortress.
The fortress took us like 2 years to be completed, but only working in it some weekends, I mean, there were some months that we didn´t do anything on the fortress, but other months that we were all the weekend working in it. It´s made by cardboard and polyestirene. I have tons of photos of the process so if you want to see them just let me know and i´ll upload some of them.


If you have time, please do update the pictures, with commentary if possible. I am very inretested in the process.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:35 am
by Teowulff
legendariopaladin wrote:(...) the fortress i´ve made with my father (...)

Wow! Where did you get a dad like that? :P

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:58 pm
by T.D.
That is 1000% awesome :shock:

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:10 pm
by Dyvim tvar
Good stuff all around.

Would like to see more about building that fortress.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:14 am
by Justyn20003
I'm really digging the fall foliage, what did you use?

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:17 am
by legendariopaladin
The fall foliage is something I bought in Goblin Trader, a shop here in Madrid, Spain. It comes in two circular boxes and it´s pretty cheap, and with these 2 boxes you have enough foliage for 3 or 4 armies.

Here you have more details of the process of building the fortress. I just upload some photos of the main tower because all the other towers and walls are the same. Hope you like it. and of course, if you have any question just feel free to ask and i´ll give you a response when I can.

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Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:38 am
by Amboadine
That is some fine work. Impressive.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 2:45 am
by Saintofm
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Yeah, that sums it up for me.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:16 am
by Rowena
Wow, that's even more detailed than it seemed at first and I didn't even consider that easily possible! Thank you very much for the in progress photos and once more, you have me completely stunned. My admiration for you and your dad, you¨re both amazing!

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:30 am
by Vekerio
Amazing work! That fortress is brilliant, well done! Also, would you mind sharing what paints you used for your paint scheme on the models themselves? I'd love to try and emulate it.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 11:48 am
by Trilobite
Wow :shock:

Really love the construction documentation!

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:10 pm
by Gidean
Trilobite wrote:Wow :shock:

Really love the construction documentation!



+1!

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:20 pm
by Dyvim tvar
WOW

Thank you.

Is each stone on a wall an individual piece of foam? Or did you glue sheet foam to the wall then cut between the stones?

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:13 pm
by legendariopaladin
Dyvim tvar wrote:WOW

Thank you.

Is each stone on a wall an individual piece of foam? Or did you glue sheet foam to the wall then cut between the stones?


We made some lines of stone, and then cut between stones, and then glue to the wall. I don´t know if you understand what i mean, my english is not perfect lol.
But there are some places where each stone is an individual piece.for example in the corners.

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 10:49 pm
by Dyvim tvar
I think I understand -- thanks

Re: Dark elves army and warhammer fantasy fortress.

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2014 7:50 pm
by legendariopaladin
Some updates on the fortress! Here you have a WIP of the stairs to go up to the walls. Hope you like it!

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