Seal Elf Conversion bits greens

Now in the previous post I've shown some images of Sea Elf conversion bits, mixed with Perry Miniatures and GW bits, but it occurred to me I actually failed to show the conversion bits I was talking about. They were posted to the Facebook page, but not here.

To elaborate a little, these are based on salvaged components from the various sea elf greens and while their parts may not be designed to be interchangeable, they work pretty well and most of them don't even require any filling or filing. So the idea is to make these available as conversion sets, either to be combined into new unique sea elf figures or mixed with third party components.

The weapons will be the same hands with spears, halberds or axes from the sea elf core infantry sets.

There will be 25 heads (20 male, 5 female) which will consist of the ones shown below and the 6 bald heads:

There are 10 bodies (8 male, 2 female), 2 of which are kneeling :

For the time being, I have these sets of arms: 6 different, with the fifer arms as a bonus.The weapons will be the same hands with spears, halberds or axes from the sea elf core infantry sets.

All of the above have been cast in metal and I only need to find the time to clean some castings to send of for productionmoulding.

This may or may not get expanded with the original dolly components made for this range:

Sea Elf Command Greens

It's been a while without update for the elves, but here is a preview of 4/5 of the Core Infantry Command set. Sculpting courtesy of Mark Evans as usual.

First, the first of two champion figures, A Sea Elf Captain with interchangeable head (4 head options will be supplied in the set). This one was inspired by the Man With No Name (hence the poncho):

The second champion comes with separate head, separate shieldhand and alternate weapon arms (sword or axe). This one looks rather dynamic, in contrast to the more static pose of the first one. Also shown, one of the additional head variants (with helmet):

Another favourite in this set is the female fifer. The images speak for themselves, really:

 Last one for these previews (there is another musician that I will show later), is the standard bearer, shown here with the optional standard pole toppers. The latter have a unifying nautical theme (these are Sea elves after all).

More Sea Elves

Another update on the Sea Elves. The greens for sets 1-3 have been mastermoulded. Once I get the castings back, I can check for moulding damage and see if anything else is required before they can go into a productionmould.

I also have new greens to show, being all of set 4 (handweapons) and 3/5 of set 3 (kneeling crossbows).

Set 4: Sea Elves with handweapons. These will use the hands with the axes from set 1 (not shown). As usual, 4 males and one female.

I like this one a lot, he could be used as a champion too.

The female one. She thinks she's a pirate. Arrrrrr.

Set 5 (60% of it). Kneeling crossbow poses (the bow is a separate part and not shown here).

Sea Elf Greens - Part 2

I've shown these on the facebook page, but only got around to adding them to the blog now. All the figures are sculpted by Mark Evans.

First off, the greens for the second set of Sea Elves. These will come with separate hands and include weapon options for handweapon+shield, halberd+shield, spear+shield, twohanded halberd, twohanded spear or crossbow.
The bodies (4 male, 4 female). The female and the one in the upper right corner are just wonderful in my opinion:

Some of the weapon options:

An overview with most of the bits (the weapon+shield options are the same as in the first set and not shown here):

The third set will not be modular and is a pure crossbow set. Again, there are 4 male and 1 female figure. I love these!

A closer look at the female figure:

And the loader, one of my favourites:



Sea Elf Greens

The upcoming new faction will be Imperialised Sea Elves. Sculpted by Mark Evans.

"When the seafaring Elves reached the lands of men, some settled down in the great port cities and set up a trade network between the elven homeland and the New World, as they called it, of men, dwarfs and other races. While they tend to stick mostly to their secluded quarters in the cities, over time they adopted a fashion sense that mimics that of their new home, albeit more elegant of course than the fabrics made by mere men." - from "A treatise on the people within the borders of Emperor Willem Karl's realm".

Unlike my previous projects, for this one we started out with dollies, which are generally basic figures consisting of a head, armless torso and legs. Because I wanted to avoid having all the poses have the same combination of torso and legs, we made some separate components instead to mix and match in the final figures:

Trying out a few combinations:

The various weapons and bits that will eventually be used in this project:

And the finished bodies for the first set. These will come with spear, halberd or axe option. More sets (in different poses) are being worked on:

Some assembled examples and a look at the weapon options:

More to come soon...