Wardancer

I also like the cups a lot. At first I thought the transparent one was the ones Starbucks use for iced coffee, but now I see it is a stack of lids for the cups. Also the display with the cherry and (caramel?) cake/sweets looks very good.

I tried it with old Warhammer decals (pictures coming soon). It worked well, even coating it with a layer of clear matte paint. I had to do this because Warhammer decals are very sensitive, they might fall of otherwise. However,if I look closer I can see tiny "irregularities" at some of the stickers edges. This might be due to the fact that my decals were very old. Also I applied many small decals to a small area, It might look better with less and smaller decals.

A detailled overview and a history of all castle sets since 1978 has been done in German: http://www.rittersets.de/ Click "Suche nach Jahr:" to show the years and "Suche in numerischer Folge:" to show by numbers. You can also sort by faction. I hope this helps with your project.

This looks great! Seeing this encourages me to try it on my own elves. Thank you!

This should show how its made: unten von MWardancer auf Flickr I tried it with the cheese slopes in front, but it looks a bit to heavy for my taste. The original high elven ballista shoots 4 spears at the same time, maybe this is worth a try.

Good to hear that you like it. Mounting it on ogres is an application I never imagined! Feel free to copy and modify it. Tomorrow I'll take a picture from below which can serve as instruction. The idea with the brown wing is good, maybe I'll try this for my elves. What I like about the space wing though is that it looks sort of light and elastic. I am not entirely happy with the string which needs a knot on every end. There are strings with round 1x1 plates at the end, but I did not manage to find one in the proper length yet. I am working on other Warhammer wood elf oriented mocs and mods, but this may take a while.

I find it hard to paint weapons, because the paint is scratched off when the weapon is inserted in a minifigs hand. Ist there a way to avoid this? I am using "Revell" email paint with a clear coating afterwards, but it still happens.

This is the first time I do this, so excuse any errors. This is my first MOC as an adult. I tried to recreate the Warhammer high/wood elven spearthrower for my knights army. I am not sure if this is worth a thread, but I need to practice posting things anyway. While this is in no way a complex or very creative work, I am quite happy with its versatility and small size. I know I will use this simple thing on castle towers, ships, carriages and so on. My wood elves will get a black version I guess, as the space wing part does not come in dark green or reddish brown. I hope to finish an elven spear frigate soon, which will carry a few of these. For some reason, I built 10 of these, but at the moment I think 5 is enough for my knights army. So, I hope this works... VLUU L310 W / Samsung L310 W von MWardancer auf Flickr VLUU L310 W / Samsung L310 W von MWardancer auf Flickr VLUU L310 W / Samsung L310 W von MWardancer auf Flickr VLUU L310 W / Samsung L310 W von MWardancer auf Flickr VLUU L310 W / Samsung L310 W von MWardancer auf Flickr

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I hope to upload some first pictures soon.

Hi, I have just signed up to the forum, so I should introduce myself. I am from Germany, 31 years old, so nothing special I guess. Currently I am building an Elven army and some bigger Elven equipment (top secret!), I managed to get about 30 elves from the shops in my home city and I feel I need different types of them, so I have started modding and equipping them. I have played Warhammer High Elves and Wood Elves for a few years, so I try to import some of their ideas into LEGO. Also I am building an army of crown knights, who doesn't? I regard LEGO as one on the biggest influences of my childhood. I see my current job, writing a book of about 300-400 pages as builing with words instead of bricks. In a way, I never stopped building. Ironically, it was Farmville, that idiotic parasite of the facebook age, which brought me back to lego after 15 years of abstinence. After playing Farmville excessively for 3 months, I asked myself "Why on earth am I playing this?". I looked at my "farm" and saw: I had build a castle! High walls, horses with barding, penguins in lack of knights. So I realised that by playing Farmville I had tried to fill the void that quitting LEGO 15 years before had left. Apparantly, there seems so be a genetic disposition in some men to buid small worlds with knights, and if that's true, who am I to go against it?! There were 3 aspects that I liked about farmville: Building, collecting and searching for news and upcoming event. I browsed the the web and realised that LEGO in its current form would enable me to enjoy these three things to the maximum. Building with bricks, of course, is way better than playing with (rotatable! wow!) Farmville graphics. Collecting bricks and minifigs is now possible globally due to Bricklink, Ebay etc.. Forums, such as this one, satisfy my curiosity for new stuff. So I abandoned my level 70 farm, repented, fetched my old LEGO boxes down from the attic and kneeled down humbly in every toy store in my city to extract the Elves by identifying the dot codes.