Dark Elves

[nikharwood]

Thanks mate.  The painting bit I find hard to believe Nik! 

Nah - I've not painted anything since February (just before we moved). Shocking 

I think that's the longest gap in about 25 years 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Nik - GET ON WITH IT !!!!!!! 

IanS

[nikharwood]

Nik - GET ON WITH IT !!!!!!! 

IanS

I know, I know...well said, Ian. Aren't you supposed to be watching a load of big puppets? 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

er NO...

[Ithoriel]

He's too busy here Nik ... chatting to a bunch of muppets 

[nikharwood]

 

That's a fair point.

I did like the dog though:

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Now I follow you......

been dodging a plague of bloody gof balls recently.

IanS

[nikharwood]

I never really got the point of golf.

I like cricket - when I hit a ball, someone else goes and finds it 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Golf -

a) Way to ruin a good walk
b) Scottish method of hunting rabbits - badly
c) Way to clear an area in a pub by terminally boring the people all around you.

Returning a ball - that's what my little sisters labs are for.

IanS

[jchaos79]

I've got a question.... why dark elves are blue?

I bought some dark figures painted and they were blue ( a litle light thann yours). Now I am expanding the army but I am painting the reinforcemens ... flesh color that is the natural way for me. For some odd reason I feel comfortable with the mix  .

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

No idea. Blame Gary Gygrax when they developed Drow for AD&D? 

[toxicpixie]

Becuase they live underground and are eeeevviiillll! The black helps them blend into the darkness... and be more eeeeevvvviiiilllllll!

[jchaos79]

Yep two good explanation.

Maybe toxicpixie's answer is less academic but is more convincent.

I didn't released that blue eeeevvvilll dudes comes from D&D and pale skin tone comes from GW world.

Thanks!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Shades of Blue Meanies - from "Yellow Submarine".

IanS

[O Dinas Powys]

I think it derives from the comic convention of shading black with blue, eg Superman's hair or Judge Dredd's uniform.

Gygax's drow were conceived as appearing like a photographic negative of a regular elf, hence black skin, white hair and eyes. He may even have used negatives to illustrate the weird, unlearthliness of their colouring.

The first place I remember seeing blue dark elves was in 1^st Blood Bowl, the playing pieces were cardboard stand-ups with a cartoony  illustration. The Darkside Cowboys were also shown as blue-skinned in the Blood Bowl 2 rulebook, although from the figures painted in White Dwarf and other illustrations pale skin was the more common choice.

Cheers,

Meirion