Looking for elves or Skaven

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Looking for elves or Skaven

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Hi all,

I need some advice from the BB community. Which are the best Skaven or Elf minis (for woodies probably) available?

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GW 2nd edition for Skaven.
GW 2nd edition for Elves.

Sorry to all my independent figure maker friends, but none of you have surpassed them. :oops:

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Yep, GWs 2nd ed elves and Skaven are imo some of, if not the best BB teams you can get.

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tastes vary of course, but my favorites are:

Skaven: GW 2nd ed. & Neomics Rats

Wood Elves: hard call.. honestly I'm not really thrilled about any of the wood elves out. GW 2nd ed elves don't really say 'wood elf' to me, but I've seen them done convincingly as wood elves, so they might be the best. I have some, but plan to make them my (pro)Elf team. Wood elves I'd be tempted to heavy kit bash from plastics or do a 'counts-as' re-skinning with something other than elf miniatures.

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Darkson wrote:GW 2nd edition for Skaven.
GW 2nd edition for Elves.

Sorry to all my independent figure maker friends, but none of you have surpassed them. :oops:
True dat! ;)

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2nd ed skaven and i don't know what for the woodies...
btw, i also use the 3nd ed elves as pro elves.

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Cheers guys

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el Superbeasto wrote:
Darkson wrote:GW 2nd edition for Skaven.
GW 2nd edition for Elves.

Sorry to all my independent figure maker friends, but none of you have surpassed them. :oops:
True dat! ;)
To be fair, both were sculpted by Jes Goodwin, who is IMO the best mini designer on the planet. There are lots if talented 3rd party designers, but for Elves and Skaven, the bar has already been set very, very high.

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In all honesty, I don't particularly care for most Skaven blood bowl figs. They all seem too static to represent the lithe, nimble, rats. As such I much prefer custom built models based off of the crypt ghoul figures by GW.

As for elves, I think the last version of pro elves manufactured by GW, not sure which edition they are considered, are pretty good figures, though some of their poses are kind of dumb.

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