An elf

This is an old Grenadier elf by Mark Copplestone. I wanted to try out the simplified painting method I've been using on my Nick Lund orcs on a different designer's miniature. The method involves just base colour and a single highlight for most areas, with a third highlight on the flesh. I cheated here and added another highlight on the leather, though it was the same colour I was using to highlight the trews. 

I'm reasonably pleased with how the elf turned out. Oddly, the two-tone approach seems to work OK on both the 'messy' Lund miniatures and the very 'clean' Copplestone ones. I suspect it might work less well on things that fall in the middle.