[Preview] Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas

yeah he is, I can't get my stuff to show either :-/ ah the pleasures of new servers.

Same with me and my HoS project :(

Back to the topic - very nice terrain work (gotta love that ruined orc base
!), although I'm unsure about tropical plants (palm-trees etc.), Caer Darrow isn't that warm I think, in War2 it was covered with snow...

Palm Trees: Don't worry, the island will get mixed forest, composed of Ashenvale, Lordaeron and my own trees. It'll also have a lot of old ruins all over the place. I want to make Island of the Stone look like the second capital of Quel'Thalas - enchanted forest, combined with a powerful fortress around the new Runestone, a port sarrounded by Elven Buildings, carved deep into a rock - kinda like Mithlond (Grey Heavens) in LoTR,... You know, the usual enchanted stuff.

Three new shots today, before I return to modeling for a few days:

No.1: The main port of Caer Darrow. Buildings will be made "cooler" as the map develops

No.2: The Temple of Caer Darrow, one of the most sacred places in Quel'Thalas. The Great Runestone (or what's left of it) is on the hill to the left (you can't see it).

No.3: Forest Troll's Altar of Shadows in it's final version

Btw.: Xaran, I think your Troll Worker will loose his status. I intend to use him for a suicide bomber (his backpack effectively changing into a dynamite pack) and I will make a troll worker myself (with lumber and gold carried around :)).

No problem Tufy :) And great shots :D

ga...gagaaa...alllttarrr offfvvaaa shadow.... <drools>
that's awesome...one suggestion though...weren't there chains connected from the arms to the dogs?

There were chains, but are no more. It just didn't look right with those two axes in Troll's hands.

Anyway, two shots today:

First, an archer I made as a test for something. It'll be available for public download soon, as I don't intend to use it for CaQT.

Second, an entrance to Wood Elf base. Nothing that special, but I wanted to show the wooden wall I made for Wood Elves (destructible, of course :))

You ever wondered how come no Elven ship ever crashes into the reefs around Caer Darrow? Well, here's the reason:

this is by far the best mod i have seen around. i like the wooden wall alot. i thought about making buildable walls for my campaign, but it would be such a mess: rotation etc. I like the robed preist alot too. the one building in the picture of caer darrow with the circular peaked roof looked very nice.

I'm still having problems with web site, but expect it to be back soon.

Anyway, here come two more models:

1. A Strider model for HoS. It'll be used as a Wood Elven hero in CaQT, but will be slightly modified to fit my needs.

2. The face of the Vampire. I'm still thinking of adding something to make him... well, evil.

I know that it's maybe a little late to say it, but I really don't think the vampire concept goes well with the world of wc and Tolkien-like fantasy in general (though the dreadlords might be considered as vampiric demons). Except for that awesome models (like always).

One suggestion tufy. Why not change the ears of the high elf archer used in the campaign into more high elven like ears? Right now they are too similiar to night elves imo.

One thing you could do with the strider model is to add more armour to it. Give it chainmail or scalemail. The swordes look too good to change except of the handle. It is very similiar to handles upon asian weaponry.

Well, the vampires are actually corrupted mages of Arathor (united human kingdom in the past). Most of them are shadow magic casters, only their lesser kin (Vampire Initiates, but I'm still working on the name, like Shadow Walkers or something) drinks blood (similar to life drain ability, except it works in range 100 and paralises target).


Taken into consideration. I'll see what I can do, but I still have a lot of animating to do right now.


Hm, not a bad idea.

Another building in progress, this will be eagle nest for construction of Eagle Riders.