These are twelve of the twenty four archers you get in a wood elf battalion box. They’re from a second hand battalion box that was purchased so long ago I’ve forgotten. The box was pretty much as new except that all the sprues had been spray painted matt black. I prefer to clean and assemble the minatures before spraying them and this was a good reminder as to why. The mould lines were sprayed over making them difficult to see. The parts of the model that needed to be glued were covered in paint making them poor surfaces to fix and thus needed to be scraped. The minatures still needed to be clipped from the sprues and then cleaned up. All of which meant that most of the paint needed to be scraped off.
Anyway painted the cavalry and the dryads a long time ago (see previous blog posts). I was going to do all twenty four but just couldn’t bring myself to bite off so many and ended up doing only half of them. My own colour scheme, not totally convinced by it which is why I almost always follow Games Workshop colour scheme. They do rank up a little better than they are in the picture although I’ve had to number them because they do rank up only one way.
