My five old school High Elf Elyrian Reavers. When I started my woodelf army back in 1995 there were no cav models and I was desperate to have cavalry as I was and am a big fan of cav, afterall I wanted a Bretonian army. Nevertheless whilst Glade Riders were on the cards they weren’t yet out and certainly not in my corner of the world so I purchased a box of five Elyrian Reavers. They’re elves afterall, have bows and spears so close enough. These are therefore another unit painted very early on in my painting ‘career’ and as is my way follows quite closely (or as closely as my skill allowed) the GW colour scheme. At one point I sold them to somebody (having later purchased real glade riders) as high elves. I hated myself for it an later bought them back, very embarrassing. I still like them and still field them as Glade Riders in my wood elf army. At some point I might re-acutalise my high elf army (I briefly had the beginnings of one though these reavers were the only painted component) and they can go back to being Reavers, albeit very old style.
Rare Earth Magnets
So the three konigstigers came with 6 rare earth magnets. Rather than divide them up amongst the tanks and using them for holding, I don’t know turrets? in place I used them on my flak38’s which kept coming apart. (sorry martin I’ll buy some more magnets and replace your share)
Well the theory was sound and after drilling a magnet sized hole in the gun platform and another in the base of the gun mount and gluing them in place they work rather well. Unfortunately all the handling of the gun during the process knocked off a fair bit of paint and well a couple of them could do with a repaint, a slight problem given I don’t have an airbrush yet to do the camo. Also there was an issue with the hot stuff super glue and I managed to all but strip one of them men. So ruined some of my best painted FJ but on the upside the guns now clip in place and don’t fall off at the drop of a hat. Hmmmm……
Picture as promised.
Mounted Wood Elf Spellsinger
Painted pretty early on (when spellsingers were called mages) this was for a long time my best painted model. Using the GW colour scheme for the model but with a limited palette, like no bleached bone type colour, made for a lot of experimenting. Still it came out ok even though the skin is a bit dark for an elf. I really like the model, even quite like my paint job. For ages it was my only mage in the wood elf army which was kinda problematic as I really didn’t like fielding mounted mages, I still don’t so now days he’s consigned to the cupboard.