High Elf Elyrian Reavers

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.

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.

Waywatchers

Here are six of my eight waywatchers.  As you can see three have black bows and a more green and black colour scheme where as the other three have bone coloured bows with something of a more autumnal theme to them.  Really nice models though kinda showing their age now both in sculpting and my painting ability.  This is a time when I used my own colour schemes and you’ll see I did weird stuff like painting green boots… I’ve done that several times when using my initiative and not once have green boots or gloves looked acceptable.  The one thing I am happy about is the eyes.  The eyes on my waywatchers are some of the best I’ve ever done.