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Wood Elves Durthu

So I got this fellow for my birthday and was eager to paint him and just as eager not to mess it up.  Obviously putting  paint on the figure was a good start on the way to messing it up so I was a bit torn.  At a $113 doing a poor job would be a disappointment difficult to accept.  Anyway having it sit in a box forever would also be a shame so I stuck it together and primed it.

I recently changed my superglue from some rubbish GW stuff to some traditional salleys glue.  The later sticks fast on contact and is super strong unlike the GW stuff which has become weak and tacky.  Unfortunately this meant that when I stuck it together I didn’t have much time to position it and alas the sword and the head aren’t quite where I would have like them to be.  Rectifying this mistake would have required a saw and some greenstuff, and I wasn’t prepared to go there in light of my desire not to mess the figure up, wimp I know.

it is a beautiful model very three dimensional which made it tricky to paint, although not as bad as I thought it might be.  It’s also surprisingly durable, though I still managed to break of a bit of a branch and the longer of the two splintered pieces of wood sticking out his elbow.

I’ve tried to faithfully reproduce the paint scheme even though I have few of the colours and was constantly mixing paint as a result.  Wasn’t sure about the blue, still not to be honest.  Was tempted to make the blue mostly grey but struggled to get it right so just went with the blue.  Anyway very happy with the result, it is a stunning piece and whatever you think of the colour scheme it is a striking piece and I believe/hope that I’ve done it justice.

(hmm I think the blue looks even bluer in the picture too :-\)

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Warhawk Riders

These guys are recently painted (three – four months ago, lol ok not that recent).  Bought them second hand and have been sitting, primed in my cupboard for five years or so.  When I read the new wood elf book I figured these were probably something I’d want painted up.  When ever I’ve taken hawks in the past they’ve always been high achievers, but it always seemed to be good luck rather than my ability to use them or their inherent characteristics.  In the new book though they are monstrous cavalry, meaning the naked toughness 3 elf is not a 3 wound toughness four model.  On top of that the hawk and the elf are strength 4 on the charge with armour piercing (hawk has killing blow), elf has an asrai longbow and they’re skirmishing fast cav.  All for a slight cost increase effectively a better great eagle for 5pts less (although a great eagle is a single model so still has it’s place).

Regarding the paint/modelling, really hated doing these guys, not sure why to be honest, thought they’d be fun struggled to enjoy painting them.  Still not totally convinced with some of the choices I made even though like usual I modelled them on games workshops ones.  Part of it may have been the hawks are so heavy that the spindly stand really struggles to support it.  So many times I broke the stands.  I was quite over it by the time I finished.  The photos probably won’t show it but some of the stands have a pin in them now with heavy gauge wire (which I use for pins usually) wrapped around the plastic stem to help support the very thin plastic at the end that holds the pin.  Works well but just serves to remind me of how fragile they are and what I inevitably have to look forward to when they break again in the future.

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Dryads (2nd Unit)

This is my second unit of dryads.  Painted them over a year ago, back when dryads were still some of the best infantry in the game 🙁 unfortunately the new book changed that.  Reduced their points by 1 but also their ward save by 1, their strength by 1, their initiative by 1.  They lost skirmish, increased min unit size to 10.  They can’t take a banner and they can’t take a standard.  On the flip side they got hatred and the ward save isn’t negated by magic.  All in all though I think it’s widely agreed by players and opponents alike that they have been hit kinda hard.  As they stand their role in the army is greatly diminished and the points almost certainly better spent elsewhere. Such a shame as they are awesome models and I have 29 of them.  I can think of numerous ways they could be fixed but I think the quickest and easiest would be to give them back skirmish and reduce their min unit size to 5.    I based them just before the new book came out.

For whatever reason they seem a bit shiney in the photo like the matt varnish was not so matt or in fact glossy, this is not the case in real life.  And the photo is a bit dark.

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