[Warmaster][Wood elves] Building blog

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The Lost Kindred WIP. At last started painting my favourite loved fantasy faction. Simple oldschool strong colours: green and orange.

 

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The first unit of default archers. 12 hours painting from 'primed' to 'ready for basing'. Just fair layering, no washes, no contrasts, no trendy slapchop.

 

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WIP Scarloc's scouts. Almost ready except one small owl on the log, waiting for delivery. Skirmishing formation makes them alive, like they move through real wild forest. Logs and stump are from Cast'n'Play.

 

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Default dryads unit. Required by rules, not good in game, nor fit army theme, but very easy to paint. About 2 hours of lazy dry brushing.

 

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Some background for chosen army theme (in fact that's all). Started their journey a long ago, so their colours (and units) are old fashioned. And blue eyes...

 

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I know you wait for something very special. Here it comes! Treeman ancient and Noble on... giant owl. Even more stuff is just behind the corner.

 

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28mm wood elf archer by Avatars of War. Oldsсhool metal model, not perfect, nevertheless pleasant to paint. The base completed with a weasel from 'familiars' blister by Otherworld miniatures. Despite my love for small scale, I feel I still can paint 'standard' 28mm miniatures with tabletop gaming level more-less quick (1 day - 1 miniature).

 

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Blast from the past. Spirit of the Forest by Reaper miniatures, 28mm scale. Painted in 2010, all-metal, very heavy. My beloved proxy of treeman. These brutal fists looks contrast near graceful elves.

 

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Glade riders, the first squadron of light cavalry. Beloved, adorable cornets, fast and gallant. That was a nightmare to paint them, 3 features in one time made the process horrible. Bad paints (white, orange), bad poses (closed hand positions, riders on horses as one item), huge amount of details (just like they are at least 20mm, not 10mm).

 

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Second light cavalry unit, half brigade is done. Expectations were true: the greatest problem was the citadel white paint. The result is little darker, nevertheless I feel more satisfied with them.

 

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Just another quick painted terrain/objectives. Something should be done during tough time, so better 1 hour finished stumps than nothing at all. Now it's time to be revealed as continuation of assembling the troops.

 

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New regiment and they are very special guests here. Before current Revolution-edition Warmaster wood elves list requires 3 units of archers per 1000pts. How could I make them different and interesting? Hey, armybook said that Lumpin Croop's Fighting Cocks used to join wood elves. Moreover I had them in my 28mm WE army. Only one problem was here: WarpMinis made halflings with crossbows, but I needed archers. And today I have unique halflings! They can count as ordinary archers (who can stop me?), or they can be Famous Mercenaries with fresh version of rules. After Forest Dragon's minis they feel simple detailed, but it is still hard to paint orange jackets.

 

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Required minimum is ready. 10mm version of a highborn will act as my general. One of the best miniatures GW ever produced: those hair on the face, such contemptuous glance, flowing cloak. Why not Orion? He remained in Athel Loren and did not follow the Lost Kindred.
Waywatcher noble is a cheap companion, only 80pts. However I feel I will include her just for the stern owl on the base.

 

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Usually I don't post WIP's, but today I need some help. In the old edition's WHFB armybooks there were wood elves animal keepers or beastmasters. Their regiment consisted of a master and some different animals/beasts. So, the idea is to proxy a Wild Hunt regiment by 3 stands with beastmasters. In fact it will be much better than 4 equal units of deer-riders.
Which 3 stands do you prefer to choose?
1. Hounds from celtic range.
2. Boars.
3. Small bears.
4. Big bear.
5. Panthers.
6. Wargs 1 from vampire range.
7. Wargs 2.
The unit consists of 3 stands, so please try to choose 3 different numbers. 
Beastmasters are replaceable.

 

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The fourth unit of archers with bushes as fillers. Yes, they are fourth, halflings count as archers too. One of the quickest and easiest units to paint because of bushes (drybrush and some red leaves), and actually 9 of 15 warriors were already painted earlier.

 

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The second and the last unit of Dryads, at least for now. Minimum requirement for the 2000 standard is ready. As you can see on the last photo they are just the same height as FD dryads. They can be counted as 5th edition 'big' dryads with the 'oak' upgrade or just 'elite' regiment.
All the boring infantry is done at last, now it's time for cavalry and flyers!

 

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Someone asked me to make a family photo of the whole army. I think, it's time. Anyway I wanted to make a milestone record at some logical point. There is about 1500 pts army, minimum units for 2000 pts are done as well.
So, the left 3/4 is all done and completely ready. The owl's paw of the noble needs to be fixed, but it's so tiny thing.
The right 1/4 technically is painted, nevertheless they all need less or more attention. Some are just incomplete (like owl riders), some need rework or even replacement.

 

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WIP Voland’s Venators. Thanks to @minirat.studio for such amazing sculpts!
Yes, I know they should be in brass/golden armour. I think it doesn’t fit them. And I really hate awful golden paint.

 

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Simple and quick painted waystones. Yeap, when you travel for a very long time, you become more pragmatic than esthetic. No need to make ideal obelisks when you don't know how long you stay here or there.

 

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I have started the series of articles about assembling my Wood elf army. The theme is the Lost Kindred, the mysterious exile elves that live outside Athel Loren. I collect all the information about origins of different unit types, their background, models and tactics.
Articles are here: https://medium.com/@haroith
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