Greetings everyone, Sturgeon here. Welcome to my hobby blog! I’ve always been more of a closet painter than a gamer. Unfortunately, that means I rarely feel pressured to finish anything! I was recently looking at my elf army I started several years ago (originally made for Warhammer 8th edition) and was disappointed by my progress. Hopefully this blog will galvanise me into painting more minis!
As a teaser of what is to come I though I’d start off by posting some of my completed miniatures.
3 regiments of forest shamblers (I know, they aren’t elves!)
That’s it for now. I’ll update later with some hobby goals for the next 6 months and a WIP of some Hunters of the wild (going to be my first multibased unit(s)!)
Reminds me of the ol’ Warhammer days of my youth, but never seen one with such detailed and painting on the table back in those days. Choice of color is also really great, really good contrast and the colors really “pop”.
Time to make a public declaration on my hobby goals for the rest of the year!
Complete x2 troops of hunters of the wild (multibase).
Paint a tree herder.
Paint a lord on dragon.
Make scenic movement trays for my existing infantry.
Paint 8 more palace guard and sea guard to make x4 hordes of 24 miniatures each (60% full).
That’s 5 goals for 5 months!
Anyway, enough of the boring stuff, time for the WIP! I’m starting with the Hunters. I’ll be using GW dryads (not the most original) and I want 6 or 7 per troop base. I have now painted 2 test models and decided on what to go with.
Here is the first test model. I was trying to cut corners by making the head blue bark, but I didn’t like the result.
Brilliant paintjob, as always. I just don’t like the Shambler models. The whole new GW wood elves aren’t very ‘woodlike’. The old elve models though, really nice to get this ‘blast from the past’.
I understand what you mean about the new sylvaneth (think that’s spelt right) range from GW. I see them more as elf “fairy” than “woods come to life”. I’m still a big fan though!
These tree people are taking a lot longer than I thought. Good thing this is a hobby blog so I can post WIPs!
I just finished the blue bark highlights, which was a lot of fun. For anyone whose interested, I do an extreme highlight method.
base coat in dark blue
do a dark wash all over the bark
highlight the edges of the bark with a lighter blue
do an “extreme” highlight with 50:50 light blue and white. Just do this along the edges or ends of the previous highlights. If the highlight is not on a hard edge, do it in the middle. You want to cover about 20-25% of the previous line.
dot highlight on the sharpest points with pure white.
I am pleased to announce that the first item on the list for completion in 2021 is complete. I present to you my multibased troops of Hunters of the wild!
I also managed a few bonus points for doing 3 troops instead of 2. This was because I was originally going to put 7 models on each base, but it just didn’t look right to me, so I painted an extra mini.
I really enjoyed the multibasing. I’m even considering rebasing the whole army in some state of madness. If anyone can tell me the best way to clip out slotta base models I’d be grateful.
On several of my Twilight Kin units I simply glued the slottabases onto a flat multibase, then filled the spaces in between either with some cork first and then spackle/filler, or in some cases just filler.
You can see the start of the units in THIS thread.
Thanks @MarkG! I was hoping the Tree Herder would fit on the 50mm without any assistance, but it was nothing a little cork couldn’t fix.
I think I’m going to do something similar @FredOslow. I remember a few tutorials focused on turning GW square based minis into rounds for AoS that I’m going to try and replicate.
Their answer to the slotta base question won’t work for MDF though. Good thing the minis I want to do this on don’t have metal tabs!
Wow! That’s a beautiful combination between High Elves and Sylvaneth, though I may be biased as the spiteful forest pixies are my second favourite range of GW miniatures.
How long did it take to highlight the Drayds to that level? Just thinking about the concentration required makes my eyes water…