Wood Elf Update

Since I wanted to do something besides the standard dryad models, I read the army book entry for inspiration. It noted that dryads will often take female form to lure their victim into the forest before transforming into their war-aspect and ripping them limb from limb. I figure the daemonette body offers the beguiling beauty of these spirit-women.

The dryads must get done!  After tacking on some dryad parts to the daemonette bodies, I am pleased enough to commit the daemonette figs to some hardcore conversion.  I'll start by clipping off the claws and using the dremel tool to remove what doesn't clip easily.  I ordered a bunch of dryad bitz off ebay, and I've got them separated into arms, heads, back, and base bitz.  I'll greenstuff and glue the bodies into the gf9 bases and tack on the dryad bitz to make sure I like the feel of the units and have enough variation.  Then I'll carve the dryad bitz to fit to the daemonette bodies before drilling and pinning.  This will be followed by greenstuff work in the joints.

Warhammer Collection Update

I created a website to summarize my warhammer collection and the army lists I had in mind while collecting it.  I thoroughly enjoy making army lists, and I've put much thought into these after long discussions with friends.  My lists are not optimized army lists for winning tournaments.  Rather they are heavily based on theme while circling balance and providing a fun game.  I posted 13 out of the 40 army summaries, and have links to armybuilder, HTML, and TXT files.  I intend to delve into explaining the theme, army selection, and posting pics of the figs after I get the rest of the army lists posted.  I have a link to my warhammer collection webpage in the links section of this blog.

http://home.comcast.net/~tom.mcclure/warhammer/

Wood Elf Update Jan 10th

This weekend I greenstuffed the horses of the army into GF9 magnetic bases. I bent the legs of all the glade riders (5) and wild riders (7) to the horses. It almost took three hands to do this. I used many folds of paper towel to protect their legs from the needle-nose pliers, and I used many small bends to prevent the metal from cracking. I often had to reorient the feet as these had all been foot troops to start out with. I tried to get the bend at the knee that riders would have to hold on to the horse. I then pinned the riders to their horses so they wouldn't just crack off at some tourney during play. The wild rider standard bearer is a very old fig, and his hand fatigued off while I was drilling a hole in it for the standard. So I took the standard arm of the glade riders, cut off the arm, and pinned the hand and standard to his arm. I haven't decided what to do for a standard top, but I'm glad his hand broke now instead of after I got done painting a standard to it. There would be no chance of reattaching his hand in that case.

My wife also wanted the corner of our bedroom cleaned up. So I moved the desk to the basement, and now I have a great work area closer to all my stuff! I should have done that a long time ago.

Next is to add the capes, spears, and bows to the five glade riders. I will pin the sword that broke off of the middle one's right hand and give him a horn in his left hand. I carved the horn out of a glade rider hand to attach onto one of the wild riders as well. Gotta have musicians!

Wood Elf Update 20Dec09

So I am very pleased with this dremel bit. I was able to remove the draped cloths from between the wardancer legs with great ease, accurate and clean. Next is the arduous bending of legs to conform to the woodelf steeds. Digging it. (Painting in the two pics above is not my doing, and not what it is going to end up like.)

Wood Elf Update 6Dec09

Today I assembled the rest of the horses for the army. I then selected the wardancer figs for the two wardancer units, the glade riders, and the wild riders. I took care to have no duplicates in any unit, and I put the bigger hair models in the wild rider unit. Browsing through bits for musician instruments, I noticed the glade rider cloaks. I think the wardancers in the glade rider unit will be adorned with cloaks and spears on their backs and bows on their saddles. This will distinguish the glade riders from the wild riders. I've got enough wardancers left to be hawk riders. Although the hawk rider unit isn't part of my prime path list, I think wardancers riding hawks look fantastic. They will potentially be in my list for softer tournaments, and they'll carry the wardancer theme even further. I also have enough 2nd/3rd edition wardancers with light armour to be a unit of eternal guard if I need to get my core percentage up for tourneys like Core Competency.

Wood Elf Update 5Dec09

I have gotten a couple things accomplished, and I remain inspired to get pretty far with my time off this month. I've inked the flesh of the archers for the army, and I'm quite happy with it. Looking forward to using the emerick flesh technique on these elves. Gotta say,"I'm a fan." Started assembling the horses for the glade riders and wild riders. Can't wait to get the wardancer riders on them. I've decided to paint stuff on regular bases and move them to GF9 bases once I've worked out a basing plan. This will let me play while I paint without getting delayed by basing trials and decisions.

Wood Elf Painting

So, I have tons of the regiment of renown Skarloc's archers. I decided to save some I had with a hideous paint job as seen below by trying out a blue and grey basecoat.