Jeff A's Dark Elves

Happy New Year to all,

We are kicking off 2019 with this awesome painting competition, and I'm looking forward to it. I will admit I struggled to finish OWAC1, but the fear of mean meme's posted about you is a great motivator. I imagine Iannick and band of cut throats will again be a great motivator again.

For the last challenge I painted a Chaos Army. I was really happy about how they came out. Unfortunately I don't get that much time to game, so they have yet to hit the table. Something I hope to correct soon.

For this year's challenge I'm going with the Dark Elves. Earlier in 2018, I stumbled across a really good deal of an  all metal DE army. I jumped on it and set it aside for this competition. I've been waiting months and months to get some paint on these guys.

Last year I painted each unit one at a time. But this year I've broken the army up into lots carefully balanced for what I call Painting Weight Count (yeah I might be slightly OCD). Basically the more parts a model has the more painting weight it has. IE a rider and mount would be 2, a spearmen would be 1, etc. The idea is to make sure each month is about even in the amount of work needed, so I don't get slammed one month and coast the next month.

Here's a little spreadsheet I worked up.

Ok Jeff enough nerdy crap. Lets see the figures.

Lot 1 

10 Xbow, a Bolt Thrower, an Assassin, and 1 Dark Rider.


Lot 2

10 Witch Elves, an Assassin, and the Cauldron of Blood.


Lot 3

10 Black Guard, an Assassin, a Sorcerer, and 1 Dark Rider.


Lot 4

10 Black Ark Corsairs, an Assassin, a Sorceress, and 1 Dark Rider


Lot 5

Dark Elf General, 5 Cold One Knights, and 2 Dark Riders.

All the figures have been prepped, with my ridiculous mounting method (did I mention the OCD?). I was hoping to have all the bases textured and all figures primed, but I was experimenting with basing schemes right up to the end.

Here are some nerd stats:
Point Cost - 1602
Figure Count - 59
Average points per month - 337
Average Model count per month - 13
Average Painting Weigh Count per month - 16

Lets get painting,

Jeff "Xin" Allen