Paul M's High Elf Host - Rank and File Month Four - Archers of Lothern

As promised April saw a return to the stormy island city of Lothern for my fourth and final rank and file month, and also my final unit of archers.

Last year I decided to make my own proxy Lothern Seaguard unit from plastic monopose archers and spearmen, some brass rod, and lots and lots of milliput for press moulded shields. I must confess that by the end of the unit build I hated them and didn't want to look at them, but the colour scheme I chose really livened them up and I ended up painting a mage in the same colours... then two bolt throwers... then a Hero on a Griffon...

I had a third and final unit of 22 archers undercoated and waiting for OWAC VI so it made sense for me to add to this contingent within my grand host and give myself a chance to revisit the colour scheme with its bright turquoise (VMC Sea Green and Blue-Green) and mixed blue-green armour (just army painter blue tone and green tone applied carefully in patches and stripes over Citadel Leadbelcher)

The command figures are a bit of a mix as you can see. The musician is the old metal Lothern Seaguard command. I kept back the one bow and quiver I had with this design for use in this unit as it felt more 'archery' to me. However I should really have waited and taken a press mould of it so I could use a copy for the leader who instead makes do wit ha left over press moulded bow and quiver from last year.  The leader is another repurposed bolt thrower crewman, who I think make good archer unit leaders if you are running low on actual champions...

Or you have damaged champions, as in this case (missing sword), who then lend themselves to being converted into standard bearers. The standard is made from a bit of brass rod and a plastic spiky gem bit from the plastic HE mage kit combined with foil from a wine bottle for the banner. 

As you can see here while the style of the banner is more in keeping with the Lothern Seaguard from last year, the runes on the banner are the same as for the other two 'citizen levy' archer units in my army; Minaith meaning: "Skill in arms, spirituality, the Lost Way" and Senlui meaning: "Swiftness, accuracy"

Total for the month:

22 High Elf Archers (including Standard and Musician) - 240pts

And here they are alongside the rest of the Lothern contingent from OVAC V:

I also managed a very quick brush up of two Yvresse themed Bolt Throwers to better match the recently refurbished archers from February this year.

That's it for April. May should be leader month, but I basically have everything left in my HE collection on my painting table right now so in the true traditions of the OWAC it could still be a wild card and a rush to the finish line with the leaders in June.

Onwards to another month of OWACing! You know you'll miss it once it's gone!