Sunday, April 7, 2024

Byron's Hippy Wood Elves - Rank and File Month (308 points)

Hello Lamppost, 

Whatcha knowin'? Come to watch my flowers growin'? Well too bad. I dropped the ball this month and forgot to sculpt flowers onto my elves before I started painting them. My offering for this month is 7 Archers, a Musician, a Champion, and a mage on a unicorn. 


Below, are the 7 archers, musician, and Aeldryth Joywatcher, the level 5 champion. 


Next, Neanvala Meadowhame, level 5 mage on unicorn. I really like this old Grenadier unicorn (not as neat as the Marauder unicorn), but it has a much less noble/majestic vibe and more of a this-is-a-giant-moose-that-will-trample-over-you vibe.


So, it's a blue unicorn. A Blunicorn as Richard called it. It's an old grenadier unicorn that came with a thick layer of dark brown paint on it. The paint had to come off, but it really opened my mind to the possibility of a non-white unicorn. This seemed to align with the Elves being hippies. Initially, I tried painting the unicorn ochre. But that didn't contrast with the mage's garb. Whelp it had to be another color. So I settled on blue.


Maybe the horn should have been painted red to indicate "danger" like everything else in the red period.


Next month, wild card. I will be painting up a converted treeman, baggage train villager types, painting up the HeroQuest heroes which I didn't finish up in the last OWAC, and my tribute for the secret santa. 









10 comments:

  1. I admit I've been quite sceptical about this project (you may have noticed from my comments!) but I am truly in love with that Blunicorn and with it you've finally sold the army concept to me :)

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  2. Awesome as always, mate! The Blunicorn is really lovely

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    1. This poor sick animal - It needs some magic of friendship ;) - there is something wrong with that sculpt :( From the other side this is my personal favorite sculpt of WE mage and the painting is really cool. Merry band of archers is really awesome.

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  4. Great month. You are going to have a very vibrant force when you are done. Oh that Blunicorn, what a creature!

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  5. That blue works well! I'm not sure the ochre would have had the same impact.

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  6. You have really captured the rainbow with your unit much more effectively than I have with my deliberately rainbow themed wardancers - and the Blunicorn is fantastic!

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  7. Brilliant! The paintjob is so neat :)
    +1 love for the Blunicorn !

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  8. Quite impressive what you're managing to do with the craft paints. Awesome elves and love the unusual colour choice for that unicorn.

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