I didn't forget, honest...
OK, I forgot a little bit. All month to draft a post and I seem to do it just before the deadline every single month. C'est la vie.
Quite a productive month for me if I'm honest, didn't get 100% of what I wanted done, eh, done but did achieve a smidge more than the bare minimum.
First up this month was Groth the treeman. A lovely Trish Carden sculpt that's part of her Harrrowhyrst range, and sold by Footsore Miniatures. This was a gift from my gaming group for my birthday as part of a wee Birthday Club that we've been doing for the last four or five years. I'm slightly ashamed to say that this is the only one of the lovely gifts I've received that I've actually built and/or painted...
Anyway, pictures:
Sticking with TC; next up for the month was another six Dryads. I'm straying a bit from the list present in the 4th edition Army Book, which only contained five Dryads, as I'm now up to 16! Which, if I'm honest, is a combination of them being an easy win as far as painting goes (zenithal, drybrush, contrast paints, done) and also the fact that I'm a fan of 6th edition Warhams and the smallest legal unit is one of eight, and if I'm going to do one small unit I may as well do two 🤷♂️
Last for the month was five more archers (though they'll actually replace the figures I previously painted up as scouts in the army proper). These are, I think, Aly Morrison sculpts. Not ones I've ever really seen before (likely because everyone just seemed to use the monopose plastics for cost) and I must admit that I struggled with them a little. They are 99% complete, but I did skip the gems in this instance. I'll touch them up (and likely add some warpaint to cover for the fact that I flooded the eye sockets with so much wash I can't pick out their eyes), probably, before the final wrap-up post.
Now, those of you with eyes, may well have twigged that none of these are yet based. I will say that I'd not intended to leave it quite this long to do it, but I'm now £70 out of pocket on basing materials specifically for this project. Hopefully it doesn't look crap... but I do at least have a plan.
See you in the wrap-up. Peace.
Nice to see another one of Trish's new treemen, lovely job. And yes, basing seems expensive when you pay for it all at once, I lost counts of how many products ended up on my bases this year, but it's somewhere around 20... Looking forward to seeing your results soon :)
ReplyDeleteI really like what you have done with your colour scheme for the tree folk - the glowing green eyes really pop against the dark and lighter bark colours. I'm not sure I've seen those Aly Morrison archers sculpts painted up before either, but it's lovely to see them alongside Trish's sculpts. I also had a TC themed month so it's interesting to see how differently things turned out :)
ReplyDeleteFinished or not, the paintjob is still 🔥
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ReplyDeleteGreat work on the treeman ! I didn't know this range. Now I want to buy them all :D
ReplyDeleteThe treeman is fantastic! A bit more badass than the ones I've seen before fitting well with the style of your army
ReplyDeleteGroth looks stunning! Wonderful work!
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