OWAC VIII - Rank and File Month (II) - High Elves of Lothern
February
As promised last month, I've shifted to taking on some infantry this time around, making a start on the almost infinite* pile of identical spearmen that I have inflicted on myself. Once again, painting a Regiment of Renown gives me an "official" description to interpret:
"The uniform comprises a close fitting helmet, which is gilded. The tunic is padded and white, the belts and other decorative items are red. Spear shafts are blue, whilst most metal is either steel or silver."
It took me a while to get the colours mentioned in places that I liked them, which I finally acheived having waved three different versions at some of my painting pals until they gave opinions! In the end, I think it was the red tassles on the spears which made it work.
Obviously, there is a gap left here for the command group. Though I've made a start, I'll be leaving those for later, partly because I need to build a standard pole, and partly because I need to decide on the theme and heraldy before I do that. Plus "Leader Month" is compulsory and so I need to save something to put in it!
*it turns out there were only twenty of them, but it felt like more.
This isn't everything I've been working on. Progress continues on the cavalry because I want to make sure I can present at least one more unit of those in March. This means I have tried out two more colour schemes for white horses:
I'm also feeling confident enough with my progress that I've started prepping some extra units for this army. These are taken from the non-Regiment of Renown C09 range, so it would be really nice to be able to get them painted up this year. As previously highlighted, some of them are quite elaborate, so might take a lot of painting!
Scores for February: 260 points 20 models
20 x Guards (Light Armour, Shield, Spear) 260 points
Running Total: 531 points 26 models
NEXT TIME:
More Elves, obviously - probably a second unit of cavalry. Maybe some idea of what I'm going to put on all those blue shields?
I agree with you, the red tassles tie the colour scheme together nicely. I also like your white horses. It's not the easiest way to paint them but it looks good. The patch of skin colour around the muzzle is a nice touch.
ReplyDeleteThanks! The "naked" muzzle is step one of making your horse look a bit more real. Or maybe step two if you count "pick some vaguely realistic colours" as step one! And then step three is probably to change the tone on the underparts, but that's a lot of extra work for 24 horses which no-one is going to look at that closely...
DeleteFor a second there, I thought the shields were chrome! I imagine the eventual symbol will break up the blue nicely, although tbf I wouldn't know what to suggest. Maybe a check band running across the top, or a pair of crossed swords?
ReplyDeleteAny how - great work in the shorted month!
DeleteThanks! And good ideas! I think I've got my heraldic symbol decided but the addition of a band of some sort is interesting
DeleteImpressed that you've managed to collect so many city guard, well done
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