OWAC VIII - Wild Card Month - High Elves of Lothern
June
The last month of OWAC VIII and it's WILDCARD MONTH
Probably one of my least wild ones, if I'm honest. But this is what I've got for you:
More Heroes
Let's start off with slotta-based imposters - this is Brommedir from the Blood bath at Orks Rift scenario. Such a fancy fellow that I just had to include him here.
And this is the C33 Elf Hero, in his mounted and dismounted forms. So obviously a match to the C08 ranges and the Regiments of Renown that I'm using that I don't really understand how they ended up separate from them.
And then, I've also painted a few more of the C08 sculpts. I picked through my collection and used the *worst* examples of everything that I had doubles of - in other words, I still have a full set of
36 in decent condition stashed away - to add to this project.
So here we have another four:
In this set, the two handed sword blade is a replacement, the second guy is pretty much solid, the third guy barely has a face, and the spear has been repaired at least three times!
And here are three more:
These are actually in okay condition. I don't like the first guy much, even in this range he is very busy with clashing details. And then the fighter-mage on the right has a rather deformed face.
And here is the last four:
These are among my favourites. I hope it's pretty obvious that the second guy was missing his hand, and this is how he ended up wielding the enormous Coffee of Doom. Hmm, that cup seems familar from somewhere?
This takes us to 16 out of 36 sculpts included in this project in some form or another. Some of these minis, like the Cleric with the mace, I really like and if I could have found enough to make a unit I'd have been very happy. Some would only work as characters or unit leaders. Maybe the opportunity will come to add more to the army, but I think I'm done with these colours for now.
None of these have a set roll in the army as such, so I'm not going to bother working out points for them.
However, here are some "proper" additions.
Dragons
Would you believe that I had no plans to include a dragon in this army? No Dragons? Me?
But honestly I did not.
It was only when I paused the project briefly to paint a dragon as a gift / favour for a friend that I realised that I really wanted to paint more of them. So I had a dig around and came up with this:
So this is the Marauder Miniatures MBF17 High Elf Dragonlord *Dragon*, for which I don't have the proper rider, with a modified Elwing's rider on his back. I built the saddle to make the two meet up as best as I could.
The Dragon, Kargos, is traditionally a big red firebreathing type, but to fit better with this army I borrowed the colours from the later Prince Imrik box art. I think he looks quite smart.
I also wanted to include some sort of "sea dragon". I considered a number of serpentine types, but they tend to be sculpted as in the sea, and I wanted something that might have travelled inland with the army - far enough to have joined up with their Wood Elf cousins. And I eventually turned up this little guy from one of my boxes:
This is the Ral Partha Sea Dragon, code 01-151 (I think you can still get it from Ironwind Minis if you want one). I like his fishy look, but those wings suggest he's not restricted to the seaside. The paint scheme is inspired by the Blue Marlin and uses all of the blues which appear in the army, which is a nice way to tie things together, I thought.
So that is that. OWAC VIII done! Apart from a final July post where I might mull on what I've done and try to get a full army picture for you. Thanks for reading!
Scores for June: 620 points 16 models
1 x Elven Dragonkin (Lance, Shield, Bow) 320 points
1 x Dragon (Level 1, Wings) 300 points
Running Total: 3304 points 96 models
Oh I do like those old C series Elves, nicely done
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