Ratwig's Mercenary Samurai Lord on Kirin with Ninja (270 points)

For April's submission, I present Sekiguchi Toru, Mercenary Samurai Lord riding a Kirin with his trusty Ninja problem solver, Moto. They point out as follows:

• Level 20 Mercenary Samurai Lord (107) on Kirin (+75) with hand weapon (magic but no points included as required by OWAC rules), heavy armor (+1) and long bow (+3), total: 186 points.
• Ninja (80) with double handed weapon (+2), torinoko grenades (+1) and throwing stars (+1), total: 84 points.

The Kirin is a metal Reaper figure that originally had wings. I filled in the holes in its shoulders where the wings went with epoxy putty and added a brass rod horn to its forehead. I didn't really like the "rainbow pony" physical description in Warhammer Armies Bestiary, so I used the suggested color scheme I got from OWAC's Mr T. Rabbits - thanks! Lord Sekiguchi was modified by adding a hand holding a sword using brass wire drilled into the wrist where the original plastic spear went and epoxy putty for the armored gloved hand. The sword was constructed by cutting a piece of brass wire to length, pounding it flat for 2/3 of its length, filing to sword blade shape, adding a plastic hand guard and using epoxy putty for the pommel. The bow and arrows are from Dixon's miniatures Samurai range with the bow string made from copper wire.

Mr Moto, the Ninja, is a stock Citadel figure with no mods and painted in dark grey, brown and blue, but looks mostly clad in black once washed with Agrax Earth Shade.

 That's it for this month. Now for a medicinal Jack or six...

Ratwig Out!

Ratwig's Dark Elf OWAC III Force

Greetings! For this third iteration of OWAC, I will be painting Dark Elves (yes, again!). I will be adding more warriors, witchelves, crossbows, mercenary Samurai, and another giant scorpion, plus a new unit type for me, cold ones. The warrior unit will be made up using a 25 figure Mengil Manhides Regiment of Renown as they are all I have to represent warriors. This will get this army to its warrior minimum of 40 figs. I'm giving crossbows to the second unit of witchelves just to try out that option. The new crossbow unit will be used as skirmishers. The list is as follows:

1) 14 x Witchelves led by a Lvl 5 character, with extra hand weapon and crossbow: 275 points

2) 10 x Crossbows led by a Lvl 5 character, with shields: 180; 1 x Giant Scorpion: 45 = 225 points

3) 25 x Warriors led by a Lvl 10 and a Lvl 5 character: 415 points

4) 1 x Lvl 20 Mercenary Samurai Commander with heavy armor and longbow, mounted on a Kirin: 186; 12 x Mercenary Samurai with heavy armor, double handed weapons: 131 points = 317 points

5) 10 x Helldrake Cold One riders led by Lvl 20 and Lvl 10 characters: 754 points divided into two submissions

Total points: 1986

Let's see how my cunning plan survives contact with life...

This third OWAC will bring my total Dark Elf army project to around 5000 points.

There's figs to prep and some Jack to test, so I better get busy!

Ratwig out.