Mariano´s Wood Elves - Warrior kinbands (121 pts)

RANK & FILE II

Here I am on the second month and what can I said? Well... I HATE FEBRUARY. It´s really a very short month.

Every time I have worked on an army I usually try to practice with them on new techniques to improve my painting skills. So, as you can see, this month I haven been working on a kind of magic nmm....

What have I done this month...?

• 11 Warrior kinbands with light armour - 121 points
• 1 sprite - Free

 121 on the month.

336 for the total.

 

Well, apart of the work deloped on the nmm, the rest of them has follow the same work I have done on the previous warrior kinbands painted on the first month. So nothing much to say apart of I hope you like them...

 

 

 

 I really like how the nmm works, specially on 3 or 4 of them. Hopefully next month I'll be more productive and be closer to 15 than to 10 warriors. 

 Big question now is:

A - Continue with the Command group (My hype on the unit is high)

B - Follow the plan and start with the last 14 archers

So that´s all. Keep painting!

Mariano´s Wood Elves - Glade runners and some Warrior kinbands (215 pts)

Rank and File month #I

So here we are, first month is over and I have some wood elves to show... Great, I haven't fall on the first month!!!

Art by Victor Lozada

First of all, I have painted part of the army couple of years ago so the color scheme is clear. Anyway, I don't believe a wood elves army should have a closed color schemen so my only worry is to add as many diferents greens as possible.

What have I done this month...?

• 10 Glade runners - 160 points
• 5 Warrior kinbands with light armour - 55 points

Yes! 215 on the first month.

The Glade runners... Well, these guys have the responsability of patrolling Athel Loren so they deserved some love, I spent the first 15 days on them giving me the possibility to have some extra breaks on the rest of the month. It was a really pleasure to paint a full Marauder Wood Elves unit. Did some research on Internet but I couldn't find any other painted unit

Let's see some pics...

The complete unit

The Warrior kinbands. Being honest, I had no good feeling with how they would be once finished but once I finished them I liked how they turned out and I think I'm going to change my planning and continue with the rest of the unit for the next month. What do you think? 

I added the symbol of Argwylon on the shields, the only place in Athel Loren in which the old traditions remains and what's more tradicional than the classic Jess Goodwin Wood Elves warriors...

Not quite sure if I will be able to finish another 15 elves, only 28 days on February, but this is going to be my challenge for the next month.

Hope you enjoyed the post. That's all, friends!!

Skal's Skarloc's Perfect imperfections

April was about opening up more troop selections and adding a bit of variety to my over all force. First off I added 6 Lords Bowmen to increase my firepower and what better models to pick that Skarloc's archers. For me these guys are the very essence of Wood Elf archers. I would like to add Glam the Wardancer (I need to add him to my collection first) to the unit as well as the standard-bearer. I would like to make the unit 20 strong so that I can either run it as a large unit or two smaller units, each with a champion.

Next up on my painting list was 5 more Wardancers. What can I say, Wardancers are my favorite unit in Warhammer. They are the reason I collected Wood Elves back in the day. I love the image they envoke on the battlefield, that jumping, twirling, speed of blades flipping over the bow unit to hit the enemy that thought they were playing it safe picking on the bowmen. The two blade, white masked Elf is my all time favorite sculpt.

Last but not least is the beginnings of my Warrior Kinband. While not as nasty as Wardancers these guys can pack a punch and have some staying power in larger numbers. So this month I painted up my unit champion and four warriors. 

I am pretty happy with my painting progress this month. Painting up a total of 16 Wood Elves for the month is not bad.

My total for this month not including the points for my champions is:

6 Lords Bowmen 72 points

5 Wardancers 115 points

5 Warrior Kinband 55 points

April total: 242 points

Here's to cheating, stealing, fighting, & drinking. If you cheat, may you cheat death. If you steal, may you steal a woman's heart. If you fight, may you fight for a brother. And if you drink, may you drink with me.

Skal

  

Skal's Blank canvas (205pts)

Month 1 or the adventures of finding a cohesive army color!

This month was a challenge, not because of the prep time on models or the time involved in getting the basing basing done. The real work was finding the colors I needed to match the vision in my head.

I had this idea of a force use to violence and guerrilla tactics, attacking the enemy . Emerging from the woods at dusk to scare the ever living crap out of the force they were about to punish for getting close to their homelands. The dark woods at dusk was what I wanted for my vision.

With this in mind I started with a few miniatures from each unit to establish how I wanted to paint my force. Of course my first unit had to be Wardancers. After all when I think back to when I first laid my eyes on Wood Elves in the 80's I remember the Wardancers and that article in White Dwarf 111.

Wardancers for me were the guys that mothers told their children at night to scare them to sleep. I dove into my Vallejo Panzer Aces line of paints and started pulling out the grays and greens till I found the colors that I thought would work. My starting unit of 5 Wardancers worked out to 115 points.

I wanted to use warpaint to tie the entire force together so I went with the bluish eye bar as a thing to carry from unit to unit. I also read a lot of the older fluff to figure out what hair color was prominent inWood Elf culture and the color that I kept coming across was silver/white, so I used that as a tie as well for my entire force.

I wanted to make sure my Warrior Kin band stood out a bit more from the rest of the force so I did the main portion of them in a uniform green. This small group of 4 Warrior Kin came out to be 48 points.

Next up was my unit of Lords Bowmen. These guys are going to be a unit of roughly 10 bowmen with a level 5 hero when I am done with them. This group of 3 is 42 points.

Here is a shot of my effort for the month.

For the first month I completed:

5 Wardancers 115 pts

4 Spear Warrior Kin 48 pts

3 Lords Bowmen 42 pts

Total: 205 pts

Some of you may have noticed the lack of shields. At this point I am still trying to figure out 1) what type of shields I want to use and 2) what I want my army symbol is going to be. 

I have a few Ideas of what I want to paint next month and I guess we will find out next month what I finally decided on. Till then I will leave you with my hero Bob Ross. 

Skal