Kober's Longbeards, and extra expeditionary force reinforcements (350pts)

Units:
Baggage Train/ Trophy cart. Points : Free
Long Beards Points : 350
3=man bolt-thrower Points 54. X3 Total Points: 162
2-man fire throwers Points 56 . X2 Total Points 112
Gyrocopter (50) with lvl 5 Hero (48) Points 98 X2 Total Points 196
Baggage Train - Anvil of Doom. Points Free

Mike's Waagh Grogguzzler (220pts)

"Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all". So sayeth Old Blue Eyes The challenge has come to it's end and I'm happy to say I managed to get something done this month between packing, moving, and it's inherent disruption. For the final month I was determined to get the leader of this motley crew of greenskins completed and hopefully something else. Well I at least got the mighty Grogguzzler painted up, he is one of my favorite orc models and I knew when this challenge started he would be the leader.

With the moving sadly I wasn't able to get the other units dug out and unboxed for the big epic army book picture at this time, but someday I hope to. This challenge has gotten me to paint more than I usually do in the same period, and seeing others great armies is a big inspiration at times. So often I get a good week of excited painting done before I get unmotivated or distracted, but thankfully this didn't happen during the challenge. Hopefully there will be a bit of a break before the next challenge so I can figure out how to carve out some painting space and dig everything out of the bins and boxes and storage units they ended up in. I am happy to have been part of this challenge with so many other great gamers and my thanks to the admins for doing this.

Dave's Dark Elves are Done! (176pts)

Finished! And what a journey it's been! April saw the last snow falls of the season here in the wintery north, which felt like a fitting end to the long trek that started way back in October. I can't say that I've enjoyed every moment of it—even with such a small army, there were countless stressful moments, tedious prep work, glueing and re-glueing broken figures... But now that I am at the end, I can honestly say that I sort of miss it already. Nevertheless, this competition has come with an excellent door prize—a fully painted, table-ready little Dark Elf army of my very own. I am already dreaming up how to expand this little force... Dark Elf Crossbowmen, Assassins, City Guard, Black Ark Corsairs, Witch Elves... they all sound like great directions to take the army!

Lopez' Dreadful Dark Elves!! (365pts)

Finally Finished

Well... we made it. What a trip! 

My final submission is four Helldrakes and my general, a level 20 Dark Elf Hero on Cold One. This isn't my recap post so i'll just stick to a brief write up on the unit and save the drama for the big reveal. Here they are!

Jeff Allen's Last entry, Chaos Knights (330 pts)

I was saving the Chaos Knights for last. Mainly because I couldn't find all the bits to the knights. I do have the newer plastic models as a back up, but wanted the older ones. So I painted the other parts of the army while continuing to search my basement hoard for the missing bits.

I finally broke down and bought a lot off ebay. It had the missing bits and plus some others goodies. So now I have at least 3 maybe 4 generations of Chaos Knights.

Please feel free to correct me, I know the combined wisdom of the OWAC is far greater than mine:
1st Generation - metal knight, metal horse.
2nd Generation - metal knight, plastic horse body, metal head
3rd Generation - plastic body of knight, metal arm, plastic horse
4th Generation - plastic knight, plastic horse.

So with all the pieces in order I finally painted the April entry.  I give you my 2nd generation Chaos Knights.

Ratwig' Final Entry: Varl's Guard Cataphracts (376pts)

My entry for April: Varl’s Guard led by Siq Viq.

6 Doomsteeds: 376 points total.

Equipment: Hand weapon, lance, crossbow, light armor, shield. Unit has standard and musician.

This is a unit of Dark Elf cataphracts to guard Varl, the army general.

Yosef's Brogio's bodyguard, 7 condeterri (179 points)

Ok so here we are at the end of the challenge, and the army is looking quite different to what i started with 6 months ago. Here is the bodyguard of borgio, 7 tilean condeterri, with a champion for 179 points. I was searching all week for those damn shields to make it a 193 points unit, or even using them as templars, but after the move they are not found anywhere. Also their original horses are not something I think fitted so much (completely unarmoured!) so I used later armored ones, they don't stay perfectly on those smaller horses, but for now it should be fine.

Personally I like a lot the look of those early citadel multi part knight, as they have a right amount of part (3 to be exact, body, arm and legs) compared to modern models with around 8-12... Only I think the lances being so thin I never managed to straighten those long lead lances, but at least they do not crack like so many of the middlehammer ones.

So that is it, still searching for all the parts of the army after the move, I'll need to unify a bit better the basing across the army (some had with all the base on brown and some had just the top part.) and repairing the chariot, i ll take next month a picture of the whole army.