These Wood Elves were based up and undercoated ten years ago*, and have sat like that ever since. A little bit of work each day for a week has seen them completed.
It's not an exciting army. At present I have 28AP of troops - 9 x Shooters (including the general) 2 x Lurkers and 2 x Behemoth (the Ents). Here they are:
The colour palette is fairly muted and does get lost a little against the bases but, as my wife says, that's kind of the point.
The shooters, led by the general.
The lurkers, making use of some of my cheap and cheerful sponge trees which I made back in 1989.
The elves are from Peter Pig. I'm not sure who made these Ents, which I confess look a lot better painted than they did as bare lead.
I'm sure that in a box somewhere I have odd figures which could be used to add some kind of hero or magician element to the army, and I'd like to add some beasts as well once I find something suitable that's not already been absorbed into my Palaeo Diet collection.
Anyway, my directionless painting strategy appears to be paying off. I think I've already painted more this year than I managed in the whole of last year.
*This is not a record. Long-time readers of the blog will remember this post in which I showcased an army that had taken me fourteen years to complete.
Excellent as ever. I have found that the 'do a little bit a day' approach does a sterling job of shifting bits of the lead/plastic/resin pile. Having a dedicated workspace where I can leave work in progress is a real enabler though.
ReplyDeleteI have a dedicated workspace where I can leave projects out. The problem is that it has a decade-worth of unfinished projects on it. Part of what I'm trying to do is clear some of those projects, even if it's one dab of paint a day :)
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