Preparations for meeting Lizardmen & Warriors of Chaos - The Lonely Wardancer

And Saturday’s tournament VS Lizardmen and Warriors of Chaos, I have decided to use this army…

~ Lord ~

Level 4 Spellweaver (General , Lore of Life – Moonstone of the Hidden Ways, Wand of Wych Elm)

~ Heroes ~
Noble (Battle Standard Bearer - Light Armor, Asyendi's Bane, Hail of Doom Arrow)

Branchwraith (Cluster of Radiants)

~ Core ~
16 x Glade Guards (Musician)
10 x Glade Guards (Musician)
6 x Scouts (A small mobile bunker for my Spellweaver & Battle Standard Bearer)
10 x Dryads
9 x Dryads (Branchwraith join this unit)

~ Special ~

6 x Wardancers (Bladesinger)
8 x Tree Kins (Tree Kin Eldar)

~ Rare ~

1 x Treeman
1 x Treeman
1 x Great Eagle

As you can see I’m planning to field a unit of Wardancers. Yes I know they are horrible overpriced in 8^th edition. But I feel that in 2500 points game with a lot of dangerous units they might have a possibility of doing some interesting things. 

Well onto the Wardancers, I have some old models and I decided to paint one for fun. I watered down some colors for the first time with and interesting result. 

Branchwraith

Have a small friendly tournament coming up this Saturday, and even if there’s no paint requirement I always like to use painted models more than gray/black ones. So the coming days I will paint in a leisurely manner and try to get as many models done as possible. 

Characters are most important, so here is my Branchwraith.

At the moment when I painted this I had a raging fever so it was a strange experience, I took very much care not to use too much paint on any area, and because of this it took me about 2,5 hours to finish this simple model. Happy with the final result, the model looks natural and the colors blend nicely.

My army so far - Treehuggers & Friends

So here’s a picture of my painted Wood Elves army so far. It’s around 2300 points all and all. I have about 2000 points more sprayed black waiting for me to get time to paint it. What I have left is,

20 Glade Guards
16 Glade Riders
8 Dryads

11 Wardancers
3 Waywatchers
1 Mage on Elven Steed
1 Lord with Great Weapon

1 Waywatcher Lord

1 Wardancer Lord

1 Branchwraith

Now enjoy the picture of my forest living elves and their tree friends…

EBay gets me some nice models and saves me time!

Wanting to take the step to larger battles I decided to browse EBay to see what I could find. I came across a fellow member from Asrai.org selling some of his Wood Elves, so all credit for the painting of these models should go to Greenleaf.

First, a modified Treeman, it is nice to have a bit of variation.

Second, a unit of 10 Glade Guards, I do hate painting them so 10 I don’t have to paint are very welcomed.

Last, nut not least, 6 Tree Kin. They are the new models that I don’t care much for, but I will have a unit of 6 old Treemen as my first Tree Kin unit so once again the variation will be a nice addition to my army.

Will try to use these models as a reference when I’m getting to painting the bases of all my models, They look awesome and I can only imagine what the army would look like if I did that good of a work on the rest of them.