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.

Glade Guards Update

Haven’t posted in quite a while so I thought I would give a short update.

Family and life has taken most of the time lately so my painting time has been very limited. But I have managed to get a few spare moments in and basecoated another five of my Glade Guards.

Enjoy and feel free to comment!

Four Glade Guards Bascoated

Not the most exciting post I've made but anyways, painted a total of four Glade Guards today. Picked four that was different from each other to learn the areas on the models for future references.

I realized one thing, its sometimes difficult to know where the leather begins and ends. But in the end it doesn't really matter as long as the models looks good enough.

Anyways, remember that this is just the basecoat, there are still plenty more work to be done on them.

New Glade Guard - Basecoat

Since it was my birthday yesterday my time for painting was severely limited. Something I would not dream complaining about. But today I’ve had some spare time to start painting my Glade Guards. 

Must say that I enjoy painting my first Glade Guard from the new edition of models (and by new I mean after 5^th edition). Games Workshop seems to have changed the plastic in some way making the paint stick to the surface with greater ease. Also the details are clearer and more fun to paint.

So for my basecoat I’ve used:

Skin - Dwarf Flesh
Bow - Snakebite Leather
Leather - Dark Flesh
Clothes - Catachan Green
Cloak - Dark Angels Green
Arrows - Bleached Bone

Think I will do the basecoat of the rest of the 24 Glade Guards before moving on to details. Mostly because I want to be able to use them for gaming if I feel like it.

Assembling Glade Guards is a Pain!

I hate assembling miniatures, takes forever and its incredible boring. Anyways, spent about 4 hours today doing just that, piecing together 24 Glade Guards. 

I decided that I would most likely use them as either two units of Glade Guards, or one unit of Glade Guards and one of Scouts. Because of this I made.

• 2 Lord’s Bowmen
• 2 Musicians
• 1 Standard Bearer

Here’s a picture of the bastards, will see if I have some time to begin painting them tomorrow but its doubtful. 

So I Decided to Start off with Something Old…

Feeling confident that my skill as a painter was indeed better then when I was 12, I still was a bit worried about painting any of my new models. So looking over my old models I decided to paint some old Glade Guard models. I picked out 4 unpainted models and began to try to do a decent work.

This was the result of about 12 hours of painting,