Wood Elves Snooze Through Autumn

25 10 2007

Crikey its nearly the end of October and I’ve painted bugger all elves.  Not quite true, I did manage to finish a Branchwraith, but thanks to work and holidays September was a right-off.  I have painted 4 Empire artillery pieces, 10 Swordsmen, most of 10 Militia and stated 25 halberdiers – but that doesn’t count at all.  I only have 2-3 units of elves to paint, 10 archers and/or 8 scouts and 6 Wild Riders.  I’ve picked up the Stag riding nutter of a character on e-bay but am unsure of his potential – who stomps around on a monster with light armour and no shield.  I might just paint him bright yellow with a bulls-eye on his chest.

In between xbox sessions, late nights at work and a new-found requirement to visit the gym more often (or buy larger trousers), I will endeavour to do better this month.  The figures are back out of the box and on my painting desk, if only I could remember where all my green and brown paint is………

…………………..oh look there’s my 10mm WW2 tanks, they’d be really quick to paint…………





The steam engine awakens

23 10 2007

So this month i did some more painting and although its probably in violtion of the rules at least i did some painting for my army lol and i painted a steam tank YAY. So only 15 flagellants and 20 swordsmen to go and my army is complete. well 2000pts of it…..





Welcome to the dark side

22 10 2007

Well a week late but my Dragon Ogres are now fully painted.  A momentous occasion as my army is now esily over a thousand pts and a big mile stone of my army is now been completed.

There is still alot to do but i feel happy for having done it anyhow. Right my next step is to help increase my numbers and as its been awhile since ive painted marauders I think its time to paint another unit before I treat myself to more evil goodies(A contridiction I know).  As im still getting used to doing shift work(ie my new job), to make my life easier ill arm these Marauders with double handed weapons.  With no shields to paint this should meanI get this unit painted in no time at all, it also means I get to save some more money as ive blown all my savings to date on those DragonOgres so I hope they are worth it.

Until next time happy painting