OWAC VII - Now you see me, now you're dead (3rd Rank & File Month)

 

Surprising an elf army is nigh impossible. Their territories are patrolled by some of the skilled and silent agents.

The elf seekers or the ranks of the nagarythean Shadow Warriors are the reason almost no enemy can escape the elf inteligence. They search for enemy patrols or columns, locate stashes, or inform of enemy repositioning. But most importantly, they're deadly sharpshooters and warriors eager to strike behind enemy lines.

During the crisis of the fall of Tor Nimtala, regiments of seekers moved behind the lines of the besieging orcs and ratment hordes and killed hundreds of vital reinforcements, supplies. But more importantly for the cohesion of the chaotic hordes, they destroyed or robbed the loot gained from the burnt villages, expanding an aura of mistrust between the attackers.

 They also coordinated with the few defenders of the villages. Creating chokepoints or false routes to overcome the defenders, the ratmen fall under the sudden strike of arrows coming from units of seekers supported by strategically placed bolt throwers.

March suddenly become the trap month, and I still cannot comprehend why. I intended to paint a unit of shadow warriors/seekers, restoring the old plastic elf archers, and then moving to the bolt thrower and some extras that I want to finally include (I have a spare elf warrior militia that I said I'd love to finish converting and panting).

Everything planned failed and I got enough time to paint the bare minimum. Well, not exactly, a unit of seekers plus the bolt thrower and crew.

For the unit, I opted for more muted and greenish or shadow colours that they may use as camouflage. The colours of the clothes are not as bright as other line units. 

I ended including some patterns in the least muted/more contrasting colour as with other clothes of the army, and in the cloaks, as if they were made from some fine cloth. Also, I glazed the cloaks so the pattern dissapear in the shadows, to boost the effect of the embroided fine clothes rather than a printed pattern like in the other fabrics.

 

 

The bolt thrower is supposedly made from some fine reddish wood, so I used the same technique as in the fabric of the cloaks. First, I made the pattern. then, I glazed the wood with a mix of AK laser magenta and hull red.

That's a total of

10x High elf shadow warriors - 110 points

1x High elf repeater bolt thrower - 50 points

Another month, 13 more miniatures finished. Next month I want to paint the swordmasters and the extras that does not fit with the baggage train.

Until then,

Adrian's out.

OWAC VII - No Step Back (2nd Rank n File month)

 

Stoic and resolute, none can surpass easily an elf spear phalanx, making the backbone of the elven hosts.

OWAC VII - Sharpshooters! (1st Rank n File month)

 

The high elves are proud of their archery skills since their rise as an empire. 

The Old World Army Challenge's 7th edition has just begun! - high elves edition

 

 

 

It's that time of the year again. 

Deadcember meets Blood Bowl - My V NAF World Cup team

 

This year I decided to play my very first Blood Bowl competition, so I needed a grand entrance. Meet La Maisontaal Manhunters, the shambling undead team I painted for the tournament.

The Shambling Undead is one of my favourite teams, not my first one I have to say. But from the oldhammer teams, this one attracted me a lot.

After the "special" VI edition of the Old World Army Challenge with lots of oldhammer blood bowl teams, I couldn't resist. I got a team of the old Gary Morley's gems and prepared it as my own world cup team.

However, the only problem I see with the old team is the lack of different sculpts, so I decided to convert several players to met the La Maisontaal theme.

The mummies go as they come. They're simply perfect in the original sculpts. It is the first time I made a complete nmm with a fantasy squad or regiment, so I mixed different kinds of metal to give them a proper varied look.

The wight blitzers have they're own custom sculpt but I chaged a bit one of them to reflect the mighty Mikeal Jacksen, the wight hero from the old lichemaster series.

It also help to differentiate from the tackle and the mighty blow (obviously the good Mikeal).

 For the ghouls I sculpted some iron knuckles and reposed a little bit the hands. With the different ghoulish skin colours and the modifications they have now a slightly varied looks and also help to reflect the two blocks and the strip ball abilities from the rooster.

The fodder got also some love, as any other member from the team. Some poor villagers from Frugelhofen made the bulk of the linemen, so I sculpted a beard on one of the zombies and give him the proper greasy and rotten look. Does he also count for a movember entry?

The other one is the linemen with extended clothes to look as one of the poor La Maisontaal monks, who was transferred in the winter market from the local Blood Bowl team to ours after the unlucky encounter with the forces of Heinrich Kemmler.

Lastly, I do not have a spare Gary's zombie to convert for a new linemen, and I do not want either to resculpt one of the repeated zombie linemen. So I decided to paint a skeleton and also give my roster a little and nasty trick.

Enters the fouling zombie and a cheerleader to make for a Fan Factor token.

That's it, the entire Blood Bowl team. 

Next entry before the VII OWAC starts, the world cup recap and the achievements.

Until then, Adrian's out.