Alrighty then

Well the "daily update" thing has trailed off, and with good reason. Mondays and tuesdays I volunteer teaching kids to read, so those days I'm stupidly tired. I have gotten stuff done though, but I'm doing assembly line stuff. So at the moment, I've got 5 Glade Guard at a level 1 painting*.

I've also ordered a lord, who will arrive shortly(ish). I don't know what to do about the bronze.

I've been looking at Wood Elf tactica, specifically this article: http://asrai.org/leaf/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=24 . I don't know however if I want a Sethayla style army, not just as it's standard, but because it doesn't allow for creativity. It's advice is "this lord, this highborn, spellsinger scroll caddy, 10 GG, 10 GG, 5 WR/musician, 5 WR/musician, 10 WW, spend the rest on warhawks". Now I love Warhawks, but I intended to only have 1 unit of 3/4, not 4 units of 4/5. I also want wardancers, plenty of glade guard and dryads and a treeman. All these things are what got me to choose Wood Elves over a more competative army and even if I am selling the army I want to enjoy the ride, and may even build another on any profits I make.

One problem with me is painting horses. Don't ask me why, but painting horses just bores me, and I tend to give up easily. I'm not a fan of cavalrybased armies, but I know exactly what I want tactics-wise. The plans I have will change with 8th edition, but it remains the same: shot down one flank. Send the heavies for a frontal attack and fill any gaps with skirmishers, fast cav, hawks etc, and take all opportunities to shoot whilst the enemy is deciding which way to face.

Anyways, on with the update. No pictures today, sorry, as I said I haven't got anything new up to a good standard. Not that anyone's reading this yet, but when they do and look back, they'll see this and know. Yeah, I'm thinking ahead of myself mayhap.

Painted:
1 Glade Guard Standard
5 Glade Guard
4 Dryads
1 Wardancer
1 Waywatcher

Almost painted:
1 Rider
5 Glade Guard

I'm having annoyances with the bases as well. I've learned that chinchilla sand must be placed on watered down PVA otherwise it flakes off. I have to spend 10 minuites per models cleaning the base, which is slowing me considerably.

As I'm copying and pasting into warseer, 'cos I'm lazy, I'll let you request pictures of my Lizardmen, Vampires, BFSP or 40k Orks, or even my game room/desk/pet in the mean time. I've got almost 2,700 points of Vampires, at least 2,000 points fully painted and only 10 skeletons (mantic) aren't base coated.

До свиданиe

Mike

*Except for the skin, which is dark flesh colour. I work from basecoat upwards, and nearly always basecoat black and work up from dark colours, save for yellow. Level painting I use the standard 1,2,3,4,5 scale. 1 is basic colours, base not done or one colour, 2 is highlighted/shaded with 1 additional colour, 3 is 2 with big highlights around edges and in "sun spots" (areas the sun would hit) This level is also known as gamer level, 4 is detailed with eyes, teeth, straps etc and fully highlighted/shaded, one step above gamer level where it pleases the eyes up close not just at a distance. Level 5 is the 'Eavy Metal standard, blended perfectly and highlighted/shaded realistically. There is a level 6, Golden Daemon awards, but I've been painting no-where near long enough to master all techniques to that level.