Elves progressing nicely II

I don't seem to be able to post more than one picture in a single post, so here's another entry to show the progress so far on the high elves. As you can see, there are archers, shadow warriors, a bolt thrower, a lion chariot and a mage. Compare this with the previous post to see which models are being used in both armies.

Elves progressing nicely I

I am making good progress with the elves, despite suffering a bad cold which knocked me out for over a week! The dryads were really quick and easy to paint up - I will get together a tutorial when I paint the next regiment, probably next month. Here's a picture of the army to date, showing dryads, glade guard, wardancers and waywatchers/scouts. I will probably concentrate on the wood aspects of the army for the next few weeks, so more dryads, a branchwraith and a treeman to come.

Speed painted dryads (preview)

Here's a fairly bad photograph of a dryad, one of ten I painted in the last couple of days. They are so easy to paint up quickly and to a decent standard. I am hoping to construct and paint another ten in the coming week. I also have some wardancers that I think would be fairly easy to complete. If I can get twenty dryads and a dozen wardancers painted in the next few weeks, it will be a solid start to the Wood Elf only section of the elf army.

White Lion Chariot

This month's addition to the Elf army is a white lion chariot. I painted it fairly quickly, using a base coat and a glaze or wash for much of the work. It speeds up the army painting process and gives a decent finish in a relatively short time. I also made a start on a bolt thrower and crew at the same time, got about half way through then got distracted by the new skaven figures.

I will probably switch to some wood elf models for the next batch, a regiment of dryads should be easy enough to fit in.

Branchwraith

I am keen to start gaming with the Wood Elves part of the HighWood army, but I need a fair number of troops before I can start. So this week I have started to tackle the units of dryads. There will be 3 units of 10 each, lead into battle by this branchwraith. I have also assembled one of the units, just another 20 dryads to go. Once these are built, I can add them to the Elves already painted, plus a few proxies, to get in a first game with the tree-huggers.