Found the camera

And here are some picture I took with it.

1) The second batch of the Genestealers


2) The Broodlord


3) The Elven Bard


4) The Wood Elves


Now lets see if I can get on with some painting.

Elves in progress

Just thought I'd share a quick pic of the Mantic Elves I'm working on. My camera has gone AWOL again so its just a phone pic.



Still working on designs and colours but I'm getting there.

If you go down to the woods today ...

If you go down to the woods today ... you'd get very wet and cold, the weather is rubbish.

Good news is that I have finished the last batch of LOTR Wood Elves. That's one of this years projects completed, actually I think that's the first project I have completed this year.

At some point I finished the elven bard for the Mrs too. I think it looks really nice but it didn't seem to impress her sadly.

I've made a start on the mantic elves, doing the really thrilling job of painting the brown on the bases. There are some jobs I really wish I could fast forward through and this really is one of them.

I really do need to take some more photos as I'm a bit behind on that front.

The hare and the tortoise

Okay so maybe more tortoise, less hare but I have been chipping away at things. The Mantic order arrived along with another free sample so I received 54 miniatures + a warmachine in the end. For those of you who like photos I've done some unboxing ones to show off what you get from mantic here.

I've not quite felt up to painting this week so I've spend my time clipping, trimming and glueing. I now have the whole elf warhost assembled and washed. Tonight I'm aiming to glue the sand on the bases so I can have a crack at spraying them over the weekend it the weather's not too bad (and the forecast is good).

If I manage the get a good rythm up with painting the elves and get them completed in a reasonable time then I intend to expand the army. With the addition of characters I reckon the warhost will stretch to about 1000 points. Mantic will be issuing cavalry and palace guard (all the two handed weapon options for the special slots in the army) in the next few months so next year I'd like to take the army right the way up to 2000 or 2250 points. Right now I'm trying to focus on getting as much painting done as possible without buying any more stuff.

Good weekend

Painting wise this has been a really good weekend not only did I not buy anything (!) I also managed to finish 8 more figures with 8 underway as well.

At the end of last week I had a chance to do some painting but I had mild PNKD symptoms at the time so didn't feel up to tackling the terminators. Instead I settled on the LOTR wood elves I bought earlier in the year and decided to block out the areas of colour that I could manage. Since then I've carried on with them and I now have 7 elves finished and the remaining 7 washed and ready for highlighting. I've also started painting and elven bard I bought for the Mrs and finished the broodlord too. I might get back on the right side of the pledge after all.

71 painted vs 104 purchased.

Now that was quick

Storming painting session tonight! I've now finished the remaining 11 'stealers. Just the terminators and the brood lord to go on the space hulk front.

63 painted vs 104 purchased.

Game on.

And the pledge news ...

So now I've got that lot painted I've got the pledge totals so far.

Checking the photos, I've got 52 miniatures painted (counting each bike as 2 minis). So far I've bought 14 wood elves, 35 minis from the space hulk boxed set and 2 free mantic elves. 52 vs 51 - yes!

Well actually its more of a nooooooooooooo. Yesterday I cracked and ordered a big box of those mantic elves so I have another 52 miniatures and a bolt thrower on the way. Looks like I'm going to have to get really busy with my paintbrush in the next three months if I'm to keep the pledge for this year.