Doom Hail

So there goes my every Wednesday Plan i really need to be more organised with these Blogs but any way on to the models. as i said last week this week is dealing with two thirds of the shooty goodness of the Dark Elf's starting with my unit of 14 crossbow men.

I have two units of 14 which almost always guarantees me 28 shots of armour piecing whick is awesome. Also i never equip them with shields, the only reason that I done this is because I have seen it done before and it looks awesome.

This on one effect that I really like in this army and its the woodgrane, I forgot to say in the last post that all the spear men spears have been painted with woodgrane. I know there are a lot of ways to do this but the easiest on I found that is quite effective is just a coat of scorched brown and then with quite watered down snakebite leather streak it in the direction that you want the woodgrane going and there you go.

Ahh the blot thrower a model that I am now so happy is out in fine cast as this was a right paint to put together but was also very easy to paint just wood, metal and some feathers.

The base for the bolt thrower is made of of the "make your own movement tray" with a cork tile on top with the slots for the crew cut out, simple but effected I think.

Just a better view of the bolt thrower.

The crew are very nice models themselves some of the best in the dark elf range in my opinion, I tried to paint these guys up as characters but after looking at these guy since posting them up I realise that I have improved on charter painting since doing these guy.

And last but not least my Favourite part of the paint job the cloaks. I tried to blend these and then add a edge highlight just the draw the eye in and I don't think it went to badly.

That's it for now, I only have one more unit of crossbow men to paint which im am half way through at the moment and an assassin to go then I have done a 1000 points so I am getting quite excited about that :).

As a quick couple of side notes I entered this 1000 point army in a small round robin stile tournament at my local Games Workshop and made it to the finals where I lost to a chaos army, but I am very pleased with how the army played considering i didn't lose a game till the final. And today me and a bunch of friends are getting together and doing a paint feast so a whole day of painting gaming and generally geeking out so I will try to get photos of it.

That's all for now till next time 

Wubbs