Progress with Kit-Bashing

My skills in molding and customizing models are not even what I'd call developing. I did a little minor kit bashing for my elves, though.

On the right is an elf spearman. On the left is a spearman I made using the body and legs from some old dark elves I had left over from an attempt at a DE warband for Mordheim. Some extra spearman bits and some trimming of the shoulder armor, and he looks the part.

The kneeling legs, bow, and right arm are extras from the HE archers box. The head is an extra from the spearmen set, and the body is another DE torso.

This guy was originally intended for a D&D campaign, but I was able to add a HE banner and put a sword hilt on the scabbard to make up for the one that went with the hand that was holding it to make room for the banner. Hopefully I'll have a fairly unique BSB.

Getting closer...

Two of the three small dragons and the general are now paint free. I debated using the smaller dragons to instead pull the chariot instead of lions, but the I remembered why I have to keep the lions on the chariot. The right hand lion, the one that is pawing at something, must be painted orange to commemorate Scratchy, my wife's late orang cat she got in grad school. 

So the only minis still incomplete are the conversions on the bsb and final assembly of the chariot.

Slow beginnings

So the unpacking and gluing has begun. I've got the army about 60% assembled, the smaller dragons and the general are soaking in simple green. (Old minis used for D&D over the years.) The current question is the appropriate role for the two bigger dragons. Do I use the one with the 11"-12" wingspan for the general's ride and the 7"-8" wingspan for the phoenix or the other way around? Either will require some green stuff to make a saddle and all.

Here there be dragons?

So in building my HE list, I was looking at getting a few great eagles and a phoenix. However, while the models are cool, I'm cheap. I also already have a large reaper dragon, a medium-plus reaper dragon, and three small reaper dragons. I guess I'm seeing the beginnings of a theme. I'm  debating putting a prince on a dragon as well. but can't decide to put him on the really big one or the mid-sized one and use the other in place of the Phoenix. Using either as a mount will require some green stuff for a saddle, at least. I'll also need to strip and repaint the large and three smalls, but I was planning on doing that anyway.

New Army False Start

With having to cancel out of LWGT and giving up on 40K for the time, there is no reason to delay starting the new fantasy army. Was going to start assembling my high elves today, but all of my glue has dried up. Then suddenly I had things I had to do and never got out for more glue.

For the time being I'm up in the air about a paint scheme. I like the blue and white, but I see so much of it. I was considering red until I saw a really nice red one, and now I don't want to do red. Not feeling it with yellow, orange, green, or purple. Now I'm considering doing a B&W/greyscale army with the only color being in the heraldry. I'm a long way from paint at this point, so it's entirely likely that I'll change my mind a few times.

Either way, this will be the first army I've built using non-GW models, even though it won't be many.

Best Wife in the World!

So I need to get off my dead ass and finish repainting my marines (Black Templars specifically). My wife gave me a High Elves battalion box, some smaller boxes and an Alien Worlds punch card that is two punches from being complete.

 I plan to have it on the table by summer so I can get used to playing before Bayou Battles.

Yes, I am indeed a fortunate man.

Back to the Painting Table...

The second job at the home brew store didn't work out. It was fun and all, but the three days a week turned into 5-6 and started interfering with my day job. Hone-do projects and other stuff then took over, and today was the first day I could get back to painting.

I didn't get to paint, though. What I did do was pull out the models I plan on using for my BT army, make sure I have all the ones I want to use, and then take inventory on how to paint them. Originally I was just going to touch them up, but then decided to strip them and start over. They were my first army ever right before the original BT rules cam out in the Armageddon Codex. I was pretty proud of the paint at the time, but not so much anymore.

So, anyway, I'll be posting pictures of units as I get them done.