richyp Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Hi everyone, this is my first post here (long time reader though). A couple of weeks ago a few of us decided to start a Path to Glory campaign, having not played a game of either WHFB, AoS or 40k in about 10 years I was quite excited to get cracking on my warband (I have still been painting a lot of during those 10 years though). Initially we were going to play a game of Skirmish using the updated rules from January's White Dwarf, which being a bit more flexible on what you could take meant I went to town on an Aelf/Tree soup of 5 Dryads, a Spellweaver (converted Tidecaster aka the Treecaster) and 3 each of Sisters of the Watch, and Shadow Warriors. This was the status as of Tuesday: That was 250 renown, but then we decided to go Path to Glory which complicated things with the Allegiance choices. First off I needed to pad out the Dryads to a legal unit of 10: As there are no Path to Glory tables for Wanderers I modified the Sylvaneth one and added illegal 5 person units of Shadow Warriors and Sisters of the Watch (later these will be merged into a 10 strong unit of Sisters), so I assembled up 2 more each of the those, painted them and added them to the force: With the Spellweaver having 3 unit choices/rolls on the follower table that's the first game's models sorted, but I was really getting into painting these guys this week and wanted to paint some more. Cue the Kurnoth Hunters: Painted in the same scheme as the Dryads and with the same coloured (thanks Aethermatic blue) weapons as the Aelves I think these guys fit in well with their friends: And today I decided to paint up the Treelord from the Start Collecting box in the same scheme (he wasn't finished when I took the group shot above) but here he is in all his snowy happiness: All these guys were painted in the last 10 days using mostly contrast paints with a few highlights (I did a write up on the painting method and some background stuff here: https://www.goonhammer.com/tale-of-3-warlords-campaign-for-the-northern-wastes-age-of-sigmar/ ). Next week I'm looking at painting up some Eternal Guard and a Waywatcher (converted from one of the Eternal Guard and spares from the Sisters box, as I decided to start the army days before GW pulled the Waywatcher from the store), just waiting on an OOP metal Eternal Guard from ebay to arrive to replace the plastic one I converted to the Waywatcher. 15 1 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThalmorRepresentative Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Glorious glade, richyp! I love the colors used across your army, especially the lamentiri glow effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted August 11, 2019 Author Share Posted August 11, 2019 (edited) Took a picture of the full gang earlier, according to the Warscroll Builder this is 900pts on the nose (Spirit of Durthu being a good 3rd of that). I'm about 1/2 way through the first half of the Eternal Guard and the Waywatcher kitbash so they should be done tomorrow hopefully, and then the bits for the 2nd half will arrive later in the week. Edited August 11, 2019 by richyp 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Incredible results with Contrast, thanks for the tutorial! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnied3 Posted August 14, 2019 Share Posted August 14, 2019 Oh man you nailed this! Love the treecaster conversion! I struggled with my weapons for the Treelord and hunters. Love what you did here - definitely checking out the tutorial! Thanks for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted August 14, 2019 Author Share Posted August 14, 2019 Thanks guys. I did the first 5 Eternal Guard, and just bought another Start Collecting Sylvaneth box to max out the Dryads and to add Treelord to join Durthu I converted up a Waywatcher from one of them too, as I decided to start this army the same week GW pulled some of the the line 🤦♂️ I've just got an older metal one from ebay to make up for the pilfered parts. There's more tutorials on the site too, it's mostly 40k stuff but I did do a piece on simple OSL too, the painting articles are here https://www.goonhammer.com/category/painting/ if anyone else want's to check them out. 7 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 Did another 10 Dryads today, got 10 more to do for that unit, but that's a job for next week along with probably the other 5 Eternal Guard and a Treelord. Here they all are so far: 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted August 21, 2019 Author Share Posted August 21, 2019 Added a Branchwych to the gang, this was a very quick speed paint job so I could say that I actually finished on of the Start Collecting boxes. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted August 21, 2019 Author Share Posted August 21, 2019 I wrote up a more in depth step by step on the quick OSL techniques I used to make the blue/teal colours look like they're glowing here: https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-paint-everything-quick-and-easy-osl-the-20-min-methods/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AthelLoren Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Amazing! I love your color scheme; It really ties all of the diverse models together. I never knew that shadow warriors could look so great in Asrai colors! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinwolf Posted August 22, 2019 Share Posted August 22, 2019 These look amazing. Love to see some love for the Wanderers, thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted August 29, 2019 Author Share Posted August 29, 2019 I decided to add a Knight-Azyros from the Stormcast range to give a nice +1 to hit Aura to the gunline (the auro is for all friendly units and not limited to Stormcast) she'll help boost the Sisters of the Watch and Kurnoth Hunters. Problem is a Knight-Azyros would look out of place so I kitbashed a suitably angry Winterleaf alternative: The Stormcast head will be the glowing lantern bit, figured I'd have some link back to the actual model in some way 5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Shift Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Are the heads on your archers all from the stock kit? It's all looking great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted October 6, 2019 Author Share Posted October 6, 2019 10 hours ago, Red_Shift said: Are the heads on your archers all from the stock kit? It's all looking great. Thanks. The heads on the Sisters of the Watch are the standard ones, on the Shadow Warriors one is from the Dark Elf Blood Bowl team and another is an old Eldar Guardian head. The Eternal Guard are just using the Rangers hooded heads from the alternative build option (Wildwood Rangers). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted December 31, 2019 Author Share Posted December 31, 2019 Not painted much Sigmar stuff recently but I've got a Skirmish game coming up on Friday so I decided to add a few more guys to the army in the guise of some Tree-Revenants, here's the unit: They were really quick to do with Contrast paints, the brown parts are Wyldwood thinned over Wraithbone, the blue parts are Aehtermatic blue. Brown washed with Athoninan Camoshade and highlighted with Kreig Khaki, and the blue highlighted with VMC white. All in about 3hrs painting for all 5 guys. Here's the Skirmish force: You can spy some Idoneth in the background because that's my next big project (Alliance of Wood and Sea). I bought Yithari's Guardians today too, so they'll probably get some paint at the weekend. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 Bailed on Ythari's Guardians, as I went to Warhammer World on Friday where I played a game with the above Skirmish war band and grabbed some more bits. An Awakened Wyldwood, some more Kurnoth Hunters and a Branchwraith. She's painted more inverted than normally seen (the blue / green bits are normally wooden coloured). I'll be working on the first Awakened Wyldwood, the Hunters and some of the 2nd Start Collecting box over the next couple of weeks. The goal is to phase out the non-Sylvaneth units and make it a pure Winterleaf army. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Painted up the first Awakened Wyldwood this morning 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted January 7, 2020 Author Share Posted January 7, 2020 Also painted a Tree Lord Ancient today to be able to summon the Awakened Wyldwood from earlier: with his other large buddy 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThalmorRepresentative Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 This army is so glorious! I rather like that you've kept the scheme colors relatively simple. You're far more disciplined than I :D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnied3 Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 How did you do the treelord bases - the water effect is class! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 On 1/8/2020 at 3:14 AM, ThalmorRepresentative said: This army is so glorious! I rather like that you've kept the scheme colors relatively simple. You're far more disciplined than I :D. Thank you, having a really quick scheme makes the next 10 dryads in the queue a lot more palatable. 10 hours ago, Arnied3 said: How did you do the treelord bases - the water effect is class! Cheers, its just paint and varnish, What I did was paint the whole base in Wyldwood, then where I wanted water I added a very watery layer of Incubi Darkness and dotted in some green in various patches so it'd bleed into the watery incubi for some variation. Once that's dried I brushed 'Ard Coat over it to give it the wet look. I wrote an article on Goonhammer where I used the same process for slime bases on my Nurgle guys: https://www.goonhammer.com/how-to-base-everything-pools-of-slime/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 In model painting news, I've painted up 3 more Kurnoth Hunters today bringing the total number of Bow guys to 6 And a group shot They're a little more blue here, the actual colours are as above. Need to do 10 more dryads, 6 more Kurnoth (Swords this time) and 1 more Awakened Wyldwood (3 more regular trees) and I've got my 2000pt list ready to take to battle. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted January 9, 2020 Share Posted January 9, 2020 I counted 5 trees in the back row first time round...! 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richyp Posted January 9, 2020 Author Share Posted January 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, Tommy said: I counted 5 trees in the back row first time round...! 😄 +1 to save then, thanks camouflage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Posted January 10, 2020 Share Posted January 10, 2020 (edited) On 1/7/2020 at 1:19 PM, richyp said: Painted up the first Awakened Wyldwood this morning How? 😂 this is amazing. The colours Re so real. That’s a winter wonderland and no mistake. Edited January 10, 2020 by Kramer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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