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  1. Finished up a set of phoenix guard and related heroes / champions recently. 29 models in total, certainly the most I've ever painted in a single batch... some fatigue when I got to all the gems! The units span 3 generations (4ED / 6ED / 8ED WHFB) and are irregular sizes because I cribbed them together from eBay lots, but as display units I love all their sculpts (even the old ones)! Bonus: three heroes (Anointed, Caradryan and a generic hero with sword and shield) ready to lead the charge!
  2. Painted up a White Lion Chariot in the same classic color scheme as the White Lions in the previous post. Happy with how it came out! Several assorted thoughts: contrast made the manes incredibly easy (just diluted gryph charger grey) not super happy with the freehand on the banner -- I wish I had just done a simpler elvish rune -- but hey, you learn as you go this was my first time painting / assembling a vehicle. Overall it wasn't easier or harder than painting a character but all the subassemblies definitely made things more fiddly pinning is so important to get all the bits to stick together (the banner to the chariot, the lions to the milliput road, etc).
  3. ylu113

    White Lions

    Spent some time painting up both the old metal and the newer plastic incarnations of White Lions; very happy with the results! The metal ones actually have a certain charm, especially in the way the pelts drape around the body, even if the single-piece side profile poses get a bit old. The plastic kit was spectacular; I'm sad that it's now OOP. As usual, there are way too many gems -- I count 14 (!!) on just the champion alone, but I'm good at painting batch painting them at this point. Next up, the White Lion Chariot!
  4. Really nice job! Are you planning on doing anything with the Luminark of Hysh bits?
  5. I got sick of batch painting and decided to paint up all the mages I had found through eBay or miniswap. Magical spell effects are one of the most fun things to paint! And if you saw the first post (with all the Island of Blood models) and wondered where the archmage was, here's your answer...
  6. Had a good time painting up a set of Dragon Princes and Silver Helms. Because these were scavenged from eBay, you'll notice that the Silver Helms carry a hodgepodge of all types of different shields, including a couple with Dark Elf shapes! I actually don't mind this and like the visual variety.
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    First post!

    I've been in the hobby for just under two years now, so I have absolutely zero nostalgia for the old world. My first introduction to the classic High Elf range was actually when most of the range got squatted last July / August when the Cities of Sigmar book was announced. Reading through all the outrage, I realized I really liked the look of the range. That was the start of this journey to hunt down as many OOP High Elf kits and models as I could on eBay, FLGSes and other places... Some of you may have seen me share paintjobs on Reddit (under the same username); I figured a TGA blog is just as a good a place to chronicle a longer term project! One of the nice things about painting purely for display is that I don't need to bother with legal unit sizes or army lists. I just paint the models I enjoy in the quantities I enjoy! No spearmen in this army. First up - Island of Blood / Spire of Dawn
  8. I think the best analogy will be old fantasy slayers —> Fyreslayers (evolution of aesthetic, entirely new army) instead of Daughters of Khaine or Gloomspite Gitz (take 1-2 fantasy kits and expand / remake the rest into a new range).
  9. So unbelievably hyped about this! I fell in love with the old high elf range right when they got squatted in July, and since then crawling on eBay to find the old models has been a challenge. It’s interesting to me that the teaser video explicitly showed off the old high / dark elf concept art — they’re obviously not going to retread old territory but it’ll be interesting to see the evolution of the aesthetic.
  10. Hi everyone, long time lurker here! As someone who's relatively new to Warhammer, I like how in addition to the painting, speculating on every scrap of info from GW about future releases can be a second hobby in itself. People here -- especially on the Rumor Thread -- know a lot more than me about release cycles (e.g. that Feast of Bones was the first time a brand new faction was released in a battle box), so over the past week I built a barebones way for myself to easily filter and view chronologically all AoS news. www.aos-news.com None of this is new info (in fact, I compiled a lot of this by crawling through the Rumor Thread). but the tags and filters make it easier to answer some fun questions very quickly: How long did it take for the Infernal Enrapturess to go from battle box exclusive to individual release? (Answer: Dec 15 - Apr 27.) How many times did GW's release schedule leak in 2019 due to shipping manifests? (Answer: 3 times.) How many Made To Order runs came in 2018? (Answer: 5.) How many 2ed battletomes have been released for each Grand Alliance up to date? (Answer: 14 since Soul Wars.) How long did it take for the Ossiarch Bonereapers to go from first rumor engine to teaser to reveal and final release? (Answer: Apr 23 - Nov 3.) I also liked turning back time and looking at old release cycles I wasn't here for (e.g. Malign Portents or Kharadron Overlords) -- not just what eventually came out, but what we knew when and all the speculation that happened in between. Hope you find this as fun to scan as I do. If anybody finds any errors in the data and wants to help fill some of the gaps (especially 2015-2016) or volunteer for data entry going forward, let me know!
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