Wood Elves of Lothlorien and Rivendell

It’s been a while since the last post (almost a month in fact!), the holiday period is definitely a busy time and it took me a while to finish up this latest project: a 500 point wood elf army for the Middle-Earth Strategy Battle Game.

The army is lead by Galadriel on the Lothlorien side and Gildor for the Rivendell contingent. My goal was to cram as many elf bodies in the list as I could while also having access to relatively powerful characters.

Galadriel I’d painted many years ago, so she got a touch up and a rebasing to match the others. Gildor on the other hand is new for this army (one of the rare metal models GW still sells!).

The wood elf plastics are definitely showing their age, as single piece plastics from that time the detail is rather soft, and the single piece restriction leads to some significant filled in undercuts etc. I think they look good at the tabletop level though, if not under close scrutiny, and painted them appropriately (i.e. to tabletop rather than anything else standard).

I tried to stick to the rather desaturated colours you see on the wood elves in the movies while still keeping some variety of colours. The military colours I’ve been collecting for my WW2 models have definitely come in useful here! As you can see most of the areas of the models are 3 stages to keep things nice and quick.

I had some fun with the bases, I wanted to try something else than my previous attempts at forest bases and I really like the outcome, especially when considering how simple this was to do. I took some dry leaves I had ready for basing purposes, and broke them up using a spice grinder. I took the results and mixed in some Woodland Scenics foam flocks and ended up with what you can see in the photo below. Then simply coated the bases in glue and dunked them into the pot of my forest mix. I did seal them in watered down PVA to fix everything properly as an extra precaution. Nice and quick!

I painted these for a tournament that is coming up in February, so for once I have some time to practice games ahead of time! We’ll see how much practice actually happens though.

2021 Recap

2021 marked the first full calendar year for the blog (I started it in September 2020), and coincided with one of my most productive years ever when it comes to model painting, with 326 models finished for the year! It’s the first time I’ve documented a full year’s work so I can’t be sure, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t the most models I’ve ever painted in 12 months.

Here’s to another hobby charged year, and I hope you all have a great 2022!