McClure's Wood Elf Blog

[Tom McClure]

Got 7 of the 8 treekin drilled, pinned, assembled, greenstuffed, pinned to GF9, corked, and pumiced over two late night bluetooth hobby sessions with Jim E. I lucked out big time as he had the treekin pose I needed for the 8th fig, and we promptly worked out a trade. I'm extremely happy that with creative pinning and greenstuff, all of the figs look different even though there are only 3 poses.

[warhamsterdave]

Not sure if you have seen these. I made them a while ago for my WE army. Was my first attemt and there are some things that I would change. I plan to make 3 stone kin and 3 vine kin to go with them.


Materials used;

hardboard for base (free)
dried twigs (free)
paper clips for pinning (free/recycled)
leftovers from dryad kit (free as i had them in bits box)
slate chips for bases (free from garden centre broken bits)
flock/scatter (cost=pennies)
miliput (cost=pennies)


Here are some pics of work in progress












Pic of base colours.





total cost so far =a few pence each and a bit of time and patience.



Well I,ve finished them upto a gaming standard. I will be doing some more in the near future. have made a few mistakes with these and there are some bits i will do diferent next time.

here are some pics of them ready for the table.












let me know what you think.


Dave.

[Tom McClure]

I think getting points for detailed conversion work while saving a horde of money is a mighty fine deal! Well done! I really like your colorful attention to the moss details.

I also think that to most observers a stick guy looks like a stick guy looks like a stick guy. I recall never being remotely interested in the treekin figs because they looked like a pile of sticks. I never was really interested in the variations of dryad figs either. Now that I have spent time with the figs, I appreciate them and like them a lot. However, in the scheme of fielding dryads and treekin, really any conversion will likely do and have the added benefit of being interesting!

[Tom McClure]

Got the loin cloths green stuffed on the glade riders and wild riders in addition to basing them with cork and pumice. Next, I need to finsih the command conversions and put capes and bows on the glade riders. Then primer! I can't wait to be assembed and finally start painting.

[hodge]

Looks fantastic! Keep it up homes!

[Tom McClure]

Got 4 of the glade riders converted with capes, bows, and the musician. Next, the standard bearer.

[steveb]

Nice work sir.

[geitmeise]

wow, looks promising!

[retroalias]

Nice to see the progress, looking forward to seeing what comes next.

[heychadwick]

I like the moss on the treekin. Really cool idea!

[gobbos]

Bunch of sissy elfish types. Glad to see you actually working on another army Tom and maybe even playing with it. Gonna get it done in two weeks?

[retroalias]

Where is the next update?

[Tom McClure]

Got the glade rider and wild rider standards converted. Used decorated elf swords for the standard tops. Note the glade rider's quiver goes under his hair.

[retroalias]

that looks great!

[Tom McClure]

I have gotten organized to assemble my dryads which are converted with daemonette bodies and to assemble my warhawks. With luck, I'll get these mostly done tonight.

I've realized I will only have 1 week to paint the entire army. So I will be using washes galore.