More Elf Hearthguard

One of my favourite scenes

The Lords of the Wild is one of the few warbands in SAGA that allow Bow-Armed Hearthguard.

   

 

These plastic figures were very nice to paint

 

Leader figures for the Warband. The lieutenant (Ranger) can be armed with a bow or sword, to the far left is the sword version and just to his right is the bow armed version. In the centre is the Huntsman, a legendary unit, I need to find a couple of animal companions for him. Second from the right is the warlord for the unit and the odd figure on the right is my Sorcerer. All from the GW LotR line, from left to right: Haldir, a High Elf Archer, Gil-galad, Elrond and Radagast.

I painted Gil-galad and Radagast, while my son Simon painted the rest about 15 years ago.

A Titan Monster for the Warband

again painted by my son some years ago.

I am pretty sure that I can now field a 8 point AoM Lords of the Wild warband, but I do have plans to give myself some options, a little tough now as a lot of the larger figure manufacturers are not delivering orders, including Games Workshop. No reason not to put in an order to your local hobby shop though to sort them through these lean times.

Eleven Hearthguard-AHPCX # 10

 

Still plugging away at the painting. One of my goals during the challenge was to complete a Lords of the Wild warband using elves from my LOTR collection for SAGA AoM. Next up are 2 Hearthguard units. These were half painted by my son many years ago, they were airbrushed with Tamiya flat black and re-painted and based to match the the current war band. I thought about stripping the metal casts but decided against it, so they are a little less defined than the plastic sculpts which just had been previously primed. I am happy enough with them. I have 11 more figures to go but I somehow another think that this will not get done for the Challenge.

 

 

 

Wood Elf Warriors

 

I am trying to clear the painting table of half-finished figures in preparation for the Xth Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge. Thankfully this is the last of the figures, so I am all set to start painting on the 21st of December. 

As previously discussed, I am putting my large LotR Games Workshop collection (which had never seen the table) to work in the SAGA Age of Magic universe. My goblins have already seen the table as a Masters of the Underearth warband. I am putting together a Lords of the Wild warband using my LotR Elves.

Here is another warrior unit this time armed with swords.

 

 

They are certainly weaker in cast than the original iteration of figures when Games Workshop first put out their LotR line. But they will do for SAGA. Some of the original figures will hopefully re-appear in the AHPC as I am repainting the orginal figures.

I was having some problems thinking of creatures for this warband but I think I have it sorted now.

Adventures with Contrast Paints

I bought 8-10 of these paints a couple of months ago and thought I would give them a go on some Games Workshop figures. I am building up an Elven based army for SAGA Age of Magic. These figures are from the plastic Warior Wood Elves box.

Contrast paints only, generally ok, but really to much pooling especially with the purple, the flesh colour did not work that well eiher, the browns are nice.

 

After they have been repainted with Citadel coulours and then washes.

 

So here is how they look based and matt varnished.

 

 

I have a sense that these figures were a poor choice to try out these paints on, they are nice enough  but the casts are a little weak. I suspect, I will not be buying more.