Armada and Dwarfs

 I said I was more excited about this post, and I am! Because I have painted several dwarf ships for Armada:

The dwarf ships are fairly simple and fun to paint, which is of course a bonus for someone like me, who is not the best at painting. These ones I mainly painted in metallic colors, bronze, silver and copper, with purple for a bit of variety. Purple doesn't seem to be a color people associate with dwarfs, but perhaps it should be. I mean, I like it.

I've managed to get a hold of the rules, and a few Empire of Dust ships too, so I'm hoping to try out a little game soon.

Spear Skeletons (Skelespears?)

 Here's the next unit, ready to do their duty as skeletons holdin' spears.

Not much exciting to say about these guys, the sculpts aren't too varied but they work for a regiment of spears. I'm a bit more excited about the next few posts.

Skeleton/Ghost Warriors

 As promised, I put together another little unit!

These fellows are armed with a whole bunch of weapons: swords, axes, picks, etc. But since they all have shields I figured they could work well as the basic skeleton warriors.

Why are they ghostly skeletons? That's something I'm still working out. Perhaps for next time.

Here and Back Again

 Well, it's been a bit again. Life! It's a mess

I've had time to work on another little project, though. Picked up some little undead guys for a nice price, and I've started working on very simple displays with them. Far from fancy, but it's been fun to try out.. Here's one!

Meant for kings of war, of course! I figure these guys can serve as skeleton archers, and I've got a couple more units in the works! I might just end up with a little playable skeleton army. The scale is smaller than mantics, of course, so maybe they could just be undead halflings.

Back with Elves and a New Project!

 It's been a busy time in my life, in a good way. And by that I mean that I am now married! It was a longer journey than any of us expected, I think, thanks to covid, but we got there, and things could not have been more perfect. Even when a grasshopper landed on my wife during the wedding. I mean, we decided to take that as a good omen. Grasshoppers are good signs, right?

Anyhow, I have had time for hobby related nonsense recently, so here it is!

First off, my nephews were visiting for the wedding, and one of them helped me finish off the elf horse archers!

He did a really amazing job! There's bits that need work, but heck, that applies to my own painting too. Maybe even more so. For 10 years old, he's doing just fine.

And for my next project... well, I ended up with a lot more than I initially meant to.

I grew up reading the lord of the rings, literally. My parents read the books to me and my sisters as bed time stories. So it's really surprising that I've never picked any of these up before. I went with the corsairs of umbar because I always found them a bit intriguing, plus they look like they'll be fun to paint! We shall see.

The Next Step With Elves

 Turns our my army is going to have elves from at least three different companies now! Which I am ok with, I'm going for completion rather than... most other things. So here is the newest member of the force:

He's an elf archer from the now somewhat old GW isle of blood set. I picked up five of them for a good price on ebay, so they shall now do service as a troop of silverbreeze cavalry. I painted this one up as a test. Yes, the horse is green. Gotta have green horses. Four more to go!

An Army Shot

 Here they are all together. A whole mess of elves.

I did some math and by my calculations I've got a base of around 1100 points here! That's more than I thought it would be, considering it's not really a functional army yet. Right now I'm just trying to plan my next step. Maybe some tree friends to accompany the tree herder in the back?