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Offline Dave

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #30 on: February 09, 2012, 08:56:03 PM »
Matt, I want you to know I was going to refrain from a "What are you using them as? Ethereal Host?" comment but then you ignored today's other jab. So...

If it legal that you based them flying? Because Ethereal Host units have to stay on the ground.

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #31 on: February 10, 2012, 01:13:59 PM »
Thanks jchaos. As Stormwind says, they are indeed from GW. I don't have the full kit though; I got a couple sets of the decorations from ebay. Anyone want some plastic ivy and some spikes with skulls on them?  :P

@Dave:  ::) Well obviously they're not ethereal hosts, since they're flying... duh oooo you make me sooo mad!! ::)
(happy now? You got your response. Now the SG world knows how annoying our gaming group is  :P )

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #32 on: February 10, 2012, 05:35:44 PM »
Not tempted to keep the plastic ivy for some Wood elves or ruins?  The statues that come with the kit look /perfect/ for making free standing statues for Empire scenery / centrepieces for a village.
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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #33 on: February 22, 2012, 03:14:45 PM »
Ok, plodding along with another minor update. I'm still working on BoFA stuff: human spearmen and archers that are going to be elves, and some eagles.

As for completed stuff, Kislevite horse archers for use with Dogs of War:









I tried a different basing scheme with this unit - it came out alright but the flock I used seems to need more green to stand out. no matter

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #34 on: February 22, 2012, 03:42:46 PM »
Looks good!  Dull green seems appropriate for Steppe Archers. =)
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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #35 on: February 22, 2012, 05:02:25 PM »
Great looking horse archers!

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #36 on: February 22, 2012, 10:47:39 PM »
Those look great!

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #37 on: February 23, 2012, 04:17:54 PM »
Love your horse arachers, the basing looks great.

I like your little flying demons and your harpies as well. Very good.

If i do another harpy unit, i think i'll use your colour scheme for them  :)

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #38 on: February 23, 2012, 05:19:59 PM »
Thanks guys - high praise indeed.
Camicil, you should copy the harpy bases as well, as I ripped off that scheme from you  :P

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #39 on: March 07, 2012, 02:35:16 PM »
Can you say "pro-crast-in-ation"? An update on working through my WM backlog before I have to get to some real work...
I think I am done with my high elves. After a few years sitting on some BoFA units, finally got them finished last night. These are eagles, and human spearmen and archers that I'm using as elves. For some reason, the latter turned out to be a royal pain in the ass - lot's of touch-up, a ton of brown shades, and plenty of "Oh my GOD, these are STILL in my to-do pile?!?" They definitely look better than my other HE stuff, but they will by dying first in any battle in which I use them. Vindictive? what are you talking about?  :P

Spearmen:






Archers:






Eagles:






New eagles compared with old ones:


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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #40 on: March 07, 2012, 02:42:00 PM »
"what makes them elves instead of just some dudes?" You might ask? Two things: they're in the same scheme as my other elves (green), but more importantly, they're all blondes.

Group shot:


And a big picture status update on the WM Phase II project: Before I can start my dark elves, I have a bunch of orks and goblins (mainly goblins) that have to be painted:

The "desk drawer to-do pile":


As you can see, I'm running out of storage space for my armies. There are epic titans, an objective marker, my WM dwarves, and the black-primed stuff are goblins, goblin fanatics, fanatic cannons, an empire siege gun, giant and regular-sized squiggs, just to name a few.


Hopefully I have the willpower to get to this stuff (and three chaos blisters) before starting the more interesting dark elves.

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #41 on: March 07, 2012, 07:17:26 PM »
wow we can peep a lot goblins in their way!!

High elves are awesome, (I found particulary boring painting those figures) and eagles are great too

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #42 on: March 07, 2012, 10:41:27 PM »
The High Elves look great!  Will you be bringing them on Saturday?

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #43 on: March 08, 2012, 10:32:58 AM »
I really like the clean painting of your BoFA miniatures.

I also like the look of the upcoming WM, and like your epic models.

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Re: [WM] Del Boca Vista, I mean WM, Phase II
« Reply #44 on: March 09, 2012, 08:15:28 PM »
Thanks guys.
Ed, I'm bringing the Dogs of War again. One of these days I'll actually use the elves instead of just farming them out as stand-ins for Dave's army.
The first coats of paint are going on the goblins and squiggs tonight. Hopefully more updates coming soon... but not too soon heh.