Wood you believe it!

I assembled the contents of the looncurse box, a Treelord Ancient and Drycha. Some of the last sprues of dryads I had were used as a test to convert a squad of Spite-revenants using the heads and arms left on the tree revenant sprues. They look ok, clearly a different silhouette from the dryads and tree-revs, and with some paint they should be good to go, and a significant saving on another couple boxes of tree rev’s.

The Camo brown spray ran out so as I wanted to get stuff primed today I went a bit heavier with the white zenith, I don’t think it will make a huge difference to be honest but we’ll see.

The Forest Shamblers were to be used as Kurnoth hunters but were a bit shorter and lacked the branches of the GW models. To remedy this and help them tie into the rest of the army they were based on the correct 60mm round bases which I built up with milliput and gravel from my in-laws front garden ;). They also had spare dryad back branches attached to give them a bit more girth and again add some more height. As they were based I did a trial of my “Forest floor” basing using my secret weapon: mixed herbs. I think it looks pretty good and as a bonus the army will smell faintly of pizza whenever it comes out the box (at least for a while).

I started with the dryads that were assembled and primed, they got a white zenith then I started painting. Initially I went with Militarum Green for the leaves, aethermatic blue for the eyes/magic and Wyldwood Wood brown for everything else. This was a pretty woody looking but very dark, not what I was looking for. So I mixed it up a bit and tried a new scheme with same green and blue ares but i split the bark into different areas. The torso/bikini, “boots” to the knee and lower branches were Wyld wood but the thighs, arms, branch tips and face were snakebite leather. This gave a bit more definition to the models so I ploughed on and applied this to the whole force. Added to the dryads were a squad of Tree revenants, the mantic Tree Herders and i built a spirit of Durthu.

I have been sitting on a pile of Sylvaneth minis for a couple years now and never got round to actually doing anything with them. Not any longer! This year I hope to make a bit of a dent in the mini’s mountain in my loft by actually building, painting and maybe, just maybe gaming with some of them. Like everyone else I have lots of unfinished projects, unstated projects and just boxes of stuff waiting for a rainy day. We’ve had plenty of them lately so I decided to dive in and start with one of my favourite armies that I have collected for years but never really done anything with: Tree folk.

The state of the army as of last week was a couple boxes of dryads from around 7th ed WFB, couple start collecting boxes from current AoS, some Mantic Forest shambles from KoW 1st Kickstarter and a Looncurse. Hardly any built and nothing painted to a gaming standard. The Dryads I had built had been under coated in a Halfords Camo brown spray, the plan being to dry brush them later, fast forward a couple years to now, no drybrushing. The new plan was keep the brown primer and zenith white then unleash Contrast!! Let’s see how i got on (actually started last week but didn’t think to start this project blog until today. It’s my first so we’ll see how this goes.).