Shadespyre's July Post - OWAC VIII Wrap Up Post - High Elves of Lothern - 3304 points, 96 models

OWAC VIII - Wrap up - High Elves of Lothern

July

No new miniatures to show you, I haven't added anything new since last month. Instead, I can share some (blurry) pictures of the whole force together.

The block of infantry at the rear right of the photos is not a whole new unit, I just made and decorated a skirmish style movement tray to stand all those individual miniatures on.

What I've ended up with is a small force dominated by cavalry and archers, which I suppose is to be expected for High Elves. With just one solid infantry block it's an army that would rely on aggressive tactics, your best chance of victory would be to smash the enemy in one decisive cavalry charge.

The intention of sharing a basing style with the Wood Elf army (from OWAC VII) is that the Lothern troops could be deployed as an allied force (though it would require a huge game to field all of both!), which would bring a heavy cavalry element which is missing from that army.

It would be fun, but far too much work, to get all of my Wood and High Elves set up on the same table for a photo call. Maybe one day, but not any time soon I'm afraid.

It's a much smaller army (half the size or less) of my last three OWAC projects, which made it a bit more manageable, even though I actually ended up painting more miniatures than I expected. Will I add to it? Possibly. I'd need to find substantial numbers of the miniatures from the range that suit being units - it seems unlikely I'll get that lucky again, but you never know!

I like how the simple heraldry works this time around. The "decal on a plain background" has been a choice born of desperation and laziness before now, but I think it looks much better here than on the Dark Elves, for example.

Thnaks to everyone who left comments, critique and encouragement this year, being part of this group is inspiring and (most importantly) great fun.

OWAC IX

I really don't know right now. Those with long memories will remember that right back when I joined the OWAC group I worried that my participation was threatened by my back problems? Well, after much frustration I am finally on a waiting list for surgery to hopefully fix me, and so until I have a date confrmed for that I can't be sure what months of 2026 I will be fit to paint in... hopefully all will be clear before December!

Shadespyre's June Post - Wild Card Month - OWAC VIII - High Elves of Lothern

OWAC VIII - Wild Card Month - High Elves of Lothern

June

The last month of OWAC VIII and it's WILDCARD MONTH

Probably one of my least wild ones, if I'm honest. But this is what I've got for you:

More Heroes

Let's start off with slotta-based imposters - this is Brommedir from the Blood bath at Orks Rift scenario. Such a fancy fellow that I just had to include him here.

And this is the C33 Elf Hero, in his mounted and dismounted forms. So obviously a match to the C08 ranges and the Regiments of Renown that I'm using that I don't really understand how they ended up separate from them.

And then, I've also painted a few more of the C08 sculpts. I picked through my collection and used the *worst* examples of everything that I had doubles of - in other words, I still have a full set of

 36 in decent condition stashed away - to add to this project.

So here we have another four:

In this set, the two handed sword blade is a replacement, the second guy is pretty much solid, the third guy barely has a face, and the spear has been repaired at least three times!

And here are three more:

These are actually in okay condition. I don't like the first guy much, even in this range he is very busy with clashing details. And then the fighter-mage on the right has a rather deformed face.

And here is the last four:

These are among my favourites. I hope it's pretty obvious that the second guy was missing his hand, and this is how he ended up wielding the enormous Coffee of Doom. Hmm, that cup seems familar from somewhere?

This takes us to 16 out of 36 sculpts included in this project in some form or another. Some of these minis, like the Cleric with the mace, I really like and if I could have found enough to make a unit I'd have been very happy. Some would only work as characters or unit leaders. Maybe the opportunity will come to add more to the army, but I think I'm done with these colours for now.

None of these have a set roll in the army as such, so I'm not going to bother working out points for them.

However, here are some "proper" additions.

Dragons

Would you believe that I had no plans to include a dragon in this army? No Dragons? Me? 

But honestly I did not.

It was only when I paused the project briefly to paint a dragon as a gift / favour for a friend that I realised that I really wanted to paint more of them. So I had a dig around and came up with this:

So this is the Marauder Miniatures MBF17 High Elf Dragonlord *Dragon*, for which I don't have the proper rider, with a modified Elwing's rider on his back. I built the saddle to make the two meet up as best as I could.

The Dragon, Kargos, is traditionally a big red firebreathing type, but to fit better with this army I borrowed the colours from the later Prince Imrik box art. I think he looks quite smart.

I also wanted to include some sort of "sea dragon". I considered a number of serpentine types, but they tend to be sculpted as in the sea, and I wanted something that might have travelled inland with the army - far enough to have joined up with their Wood Elf cousins. And I eventually turned up this little guy from one of my boxes:

This is the Ral Partha Sea Dragon, code 01-151 (I think you can still get it from Ironwind Minis if you want one). I like his fishy look, but those wings suggest he's not restricted to the seaside. The paint scheme is inspired by the Blue Marlin and uses all of the blues which appear in the army, which is a nice way to tie things together, I thought.

So that is that. OWAC VIII done! Apart from a final July post where I might mull on what I've done and try to get a full army picture for you. Thanks for reading!

Scores for June:                620 points   16 models

1 x Elven Dragonkin            (Lance, Shield, Bow)                                                              320 points

1 x Dragon                           (Level 1, Wings)                                                                     300 points            

Running Total:                   3304 points  96  models

Shadespyre's May Post - Leader Month - OWAC VIII - High Elves of Lothern (+1345 points)

OWAC VIII - Leader Month - High Elves of Lothern

May

Leader Month. I promised leaders, I promised banners, and I promised basing. Here we go, then.

Let's start off with the units we've seen before, just with their command groups added and their bases decorated.

Here we have the main infantry regiment, the Lothern City Guard, joined by their infamous Champion Lahaven Ramjewel (3rd from left) and notorious commnding officer D'roi Haisplinn (3rd from right), as well as their musician and standard bearer. For the standard, I've simply used a much bigger version of the dragon / sea serpent head on a nice blue background - I don't think it *needs* anything else, and I'm feeling too lazy to add anything, anyway. 

In my quest for the perfect way to make banners, this is made out of milliput, rolled out thin onto a plastic bag and the crinkled to get the hanging effect. It looks quite nice but it was very messy and tedious to make! Not sure I'd do it again. You'll recognise the decorative components from later plastic High Elf kits.

I think in future I might just trim the 3d printed bases down by a fraction of a milimetre; the perfect fit is nice but as soon as paint and glue and flock is involved the minis are hard to get in and out of the movement trays.

Next up is the main unit of Elwing's Guard Cavalry. Elwing of Lothern is the great-coated officer with the golden helmet crest, the unti champion Estrulan is the same sword waving officer I've used in all three units (there are only so many models to go around!) This standard is also made of milliput (I made a big sheet of it and cut out the sections which worked best). The spiral pole was made by twisting some square section styrene rod with two pairs of pliers. I didn't get quite the same shape as the metal spear shafts but I think it looks okay. 

Just a word on the basing - I tried to use exactly the same elements that I did on the summer variant of the Wood Elves. I may have missed or run out of a couple of things, I certainly have used less of the red and yellow flowers as I'd almost run out of those. Looking at some of these pics I might need to re-glue a couple of tufts to make sure they stay in place!

Above we have the two smaller cavalry squadrons, exactly as we've seen them before but with added basing. Just to show that I've done it! The next unit does have a new guy though...

I took out the least tidy / most lead-rotted archer and added an officer instead. The pointy pose and heavy armour made him a good choice to add to this unit, I felt. This is a terrible viewing angle for this mini, so here's a hastily-taken but better one.

Added to his colleagues, this C08 High Elf Cleric is just the second miniature from that range that I've included so far. Better include some more, then!

And so here is a second unit of archers. If the first lot are "heavy" Archers, then perhaps these are the "medium" equivalent. Again, these are labelled as "Fighter Thief", presumably because in 1st Ed AD&D single classed Thieves were not allowed to use longbows. The Wizard, meanwhile, is labelled Fighter Magic-user, because there is a breastplate barely visible under his coat and armour and wizards didn't mix.

I went with the white padded armour again, and enjoyed contrasting it with the dark blue. This unit has much less of the dark red on it (but from the rear you can see their quivers).

This unit takes us to 4 (out of 36!) C08 High Elf sculpts.

Finally for now, the presence of Heavy and Medium Archers demands Light Archers, or Scouts. So here they are! Rather than a character class, these are labelled "War Maid" as if to make sure we know they are female. These ladies take us to 5/36. Not 6? No, because their leader is a slotta-based miniature (gasps of horror!).

But I'm not going to apologise for including the famous High Elf Adventuress Riolta Snow (as seen in classic Warhammer scenarios The Magnificent Sven and Terror of the Lichemaster) in this unit, because she looks so good there. And Riolta Snow's Scouts is a good name for a bunch of white-clad Elves, in my book.

Maybe one day I'll get another copy of the mini and paint her in the fabulous bright colours from those scenarios, but that's another story.

Will that do for Leader month? I think it will. 

Scores for May:       1345 points   29 models

This month's additions are a bit complicated due to all the command models, but I think I added:

1 x Lahaven Ramjewel          (Level 5, Heavy Armour, Greatsword)                      54 points

1 x D'roi Haisplinn                (Level 15, Light Armour, Shield)                              131 points

1 x Guard Standard bearer    (Light Armour, Shield, Spear)                                     26 points

1 x Guard Musician              (Light Armour, Shield, Spear)                                     26 points

1 x Elwing                            (level 20, Heavy Armour, Warhorse, Lance)                180 points

1 x Estrulan                           (level 10, Heavy Armour, Warhorse, Lance)               100 points 

1 x Cavalry Standard Bearer (Heavy Armour)                                                          74 points 

1 x Cavalry Musician            (Heavy Armour)                                                          74 points

1 x Heavy Archer Officer    (level 5, Light Armour, Longbow)                                53 points

9 x Medium Archers                                                                                                   126 points

1 x Wizard                            (Level 15, Longbow)                                                     206 points

9 x Scouts                            (Light Armour)                                                              162 points

1 x Riolta Snow                    (Level 15, Light Armour, Longbow)                            133 points            

Running Total:        2684  points  80  models

NEXT TIME:

Wild Card month. So obviously I'll just take a mullig.... no? You want more? Okay, I got more. Tune in in June to see if we can get beyond 5/36 C08 sculpts in this OWAC...

Shadespyre's April Post - Rank and File Month IV - OWAC VIII - High Elves of Lothern (+411 points)

OWAC VIII - Rank and File Month IV - High Elves of Lothern

April

Probably my busiest month of the whole OWAC, lots and lots of progress but only a little bit of it is ready to show to you.

Let's start with the next / last unit of cavalry. The second unit of six, this time with the grey-white horse variant, and with the shields completed. 

Yes, I would love to have had these based by now but I've been prioritising painting. Basing soon, I promise!

That's the last of the 24 copies of the same horse, I think. Phew. Also the last of the Regiments of Renown troopers... but there are some command models to come in "Leaders" month.

So that means no more painting multiple copies of identical figures, right? Oh, no, it does NOT! Because with my initial "promise" pretty much completed, I've started on some more troops...

These ten (nominally identical) archers are from the C08 High Elves range. I think this guy is a "Fighter-Thief" in good old AD&D parlance. It's not easy to collect unit sized numbers of these models, but I've got a bit lucky here. On close inspection, three of these had varying amounts of lead rot and needed some greenstuff - there's one at the back where all of his robes are visibly cracked, and that all had to be filled. I'll probably jettison him in favour of a unit leader at some point.

I find it takes a couple of attempts to reach a good colour balance with these very busy sculpts. These started in blue robes but came out very dark overall, and are a completely different prospect with white cloth instead. 

I think the fancy costumes do a good job of conveying "+1 Missile Elite" vibes, don't you?

Finally for now, here's one of the inspirations behind this project's colour scheme:

This is a hand made coffee cup that I got from a clever friend of mine, it sits on my desk all day (usually with a handful of sweets or snacks in it because I don't want to risk ruining it with coffee!). I don't remember actually deciding to use exactly that shade of blue because of the cup, but it can't be a coincidence, can it?

That's it for April! 

Scores for April:       411    points   16 models

1 x Champion          (Level 5, heavy Armour, Shield, Lance, Warhorse)        61 points

5 x Silver Helms     (Light Armour, Shield, Lance, Warhorse, Standard)    210 points

10 x Archers            (Light armour, Longbow)                                                    140 points

Running Total:        1339  points  51  models

NEXT TIME:

Leader month! Heroes! Banners!! Basing??? (yes, I promise)

Shadespyre's March Post - Rank and File Month III - OWAC VIII - High Elves of Lothern (+397 points)

OWAC VIII - Rank and File Month (III) - High Elves of Lothern

March

Things continue to move along nicely. There's still lots morework going on in the background, which means I'm confident of ending up with a larger army than I originally envisaged, while still smaller and more focussed than my last few projects. And I've found a few hours to work on non-OWAC miniatures, which was almost unheard of for the last few years.

Here's my presentation for the third Rank and File month, the second (and largest) of three units of Elwing's Elf Cavalry:

Once again, there is a gap left here for the command group. I think I'm going to hand make the banners (as in, the physical structure of them) as none of the plastic ones in my collection quite work. Will it be paper or greenstuff or plasticard or...? At this point I just don't know! 

These horses are the two colour schemes that I introduced last month. I'm still undecided as to whether to mix the horse colours between units, or not. None of the riders are glued in place yet, so I still have total freedom until I do that. Or until I do the basing. And to be honest, the more minis I paint without doing the basing, the more sensible it seems to leave it right to the end. It's just such a messy process!

Oh yes! We have heraldry now!

I'm not going to willingly show such close ups of my tabletop quality minis very often, but I wanted to focus in on the shields. Yes, these are decals, there is no way in hell I was going to try and do this in freehand over more than a few miniatures, let alone a whole army. 

I'm pretty pleased with how these came out, I seem to have got a nice, even finish. Having had mixed results with other armies, this time I put no less than THREE coats of brush on gloss varnish over the decals before applying my usual matt spray coat, and it's definitely the best integration of water-slide transfer and paint that I've acheived to date. A long process, but worth it - I might even go back to previous armies and repeat the multiple glossings!

Scores for March:       397    points   9 models

1 x Champion          (Level 5, heavy Armour, Shield, Lance, Warhorse)        61 points

8 x Silver Helms     (Light Armour, Shield, Lance, Warhorse, Standard)    336 points

Running Total:            928  points  35  models

NEXT TIME:

More Elves, obviously - probably the third and final unit of cavalry, maybe something extra if you've all been good?

Shadespyre's February Post- Rank & File II - OWAC VIII - High Elves of Lothern (+260 points)

 OWAC VIII - Rank and File Month (II) - High Elves of Lothern

February

As promised last month, I've shifted to taking on some infantry this time around, making a start on the almost infinite* pile of identical spearmen that I have inflicted on myself. Once again, painting a Regiment of Renown gives me an "official" description to interpret:

"The uniform comprises a close fitting helmet, which is gilded. The tunic is padded and white, the belts and other decorative items are red. Spear shafts are blue, whilst most metal is either steel or silver." 

It took me a while to get the colours mentioned in places that I liked them, which I finally acheived having waved three different versions at some of my painting pals until they gave opinions! In the end, I think it was the red tassles on the spears which made it work.

Obviously, there is a gap left here for the command group. Though I've made a start, I'll be leaving those for later, partly because I need to build a standard pole, and partly because I need to decide on the theme and heraldy before I do that. Plus "Leader Month" is compulsory and so I need to save something to put in it!

*it turns out there were only twenty of them, but it felt like more.

This isn't everything I've been working on. Progress continues on the cavalry because I want to make sure I can present at least one more unit of those in March. This means I have tried out two more colour schemes for white horses:

I'm not sure that brown tails and manes on white horses is very realistic, but it looks quite pretty. And at the end of the day everyone is looking at the riders, really.

I'm also feeling confident enough with my progress that I've started prepping some extra units for this army. These are taken from the non-Regiment of Renown C09 range, so it would be really nice to be able to get them painted up this year. As previously highlighted, some of them are quite elaborate, so might take a lot of painting!

Scores for February:       260    points   20 models

20 x Guards    (Light Armour, Shield, Spear)                                                    260 points

Running Total:              531  points  26  models

NEXT TIME:

More Elves, obviously - probably a second unit of cavalry. Maybe some idea of what I'm going to put on all those blue shields?

Shadespyre's January Post - OWAC VIII - High Elves of Lothern (271 points)

OWAC VIII - Rank and File Month - High Elves of Lothern

January

Finally under way!

As is traditional, I started with a pile of undercoated miniatures and a vague idea of a colour scheme. Actually, a little less vague because there is a description provided for the Regiments of Renown... for Elwing's Elf Cavalry: "The Elves are dressed in blue uniforms, whilst most of the leatherwork is black or red: Helmets and other metal fittings are silver or silver plated. Spear-shafts are painted blue, with white, blue or red pennants indicating different Companies."

Here's how I've interpreted that:

Because you can never have too many paints, I treated myself to some new ones. I've added Templar Blue, Ashen Blue and Glacial Blue, all from the Reaper Masters Series, to my collection for this project.

Just one unit of six for now, but that meets the monthly requirements so I don't mind. Obviously, they will get some sort of heraldry added to the shields at some point - probabaly a white symbol of some sort. I've got a few ideas but I want to stew on them for a while.

Likewise, I'll do a big basing session when I've got more minis painted. If you've seen my Wood Elves from OWAC VII you'll know what to expect.

One aspect of this project which could get tiresome is the repeated painting of the same miniatures. For example, every cavalryman across three units is riding the same horse! While I want to have a degree of uniformity, I've decided to do different variants of white horse. Here's a comparison of the first two, I may try for four varieties in all.

Alert viewers will notice that the unit above are all riding the "blond" variant, so yes, I have started on a second unit already.

Scores for January:       271    points   6 models

1 x Champion          (Level 5, heavy Armour, Shield, Lance, Warhorse)        61 points

5 x Silver Helms     (Light Armour, Shield, Lance, Warhorse, Standard)    210 points

Running Total:              271  points  6  models

ENTRY FEE MINIS

With a choice of THREE worthy recipients this time around, I was at a loss what to paint for who! With so many projects on my to do list, my supply of "spare" miniatures is quite depleted. Fortunately, as I trawled the depths of my collection, I found a selection of beasts of burden! Highly fitting for the "baggage train" them of OWAC VIII, so I plucked three of them out to paint up:

I'll be posting one of these to each of our committee members as a Thank You for their organisational efforts. I hope they will suit.

NEXT TIME:

More Elves, obviously. Here's a sneak preview of some WIP infantry

Shadespyre's Introduction Post - OWAC VIII - 3rd Edition High Elves of Lothern

Shadespyre Intro Post - OWAC VIII - 3rd Edition High Elves

Introduction Post

It was always likely to be Elves again. For OWAC VI, I painted a rather idiosyncratic Dark Elf army, loosely themed around AD&D Drow and made up almost entirely of ancient pre-slotta miniatures. For OWAC VII, I painted a much more traditional 3rd edition Wood Elf army, consisting mostly of mid to late 80s minis much like those pictured in the Warhammer Armies book. And I added allied contingents from the Zoats and Halfling lists in the same source.

And then once the OWAC had ended, I pushed on and added three more Wood Elf units to the army.

I still have a lot of Elf options open to me, though.

For the second time, I started prepping a force of Rogue Trader Space Elf Raiders for an OWAC. And for the second time, I've let the lack of a clear concept for a colour scheme and the fact that several fellow OWACers have similar plans put me off committing to it. That and the fact that I've had a Big Idea for it which I haven't yet worked out how to implement. So maybe next time?

I considered swapping to Craftworld Eldar (requires too much shopping) or Harlequins (not a force I want to paint to a time limit) or to one of my non-Elvish options. But then I realised that the answer was obviously High Elves. 

Why? Firstly, they are the next entry in the Warhammer Armies book! Secondly, they are also available as an Allies list for Wood Elves, so I can justify using the same basing style and save my creative energy for thinking about other things. And thirdly, I have a collection of mid 80s High Elves which is big enough to make a small army. And fourthly, Aly Morrison sculpted some of the most distinctive Elves that Citadel ever produced, and I love them in all their bonkers glory.

C08 High Elves

Here's one of my many old Citadel Miniatures mini cases, this layer has at least one of each of all the releases in this range. I completed this collection some years ago, and never really considered it to be a potential army until very recently.

It's a lousy picture, so here are some of the catalog entries for them, borrowed as ever from Stuff of Legends. A bit annoying that Citadel repeatedly advertised the same minis even though there are more than 30 in the range, but they give an idea of the furry-hatted, curly-shoed, overly-feathered silliness of them, as well as the intruging selection of maces, axes and fancy polearms alongside the traditional bows and swords. I'd love to know what brought Aly to use this style, which I think draws on Persian and Indian influences, although some of the minis remain very much in the familar pseudo-European look.

This range came out late in 1984. It's a fully pre-slotta range, part of a brief Golden Era of Citadel minis which has words embossed onto the top of the bases (I'm sure I've talked about this before, I'm obsessed with this phase in miniature history.) In common with the C10 Half-Orcs which were released a little earlier, these guys are each assigned AD&D character classes - Fighter, Cleric, Thief, Magic-user and even multiclass combinations - because the D&D player was still the core of their market at this time. Within a year of release, these were replaced by a new slotta-tabbed C08 range, still sculpted by Morrison but back to a more conventional Elven aesthetic.

I know what you're thinking - some of those silly Elves are quite cute, but an army? It's mostly character models, there's no musicians or cavalry or... anything. And you're right. Which is why, as much as I love them, most of these will be staying in their box for this project.

BUT Citadel Miniatures (and Aly) have us covered - either side of Christmas 1984 they released two Elvish Regiments of Renown.

Regiments of Renown

RR13 Lothern City Guard

RR10 Elwing's Elven Guard Cavalry

As you can see from the art, these are very much in tune with the other High Elves, if a little less gaudy for the rank and file models. These are the minis that I'm mostly going to be using for this army. Worth noting that while the cavalry models are still on solid bases, the infantry are among the first releases with slotta tabs.

So, here's a snapshot of the core of my army, all based up ready for undercoating. This consists of a large unit of Lothern City Guard and a full two dozen Elven Guard Cavalry, which I shall split into 3 squadrons. There's also a couple of other minis in there which I will discuss when I come to paint them.

Yes, this is a much smaller project than I've undertaken recently. This is partly because I felt quite burned out after painting 250 Warhammer minis in the last year, and also because I've started playing in a second fortnightly RPG group, which means less time to paint minis each weekend - and of course I will inevitably be painting minis for that game, too. And let's not forget that painting 25 cavalry will feel like painting at least 50 Infantry.

I do have some extra units that I hope to paint alongside these, and don't forget that big box of characters to dip into. Maybe this will even become the push I need to paint the full set of those?

Bases

A quick bit about basing. For my pre-slotta Dark Elf army I switched to using MDF bases which I drilled holes for magnets into. I liked how they came out, but there was a surprising amount of prep involved - drilling and sanding every base.

So this time round I ventured into CAD and designed and printed my own bases:

These have a 5mm magnet hole and a 2mm high lip around them, the hope being to conceal the solid bases within them and backfill with basing material. I was able to print these out on my very basic PLA filament printer fairly easily with very few mis-prints. I should probably have put two magnet holes in the cavalry bases, but I think one will be enough to protect against jostling even if I wouldn't dare turn the unit upside down like I can with the infantry.

Army List

I haven't written a full army list yet, but looking at the 3rd ed Warhammer Armies book:

20 Silver Helms @35 points each = 700 points

20 Guard @ 13 points each = 260 points

So I'm going to sail past 1000 points just by adding command options, let alone characters.

I'll be compiling a proper 3rd edition list unit by unit, as I go...

Pokrzyw's Druchii - OWAC VII - wrap up post - 4207 points total

 For those about to finish the OWAC - I salute you!!!

In memory of Bryan Ansell.

"In the far north lies the realm of the Witch King of Naggaroth, the bleak and frozen Land of Chill. Here are the cities of the Dark Elves, battlements of black stone and high towers rising like cruel spears into the pale sky. The Witch King rules over all the cold mountains and dark forests with an unbending will of iron. Dark Lords and their mighty armies are his to command. Sorcerers hasten to his call. Pale and beautiful Witch Elves dance their deadly rites before his throne as they keen the battle songs of theirs bloody master" - Warhammer Armies Dark Elves 4ed

At beginning it was just a scrap of metal and plastic


                                       


It were long 6 months of preparing and painting miniatures that are not my favourite army (with some exceptions). Druchii come on my shelf by some chain of barter. But.. there were a lot miniatures waiting for painting.. Main forces are ready in result of OWAC VII, but my personal weakness - cavalry is still not finished.  This time I've also do some bonus miniatures connected with army, but from 6-7th edition of WFB. Main work was done during first months. Last two I was not at home travelling a lot. 

Gallery:

Bonus miniatures - beasmaster on manticore, hydra, sorcress and Mengil Manflyers

Malekith conversion on dragon

Main OWAC 7 forces

Harpies, sorcress on cold one, and spearman unit gave me a lot of fun

Dragon is nice centerpiece of this army. This small guy made by Jaakko would act as a hero (I gave him possibility to ride the dragon from time to time ;o) )

Cold one knights - I'm happy with this scheme. Tomato soup boiled bu master chief ;)

I need to prepare better banners next time..

The coolest mercenary unit. This is the salt of 6edition Druchii

The most beautiful Witch Elves

During OWAC V I've painted High Elves army. This is good moment to show both armies in deadly clash. High Elves are brave, but it looks that Druchii have superiority on battlefield:

Remainings:

Unfortunately there were some casualties. Not painted, waiting for better day.. Black Riders and Hydra still not finished..

Summary 

TOTAL 4207 points of raw WFB 4ed (including 381pts in bonus miniatures).
Heroes (1150 + bonus 307) :

• Dreadlord on dragon (610)
• Sorceress on foot (59)
• General on cold one (179)
• Sorceress on cold one  (72)
• Sorcerer on foot (59)
• Assassin (56)
• Assassin (56)
• Sorceress on foot (59)
• Hero on Manticore (307)

Units (1744 +  bonus 156):

• 6 Harpies (90)
• 5 Cold one knights  (with champion, banner) (302)
• Dark Elf warriors (with champion, banner) (173)
• 10 city guards (5 xbows + 5 spears) - (130)
• 10 city guards (5 xbows + 5 spears) - (130)
• 11 xbows (169) + champion (53) 
• 14 spearmans (399) + champion (52)
• 10 Mengil Manflayers as scouts - Bonus (156)
• 22 Witch Elves (banner) (276)

War Machines (625):

• 5 Repeater Bolt Throwers (500)
• Cauldron of blood (125)

Monsters (bonus 225):

• Warhydra - bonus (225)

Thank You very much for such a great time. I'm proud to be in the group that reach the end of this challenge. I plan to skip OWAC VIII as I don't have miniatures for such event, but there are plans to return in OWAC IX. Maybe there will be time for WH40k project.