As described on the Cynwäll Pulsar page I decided to quickly boost my previously unsuccessful Elves with a Pulsar and an Equanimous Warrior that I started painting well over a year ago.
As some of you may remember I got thoroughly thrashed by my brother and his fiancee during the summer’s Confrontation battles. Probably due to my inability to make proper use of my Elves rather than anything else. I was determined to get my Orcs of the Behemoth painted for Christmas, but new job and a project taking me away from home got in the way (I did paint one tracker, just for the record). So five days before flying home I in a panic attack-ish fit decided to beef up my Elves with a Pulsar, which I hadn’t even assembled…
I’ve been back in Denmark for a couple of weeks and had the chance to pitch my Cynwäll Elves against my brother’s Undeads and his fiance’s Wolfen. Photos of the latter two armies to come but in the meantime I have uploaded a page of blurry iPhone shots.
I met up with my brother and his fiance and we have a chance to play two 400points 3-player Confrontation battles. For me it was the first time in years and since we only decided to play last minute, I didn’t get a chance to finish my Orcs of the Behemoth so i had to settle for my paint-to-play Cynwäll Elves who are stand-ins until my Orcs are completed. My Elves faced my brother’s Undeads and his fiance’s Wolfen. Here are photos of the first battle but I can reveal I lost both games horribly. Set-Up The first game was with no Magic or Miracles mainly…
Let’s be honest; I am not entirely happy with how these girls turned out, but at the end of the day they belong to a paint-for-play army so they will be fine especially next to the rest of the army and facing enemies. Click here to see photos of them alone, with friends and against foes.
As described on the Cynwall page, the main point of my Elven army was a quick-paint-to-play army to have something to play with while painting the Orcs of the Behemoth army containing miniatures that take considerably longer to paint. Nevertheless I am not entirely happy with how these Echahïm turned out and I think it is because I feel they lack definition between the light blue armour and the white cloth. I also think their face look more like drag queens than elegant elven females, but as this is a paint-to-play army, I am not going to repaint them.. I think….
Been a while since I’ve finished a miniature and I didn’t expect it to be one of the incredibly detailed and therefore time-consuming) Orcs of the Behemoth but inspiration took over and voila; Mystic of the Behemoth done I am one step close to having a fully painted orcs of the Behemoth army. See more Mystic of the Behemoth photos here.
One of the reasons why I have two Confrontation armies is that I wasn’t sure whether I would ever get time to paint all the Orcs of the Behemoth because they take a long time to paint due to the huge amount of little details on every single miniature. The Mystic of the Behemoth is no different. With flasks, lanterns, stones, skulls and even a pig this miniature took a long time to paint. But I am quite happy with the result so have primed all the other Orcs of the Behemoth I have as I now feel encouraged to paint…
Having finally managed to complete Grakkha, painting Kamahru’s Incarnate was significantly easier. But it did take longer than I anticipated as I expected it to be a quick drybrush job and I guess to a certain extend it was. I painted it dark brown and drybrushed it with a lighter leather brown. So far so good. All according to plan, but it didn’t quite look like what I expected. It looked like a young healthy tree rather than a possessed piece of walking lumber. I did toy with the idea of giving it an inner green glow similar to what…