If You Go Down To The Woods Today...

 On with the show then!

As I stated in my previous post, I've got three main projects I want to focus on this year (or four, if you count the one I don't have to paint figures for!) The first of these are my Wood Elves.

I began repainting my Wood Elves last year in order to take part in GW's Throne of Skulls event in October. I wasn't happy about turning up with my army in the state it was in, as my painting has improved a lot since I first painted them, and so I made the decision to start completely from scratch and repaint everything, starting with the stuff I'd need for a 2000 points list to take to the Throne of Skulls.

The repainted stuff so far - the 2k list I took to the Throne of Skulls

That army consisted of 91 models, which I managed to paint from start to finish in 96 days. Those 2000 points represent less than half of all my Wood Elf models though. I said in the last post that I had 128 more Wood Elves to paint - turns out that number was off by quite a bit, as I'd forgotten to include several of the models I had tucked away in boxes and drawers! For your perusal then, here is the complete list of Wood Elf models I'm aiming to get painted this year:

35 old 5th Edition Archers

39 Eternal Guard

4 Dryads

9 new Glade Guard (archers)

3 Mages

6 Lords/Nobles (four on foot, two mounted)

2 Eagles

15 Glade Riders

15 old 5th Edition Glade Riders

Dragon

16 Wardancers

12 Waywatchers

Treeman

6 Warhawk Riders

Orion

Ariel

Total - 166 models

A selection of Wood Elves waiting to be undercoated

Quite a task! Given that I've painted an average of around 130 models per year over the last three years, if I paint all the Wood Elves it will be a good year, let alone tackling any of my other projects. Nevertheless, I am going to plough ahead and attempt it. I'm busy preparing models for painting for all three projects - if it ever stops raining, I'll even get to go outside and undercoat them, so that painting can commence!