The Green Man painting blog

[Green Man]

Hello elves,

Here are some pictures of my army as it currently stands, there are about 1500 points painted at the moment.

My only character so far, the spellweaver. I have another model waiting to be painted, but what I really want is an army standard bearer. I am looking round for a decent model for this, or I could make a plastic one.



The glade guard are partly made from high elves. The idea behind this was to be able to re-use them in a High Elf Avelorn army which I will get to eventually.



I much prefer the older style of wardancers and have two small units painted. I have more of these models and am considering the possibility of converting them into wild riders.



Finally in the Asrai section, some scouts, just mostly standard plastics.

[Green Man]

And now the forest spirits, just three units at the moment, but I am working on expanding this.



The treeman is made from a metal 90's figure, which I chopped in half and extended with plastic sprue and green stuff. There are plastic ent and dryad bits in there too.



That's it for the moment, but I am working on some treekin, which will take the army up to about 2k points (with a proxied army standard bearer). I would like to include some fast elements, wild riders seem the optimum choice but I might also include a unit of glade riders for fluff sake. I also have more dryads and a few waywatchers in my unpainted pile. I am really tempted by the Gamezone wind riders and my ultimate aim is to have one or two of those leading the fast brigade. It's going to be a busy summer!

[thunderbow]

WOW! Those are some NEAT minis! Good job! And I especially like the wardancers, and the way you managed to apply that "earthy" pallete to all your models without making them look actually dirty. Furthermore, you restored my faith in the old wardancer models, which, if you ask me, are the best painted of the lot.
Hope to see some more!

[Necrisque]

Awesome.. the old wardancers are so awesome..
Such a great feel to this army, love it..

I love your dryads. do you mind sharing your recipe for them, i really like the colorscheme on them

[Beithir Seun]

I've seen these on your blog, and they're very impressive. It's interesting that you're picking up playing Wood Elves over Chaos Warriors, Vampires and Dwarfs, when most people seem to be going in the opposite direction!

How are your treekin coming along?

[Green Man]

I've seen these on your blog, and they're very impressive. It's interesting that you're picking up playing Wood Elves over Chaos Warriors, Vampires and Dwarfs, when most people seem to be going in the opposite direction!

How are your treekin coming along?

Cheers for the comments. It is interesting playing wood elves, that is exactly the right word. It takes a great deal more thought than an infantry horde and that's part of the appeal. Plus, I have always enjoyed the underdog army. But mostly I just like the figures.

Treekin are multiplying! Six are under construction at the moment, hopefully get some paint on them before the end of the month.

[dutchwarlord]

They look great! The runes on the dryads are really well done.

Could you post some more pictures of the treeman? (only if you want to!) I would love to see a picture from the front.

[Green Man]

Here you go. I found one on my blog, I will get some more next time I have the camera in action.

[Aemir]

It's the best Treeman I've ever seen.

[dutchwarlord]

Thank you!
If only the current gw treeman was looking like that....

[Billthesurly]

Ahhh yes, the good ole "Road Warrior" Wardancers. I fear I must confess to liking the new models more than the old but that's just my brand of pizza. The paint job is terrific. Basing and flocking ditto. Great conversion on the Treeman.

[Tenaka]

What have I been missing? Those Wardancer models are brilliant - ok, so they are a little 'ugly' in the face for elves in my eyes (the models - not the painting) but the big hair does it for me! Superb tattoos by the way. I think most people struggle with them but you've done them really well. As for the Treeman, outstanding, definitely the best conversion of that model that I've seen. Why oh why did GW not update the current Treeman model before putting it into resin.....

[unholyquake]

That Treeman is magnificent, best Treeman I've ever seen. I like the the pose and the colours really make it work.

[SagiDima]

Really great Treeman !!!

[Yuri]

Like my friend would say: "Old wardancers are old."

[The Forest Lord Daereth]

I'm thinking about starting up my Wood Elves this year actually, and your work has really inspired me. It's great! I love the use of HE archer parts on your glade guard, and your painting is spot on. I know it's not part of your painting, but I also love your profile picture. It's given me another idea too. Thanks for all the great work, and keep it coming!

[Green Man]

I got my treekin finished, so here's a picture of my "heavy troops".





And here's another angle on the treeman.



Thanks for all the comments to date, it's good to get feedback. I didn't realise that the old wardancers were thought of as ugly, I kind of like them. I still have quite a few of them which I might convert into wild riders. I need some fast elements in my army. I also need an army standard, which I will probably bash together from plastic bits. And I recently bought a noble on eagle, so that's waiting for some attention. Still plenty more to come.

[Rowena]

I really love the treekin. Old dryads and current dryad bits, right? I would *love* to be able to do something like this myself, both the awesome conversion (it looks so seemless!) and the superb painting.
And they fit just so well with the treeman... please keep them coming! .)