This competition is quickly drawing to its close and thus we find ourselves in the penultimate month of this hobby marathon. May has been crammed with all sorts of projects that have demanded my attention and with all that I had to do, I was very happy to get done what I did. That being said, it was a bit of a cheat as I did a Legendary Unit (the Windborne Cavalry) and a character (a mounted elven mage) which in all honesty is not the largest model count, but it is an essential part of my army build so I’ll take what I can get!
The biggest difficulty of these units was the mini bonsai trees that I had to sculpt from green stuff on either side of the stairs on the Windborne’s base. That took a lot of time and patience to make sure it looked good. Just like with the forest shamblers in my army from my March update, I took paper clips to form the skeleton of the trees. I then pressed the green stuff onto the paper clips and poked and pulled it with some dentist’s tools until they looked like trees (it’s not that detailed of a process, just keep pushing at the green stuff until it looks right, I promise!). Once that hardened I painted the tree and placed them into a stack of Mantic 20mm bases that I glued on top of each other to create their stone pots (using more green stuff to sculpt the brickwork on the outside of said pots). Once everything was put together and painted, I glued the cherry blossom flock to the empty branches using superglue, and viola!
I like the unit as a whole. I think my mage is a bit lackluster, but the model itself wasn’t overly inspiring to begin with, in the end I’m just glad to have a model to represent my mage. With that in mind, here is the finished product!
So, with everything being said and done, looks like I finished up all 3 possible points.
1 point for painting a new unit
1 point for basing a new unit
1 point for completing >250 points in my new army (170 for the Windborne, and 90 for a mounted mage= 260 points).
I’m looking forward to next month and the last entry in this competition, which I must thank for helping me to get this army up and running, I don’t know that I would have done it this quickly had I been left to my own devices.
