Tale of OG Gamers - High Elves

[cunningmatt]

Move along, move along, much like this year's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here line up there's nothing to see here, bar Gillian McKeith screaming and I don't even have that.

Hopefully normal service will be resumed next week!

[fatolaf]

My monitor / keyboard breathes a sigh of relief at the prospect of a week without wine / food being laughed up/out all over it....

[cunningmatt]

Sunday 21st November

Way hay! Cover your keyboard and get a wipe clean screen Ol, I'm back (that sounds like this is going to be a pornographic post – check the previous post and you'll see what I mean). Yes apologies that it has been three weeks since the last rambling, hope you've not missed me too much. Sadly the real world reared its ugly head (that is if you can call filming celebrities driving a mobility scooter round a race track the real world) and I was all consumed in a fiery ball of children's television. But now I have been reborn like a Phoenix from the flames. Actually I'm quite knackered really, but let's get on and tell you what's been happening in the last 3 weeks.

I've finally come up with the name for the Ellyrian Reavers, those of new to the blog might not know that I call all my units after classic children's TV shows – why is an entirely different question that we shan't go into. Anyway inspired by the horse theme of the Ellyrian Reavers, they are apparently the fastest horses in all of Ulthuan, even fastest than the fastest milk float in the West – remember that song?! Or is it just my mind. Anyway I do remember a classic moment from my children's TV youth when Blue Peter had a horse, and we all got to vote on it's name (and presumably they just made up a choice, but the days of TV were much more innocent then), and I distinctly recall the horse was called Jet because it was black – although nowadays something that is black on TV simply reminds Louis Walsh of a young Lenny Henry! Blue Peter was an odd programme, very much something your parents wanted you too watch, and something that at the time I felt I had to watch – but I'm not sure why. Things I particularly remember are the appeals, when there was a bizarre shaped totaliser wheeled into the studio, and we, as a nation, had to collect 400,000 aluminium cans or something to send a tractor to Africa, it almost doesn't seem worth the effort now, a couple of quid in a charity box is the most I can manage now. And then there were the bloody summer excursions – god they were boring, 4 weeks of VTs from Lithuania or wherever they'd chosen to go this year. I didn't enjoy, I'd much rather have seen Mark Curry knock the head off a LEGO man instead (a much repeated clip that was the Lulu the Elephant of my Blue Peter years). Presenters wise the first I vividly remember was the Mark Curry, Yvette Fielding and Caron Keating years – Mark Curry has virtually disappeared off the earth, though bizarrely I did know someone at University who was also called Mark Curry who had ginger hair – what are the chances? According to Wikipedia, which is the same as saying I've just made up, Mark Curry later went onto present the final series of Catchphrase, and also appeared once in Last of the Summer Wine, who knew? Yvette Fielding went onto disturb the nation in a series of programmes involving her in a dark room screaming, you'll have to decide amongst yourselves whether that's better than showing children how to make a pencil holder in the shape of Jim Davidson out of a toilet roll and some sticky back plastic. Caron Keating's career hasn't gone that far, but in fairness you can't blame her for that. Then there was John Leslie and Anthea Turner – enough said. And I think I left it, around the Richard Bacon and Konnie Huq period, who is now annoying everyone with on The Xtra Factor – not that, that programme needs any more excuse to be annoying. Anyway on that note I'll leave Blue Peter, except to say that my Ellyrian Reavers will now be called Peter's Blue Reavers, see what I've done there – clever isn't it?! Lots of effort there!

So onto this month, 21-days in, I better tell you what's been happening then. Looking at my current army I'm going to need a couple more Shadow Warriors to make that unit legal and of course I need a general, in fact all together now: #I need a hero, I'm holding out for a hero til the end of night, he's got to be strong, and he's got to be there and he's got to be up for a fight# apologies now if the rest of your day is spent humming Bonnie Tyler songs. But the point is my army needs a leader, and much as I'd love to paint up my Lord on Griffon from the Island of Blood box set, he weighs in at somewhere in the region of 450 points. So unless I do some extreme lying, or start waterboarding the other people taking on the OG Gamers challenge (if they haven't all abandoned it), then I'll need a hero level character. This leaves me with two options, a Mage or a Noble (again a Dragon Mage is out of my points league at present, sadly), which was it to be? My existing High Elf army is missing a Noble on foot, so that was a temptation, but I quite fancied a Mage (in a non-sexual way of course), because I was thinking of tactics – I know, anyone who's played me will be stunned by this, usually tactics isn't part of my thinking, which means that beating me at Warhammer is kind of like beating a 4-year old child at chess, it doesn't really count. But with my tactics hat on I decided that a Mage would be more useful, as with the exception of my charging Reavers nothing in my army could muster more than Strength 3, so I felt a Mage rather than a Noble would be more useful at bashing tougher targets from afar – and everyone seems to moan about how good magic is at present, so I'm sure I'll prove that theory wrong soon enough.

So for the Mage, I'll be painting up the Mage from the Island of Blood box set, normally I'd decorate the bases of my heroes but there isn't any room on the Mage because of the whispy tendrils of magic – technical term. So here we go this is where we are at Stage 1:

Stage 1 – High Elf Mage





Base: Khemri Brown
Whispy Tendrils of Magic: Deneb Stone
Leather: Scorched Brown
Robes: 1:1 Skull White : Astronomacian Grey
Silver Metal: Chainmail
Gold Metal: Tin Bitz
Flesh: Dwarf Flesh
Yellow Trim: Iyanden Dark Sun
Blue Robe: 1:1 Enchanted Blue : Ice Blue
Hair: Deneb Stone

So far looking good, just 3 more stages to do in the next week!! Gulp!

Now foolishly at the beginning of this month I thought I would have loads of time just to paint a mage and a couple of Shadow Warriors, how wrong I was?! So I started painting a few more projects to keep me amused, none of these actually come under my Tale of OG Gamers army, so technically they shouldn't be here, but given the crap I've rambled on about and no one has so far moaned, I feel you've missed your chance to complain that I'm now talking other elements of Warhammer. Sadly I should also point out none of these pictures are actually funny, sorry if the truth be known I have to be funny at work and so am exhausted of being funny, additionally I think I set the bar too high with this blog at the start and I can't keep up. I'll do my best to get back on form over the next few weeks before I start losing audience numbers faster than Daybreak.

Alith Anar

I fancied painting up a special character (I know boo, hiss, boo at me – special characters are broken blah, blah, blah – don't care), so thought I'd look at Alith Anar. Just to clarify again, he's not part of my OG Gamers army!





Stage 1

Base: Khemri Brown
Stone: Charadon Granite
Leather: Scorched Brown
Robes: 1:1 Skull White : Astronomacian Grey
Cloak: Chaos Black
High Elf Silver Metal: Chainmail
High Elf Gold Metal: Tin Bitz
Flesh: Dwarf Flesh
Dark Elf Silver Metal: Bolt Gun Metal
Dark Elf Gold Metal: Tin Bitz
Hair: Scorched Brown
Yellow Trim: Iyanden Dark Sun
Blue Trim: 1:1 Enchanted Blue : Ice Blue
Wood: Khemri Brown




I modelled under Alith's feet I pile of slate (from the Warhammer basing kit) and some strewn bits of Dark Elf, a broken sword and head (modelled on a longer neck with green stuff) – bits taken from the Dark Elf Spearmen set I believe. This way he looks like he's been on a murderous killing spree – always nice.

High Elf Way Stone

Also started painting up my High Elf way stone model, from Forge World, I do like the discarded Elven horn and helmet at the base of the model I have to say:




Stage 1

Base: Khemri Brown
Stone: Charadon Granite
Way Stone: Calthan Brown
Silver Metal: Chainmail
Gold Metal: Tin Bitz

And here you can see it to scale:



I must hurry up and finish this, as a number of my friends have commented at present it looks like a butt plug – I think this maybe has something to do with the fact that some of my friends are rather unsavoury. Anyway on that disturbing note, I'll promise to do more painting for next week (need to as nearly December) and I'm aiming to get a little bit festive – you have been warned!!

[maelzch]

Entertaining as always mate! Made me realise how far behind I am this month!

[fatolaf]

Caron Keating's career hasn't gone that far, but in fairness you can't blame her for that.

There goes my cereal.....

[Mike]

On account of her being dead.

there goes my coffee!

[cunningmatt]

Monday 29th November

Panic stations everyone! Yes there's only one more day of November left (hope your moustache looks good), where has it gone?! And of course this leaves just 24 hours to finish the mad painting for this month's High Elf models – it's only three models this month but it seems to be killing me – I blame real life, isn't it shit?

Now I have to confess part of the blame for my lack of painting has to fall fully on ITV1, for the abomination that is I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! It's a truly horrendous show full of all the most vile and twisted elements of modern day society – and for some reason I love it. I know, I am ashamed, every middle class bone in my body is revolted at the thought, but for some reason it falls into my guilty pleasures category, and boy what a guilty pleasure it is. After watching it, I feel dirty so very dirty, as if I need to go and have a wash to remove the feelings of chav from my body, worried that if I don't eventually it will build up to sufficient levels that I go and shop at Primark and Poundland, start wearing Burberry, show off my arse crack and smash up bus shelters. It's a slippery slope. Incidentally I have once shopped at Poundland, in my student days, to play the brilliant game "what's the shittest thing you can buy for a pound", where everyone has five minutes in the store to find the tackiest thing you can buy, and with all your purchases you then decide what's the worst thing someone bought (incidentally getting a trolley out for a pound doesn't count – it was in last month's Poundland FAQs). Whilst in said store I did once genuinely hear someone say "I can't believe this is only a pound!" – I think they may have been planted in the store to wander round saying that to drum up business, or they were filming a Poundland commercial and I hadn't noticed. The other thing I noticed was the exciting competition for Father's Day entitled Poundland Dad where you had to write in twenty words or less why your dad deserved the title Poundland Dad – I suspect many of the entries were sent to social services. And if your dad won this "prestigious" title? Well to compound their misery they also won twenty pounds to spend at Poundland, or twenty things as it's also known. When did competitions become so life changing?!

Back to I'm A Celebrity..., everything about this show is wrong and how wrong can be summed in one word "sponsorship" in that the show is sponsored by Iceland. Now call me a snob, but there isn't anything about Iceland that makes me want to go and shop there. The only plus side is they've finally seen sense and got rid of Kerry Katona – all it took was alcoholism, drug-taking revelations, full-scale nervous breakdown and awkward appearance on This Morning – who says fame is fickle? In a bid to go more upper class, Iceland have recently wooed in one of the Nolans and Jason Donovan, I don't know why they just don't go the whole hog and have the face of Iceland as Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot? Sure they did bad things in their time, but who's going to argue with a frozen bag of prawns for a pound, as advertised by The Third Rich? It is particularly odd that Gillian McKeith is in this year's series, as often the Iceland sponsorship features one of those large party food tables that looks remarkably like table full of food that the fat people eat in an average week on You Are What You Eat – you know the bit just before they're introduced to a diet of pumpkin seeds and elderflowers. All we can hope is that Iceland goes the way of it's namesake country, and goes bankrupt, though hopefully without all our council's savings and without requiring a seven billion pound bail out from George Osbourne – though think of all the party food you could buy for 7 billion pounds. Yum. Though you know your bowels would never be the same again.

I have many problems with the overall concept of I'm A Celebrity..., it's kind of like all other reality TV shows in reverse, rather than unknown people becoming famous, this features famous people trying to avoid becoming unknown. There's something so gratuitous about the depths they're prepared to sink to for this fame that it's very uncomfortable, but somehow the show embraces this, and by wearing it on it's chest it's ok, I think. I'm not sure how I feel about the way animals are used in the show either, is it right that 500 cockroaches are killed in order to entertain me? And what about that kangaroo bouncing around without a penis so some celeb could chow down on it, in a horrific televised blow job – doesn't seem right somehow. However the ever bubbly charm of Ant & Dec save it for me, I don't know what it is about them, but whatever show they present they come out of it smelling of roses, I'm sure if they presented a show in which children were routinely smashed round the head with baseball bats, the nation would still enjoy their Geordie charms – even if it isn't a patch on SM:TV Live.

I cast my eye over this year's celebrities – where celebrities has been said in such large inverted commas, that I think I could even be included in this category and not be the least famous one, after all I once was custard pied on ITV1 – probably my highest accolade. Here's a quick look at the rundown in "no particular order", actually it's alphabetical order, for those who care:

Linford Christie – Former athletics runner and Olympic Gold Medal winner, I still remember my parents' outrage when he was disqualified from the final of the 100 metres in the 1996 Atlanta Games for two false starts (and they say I know nothing about sport). Apparently Louis Walsh described him as looking like a young Lenny Henry.

Kayla Collins – According to Wikipedia she is an American Playboy model, so I'm sure she we can expect a lot of deep philosophical comments from her, and absolutely not gratuitous "foaming up" when showering in the waterfall.

Jenny Éclair – There's lots that annoys me about Jenny Éclair, I happen to know for a fact that in real life she's a particularly vile bitch. Sadly I'm warming to her in the jungle, because she's actually vaguely amusing. There's still time for her head to be ripped off by an alligator, we can still hope, and then I won't feel bad for finding her slightly funny.

Britt Ekland – One of the many actors/actresses I've heard off, but probably couldn't tell you what she's actually done, but my cultural knowledge is disturbingly bad. Apparently she's from Sweden, so presumably she was supplied in multiple parts with an Alan Key, and doesn't look quite like the picture on the box.

Sheryl Gasgoine – Not really famous, are you? Just married someone famous, perhaps if I marry newsreader Fiona Bruce I can be on next year's I'm A Celebrity... not that I wish to be, I want to point that out just in case the producers get desperate.

Alison Hammond – Former Big Brother contestant, in the days when I watched Big Brother thinking it was a fun little show, how wrong I was. She now presents on This Morning, though rarely is she confused for Holly Willoughby. She seems like a perfectly nice and lovely person, but being fat all women will bitch about, all straight man will regard with utter contempt and sadly she's doesn't wear enough in the sequins department for gay men to embrace her.

Nigel Havers – Nigel used to be considered a well respected actor, I suspect he may have turned up on this programme accidentally, perhaps believing it was the casting call for a Shakespearean drama. Any way he came to his senses at some point and left before he could leave over the bizarre rope bridge of fireworks – like a poor version of Sydney Harbour bridge on New Year's Eve, the exploding fireworks doing their best to drive the animals of the jungle into a murderous rampage. Nah I'm sure they've thought of that. No chance an outraged pack of scorpions would attack the camp – or is there?

Dom Jolly – Once upon a time Dom was very Jolly, everyone loved his giant phone and hidden camera stuff. Then everyone else copied it, and Channel 4 wasn't really sure what to do with him. He seems vaguely amusing, and is enjoying his spy role in the latest challenge, perhaps a role in Spooks beckons, perhaps not.

Gillian McKeith – There isn't much I can add to what has already been said about Gillian in the last few weeks, other than who'd of thought that her examining people's poo wouldn't be the weirdest thing that she's ever done on TV? Cleverly she's entered the programme despite having a phobia of everything on the show, presumably when she's finally voted off she'll scream and faint at the feet of Ant & Dec, before a tender VT in which she explains she has a terrible phobia of people from Newcastle (she just got voted off this didn't happen, shame)

Lempit Opik – Very few people's CVs read dated TV weather girl, worried about asteroids, dated Romanian annoying singer, got voted out of Parliament... so by those standards his appearance on this show isn't actually weird. I'm going to bet a tenner that he will actually get married to Prince William, at which point the creature we believe to be Kate Middleton will rip off her face mask at the alter to reveal the former Liberal Democrat MP staring back. Still we get a Bank Holiday, so it will be worth it.

Shaun Rider – Grumpy man from the Happy Mondays which is rather ironic. Anyone noticed he looks like on of Peter Kay's characters from Phoenix Nights?

Aggro Santos – Who? No seriously, who? I've been watching the show for two weeks and still don't know. I think he may have snuck in whilst no one was looking.

Stacey Soloman – Proof if ever proof was needed that reality TV has become incestuous, so desperate for famous people have we become, that people who are famous for failing to be famous are now on the show. I believe the woman has escaped from some kind of government compound – fortunately her voice is grating on me slightly less than last year when she annoyed me on The X Factor.

And that's pretty much all the I'm A Celebrity... I can stand. I'd turn over to ITV2 to get more but I'm not a complete sicko you understand. I still like to believe I am middle class, and ITV2 is a level to which I will not lower myself. Well except for a repeat of All Star Family Fortunes.

Enough ITV crap, but before I get onto This Week in Pictures, just a quick time to tell you I have named my wizard Wizbit, again after another children's television classic. For those of you who don't remember Wizbit he was a large yellow cone shaped wizard with slightly shifty eyes. He inhabited a place called Puzzleopolis, just outside Croydon, where he had to solve puzzles in order to learn more about humans – as you do. The world was populated by various magical creatures (magical in the conjuring sense rather than the fantastical) consisting of giant playing cards, large rabbits and Paul Daniels – no really Paul Daniels. You may remember there was a period in the history of light entertainment when people liked Paul Daniels, and actually watched his shows, shocking I know. But The Paul Daniels Magic Show ran for 15 years on primetime BBC 1, and he had classic gameshows Every Second Counts and Wipeout – remember these from the days when quiz shows were quiz shows and people didn't bloody cry all the time. This was long before the days when having Paul Daniels on a show was the running joke it is now, long before he was voted off in Week 2 of Strictly and Week 1 of X Factor: Battle of the Stars (remember that shite?). The show also featured a villain called Professor Doom – well wouldn't you be annoyed if you had a name like that, who tried to stop Wizbit all the time (do you think he was Mr Doom, who did a PhD then post-doctorate?). Judging by this Youtube episode he seems to have been played by 80s Snooker legend Willie Thorne, who knew?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVf7wNnVbI0

Anyway as a child I certainly liked the show, I seem to remember collecting tokens from Hula Hoops packets and sending off for a Paul Daniels and Wizbit magic kit, don't think I was ever any good at it, but I've since realised magicians are generally a bit creepy so it's probably for the best. Hopefully my mage looks slightly better than an upturned yellow cone with legs, but that's what it's going to be called anyway.

Now it is time for This Week in Pictures...

Tuesday

After a bit of painting, it's only three models after all, finally made it to Stage 2 of the High Elf Mage:

Stage 2 – Wizbit, the Mage




Base: *NO CHANGE*
Whispy Tendrils of Magic: Layered with 1:1 Deneb Stone : Bleached Bone, then pure Bleached Bone
Leather: Washed with Badab Black
Robes: Layered with 1:1 [1:1 Skull White : Astronomacian Grey] : [2:1 Skull White: Astronomacian Grey] which I think is 3:2 Skull White : Astronomacian Gray if I've done the maths right!* Then layered with 2:1 Skull White: Astronomacian Grey
Silver Metal: Washed with Badab Black
Gold Metal: Rebased with Shining Gold
Flesh: Layered with 1:1 Dwarf Flesh : Elf Flesh, then pure Elf Flesh
Yellow Trim: Layered with Golden Yellow
Blue Robe: Layered with 1:1 [1:1 Enchanted Blue : Ice Blue] : Ice Blue (which I think is 1:3 Enchanted Blue : Ice Blue)* then layered with pure Ice Blue.
Hair: Washed with Badab Black

* - if you compare this to the painting guides of the regular High Elf models you'll see in most case I've added an intermediate colour between the normal Stage 1 and  Stage 2 colours. Generally I find with characters and larger models this is worth the effort, I usually just mix the Stage 1 base colour 1:1 with the Stage 2 midcoat colour for this intermediate colour. So in the case of the Blue Robes, usually I'd basecoat 1:1 Enchanted Blue : Ice Blue then midcoat pure Ice Blue, however for the character I've mixed these two colours for an extra stage. As I'm mixing my premade mixes I couldn't tell you the exact mix, but hopefully my Maths A-Level hasn't let me down and that's right. The same has done in Stage 3 as well.

Stage 2 – Alith Anar




Base: *NO CHANGE*
Stone: Drybrush Adeptus Battlegrey, then drybrush Codex Grey
Leather: Washed with Badab Black
Robes: Layered with 1:1 [1:1 Skull White : Astronomacian Grey] : [2:1 Skull White: Astronomacian Grey], then layered with 2:1 Skull White: Astronomacian Grey
Cloak: Highlighted with 2:1 Chaos Black : Codex Grey, then highlighted 1:1 Chaos Black : Codex Grey
High Elf Silver Metal: Washed with Badab Black
High Elf Gold Metal: Rebased with Shining Gold
Flesh: Layered with 1:1 Dwarf Flesh : Elf Flesh, then pure Elf Flesh
Dark Elf Silver Metal: Washed with Badab Black
Dark Elf Gold Metal: Rebased with Burnished Gold
Hair: Drybrushed with Bestial Brown
Yellow Trim: Layered with Golden Yellow
Blue Trim: Layered with 1:1 [1:1 Enchanted Blue : Ice Blue] : Ice Blue then layered with pure Ice Blue.
Wood: Layered with Graveyard Earth

Wednesday

Any one been to Sainsbury's recently? Well you've probably been to some kind of supermarket recently, and maybe they do this too. At the end of the till when you're receipt is printed off there's a sort of lucky fruit machine that prints money off vouchers – and if you've been a good boy (or girl) you get a voucher printed off for you. I think you need a Nectar card (or equivalent) for this, so don't get upset if you aren't getting them. In theory these are supposed to be based on your regular purchases so you get useful tokens, however having got some for Tampons and Dog Food (I don't have a dog or a vagina so neither are particularly useful), I suspect the system may be slightly flawed. Sometimes you might get money off things you actually buy, Frosted Shreddies seem to be a favourite of mine that come up a lot, but generally you get crap ones in the form of "100 extra Nectar Points if you spend £50 on your next shop", knowing fully well that my average shop is a lot less than £50, I won't fall so easily for your propaganda Sainsbury's. However on Wednesday I struck the jackpot, with this token:



Surprisingly there is no catch, all I have to do is turn up with my token and I will be given a 50g box of Lindor for free, no minimum spend nothing. If you haven't had Lindor I do have to recommend them, they are amazing, melt in the mouth, succulent chocolate – basically orgasmic. I am a bit of a chocolate fiend, well it is my only vice, I don't drink that much, don't smoke and at present seem to have sex about as often as Bubbles the Chimp since the death of Michael Jackson, so Lindor it is for me. Rock and roll. A 50g box is 4 delicious Lindor balls, so a reasonable treat from Sainsbury's. I wonder what would happen if Shakeaway did a Lindor flavoured milkshake, mmmmmm, really probably think about such things in public – might get arrested again.

Thursday

Went to Sainsbury's for my free Lindor. They'd run out. My mood is akin to that of the North Korean border.

Friday

Went to Sainsbury's for my free Lindor. They had some.



Matt is happy – bugger this is turning into Facebook.

Saturday

I am not a victim of marketing, no never, never a victim of marketing, adverts and promotions rarely sway me, if at all. But I may have bought 2 of these in Sainsbury's:



2x 337g boxes of Lindor, about 50 balls, but they were on special offer and are very nice, and would make an excellent Christmas present for me. Cough cough, hint hint. Maybe I could try taking them to Shakeaway and see if they'll blend them for me. Hmmmm.

Sunday

Despite putting on 4 metric tonnes in weight and needing a hydraulic platform to get out of the house I managed to get to Stage 3, a fine achievement given my fat fingers can't even pick up a paint brush (or anything smaller than a Lindor ball).

Stage 3 – Wizbit, the Mage




Base: *NO CHANGE*
Whispy Tendrils of Magic: Layered with 1:1 Bleached Bone : Skull White, then pure Skull White
Leather: Highlighted with Bestial Brown
Robes: Layered with 1:1 [2:1 Skull White : Astronomacian Grey] : Skull White then layered with slightly watered down Skull White
Silver Metal: Highlighted with Mithril Silver
Gold Metal: Washed with Gryphonne Sepia and Highlighted with 5:1 Shining Gold : Mithril Silver
Flesh: Washed with watered down Ogryn Flesh
Yellow Trim: Layered with 1:1 Golden Yellow : Sunburst Yellow, then pure Sunburst Yellow.
Blue Robe: Layered with 1:1 [Ice Blue] : [1:1 Ice Blue : Skull White] then layered with pure 1:1 Ice Blue : Skull White, then washed watered down Asuyrmen Blue*
Hair: Highlighted with Bleached Bone

* - if time allows, and there isn't other tripe to rabbit about I hope to talk more about finishing details in a later blog. No promises though.

Stage 3 – Alith Anar




Base: *NO CHANGE*
Stone: Drybrush Fortress Grey
Leather: Highlighted with Bestial Brown
Robes: Layered with 1:1 [2:1 Skull White : Astronomacian Grey] : Skull White then layered with slightly watered down Skull White
Cloak: Highlighted with Codex Grey
High Elf Silver Metal: Highlighted with Mithril Silver
High Elf Gold Metal: Washed with Gryphonne Sepia and Highlighted with 5:1 Shining Gold : Mithril Silver
Flesh: Washed with watered down Ogryn Flesh
Dark Elf Silver Metal: Highlighted with Chainmail
Dark Elf Gold Metal: Washed with Gryphonne Sepia and Highlighted with 5:1 Burnished Gold : Mithril Silver
Hair: Drybrushed with Snakebite Leather
Yellow Trim: Layered with 1:1 Golden Yellow : Sunburst Yellow, then pure Sunburst Yellow.
Blue Trim: Layered with 1:1 Ice Blue : Skull White
Wood: Layered with 1:1 Graveyard Earth : Bleached Bone, then pure Bleached Bone

Here's a couple of detail shots, for detail fans:




And I also finished the remaining 2 models of Raven's Shadow Warriors, they were painted in exactly the same way as last months so I won't bore you with the details again (there's enough today already to bore you, so you'll have to have a look back in the blog):



I'm particularly pleased with the Shadow Walker, which as you may remember was the free model from White Dwarf 180ish, ages ago for Mordheim, here's a couple of other shots of him sweeping his cloak:




I'm reasonably pleased that he still looks High Elfy despite very little High Elf colours (particularly white) showing on him.

That's pretty much it for today, other than to say it's end of the month so it must be time for What's In the Box. You know how it works select a box from 1 – 36 (3 & 25 have already gone so don't vote for these as your vote won't count but you may still be charged, and you'd be a fool), Cheryl the plant will randomly draw a box from the suggestions and will open it up and you can see what's inside. Get your votes in by midnight on Friday the 3rd of December, as that's when the draw (or should that be drawer – get it?!) will occur.

It's going to be busy week for "The Tale of OG Gamers – High Elves" as tomorrow, I should be posting again provided I get the finishing touches to Wizbit done. And then on Wednesday something brand new, very exciting, and perhaps a little bit disturbing happens on these pages – you don't want to miss it (though you could just catch up with the updates any time in the future really if you do miss it, but that doesn't sound very showbiz does it). Right back to painting just 24 hours of November left!!

[maelzch]

Another very funny and lengthy update mate! Ol better not be eating when he reads this!

I'm a little behind with my stuff for this month, but will see how I do!

[cunningmatt]

Another very funny and lengthy update mate! Ol better not be eating when he reads this!

Cheers mate, the ramble has returned! I do try and warn Ol in fairness.

I'm a little behind with my stuff for this month, but will see how I do!

Good luck, need some people to play the first 600 points against.

[maelzch]

I'm gonna paint like a nutter tomorrow night, so we'll see how I fare!