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Making An Army for Summer

A happy new year to all!

My life has been oh so toxic these past few weeks with work. A whole new channel brand design is cooking in the pot and I've found very few time in between to game and tinker with my toys. The few hours I did spend painting were devoted to starting a new HOTT army, one I've dubbed as the Army of Summer. The first few elements are made from Mageknight figures I bought from a fellow Filipino gamer in Cebu. I didn't bother to reprime these but went ahead and painted over the previous paint job.

So here are the first few recruits:



The elves above will be Shooters. The downside with prepainted minis is that you get very little or no pose variations. I made do with fudging around with the bow directions.



These elves however look more savage and with two poses only, I opted for a more "irregular" look. I guess I'll use these as Warbands.

The idea for an Army of Summer came from Jim Butcher's Summer Knight, one of the earlier volumes in his Harry Dresden series. More on this army soon.:)

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  1. adeptgamerJanuary 11, 2011 at 5:00 AM

    Looks like a really solid army start! I would fear to face so many shooters. Of course, I have a habit of loosing so my fear might be displaced lol!

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