Wood Elves - Woody Four

Nihel & Alvina Archer Units

Part Four - Mistwood Rangers & Glade Guard

Two units this week. I kinda leaked these out a bit earlier than planned this week. So there maybe a few of you who saw these once already, but I think they are good enough to see them again.

Mistwood Rangers Full Unit Look

First Nihel’s Mistwood Rangers these are in a fundamentally different colour palette to the rest of the army. I decided that dark browns with blue was a good choice to provide me with a third unit of Archers that can double up as Waywatchers if required.

Unit in Action

I also gave them a moon symbol and have named them the Mistwood Rangers to add that extra feel for when it’s required. This unit is mainly comprised of extra Skarloc’s Archers that I had left over, that unit was 20 strong, so this unit became naturally 12 once I added a command.

 

Unit Card

You will note the Champion ‘Nihel’ is one of the oldest Wood Elves ever made by citadel and if memory serves correctly somewhere around mid 80s. His proud look fits really well. Finally I have added a unit card for rules aligned to the Waywatchers in the Old-world rules set just released.

 

Alvina’s Glade Guard 

 

Next up we have Alvina’s Glade Guard. This unit is really special because it’s mainly not comprised of models from GW. I hunted high and low for nearly 10 years for Jes Goodwin models online, and then I found a company in the US who set up a kickstarter for these archers. When I saw them I knew they would fit perfectly in my army. This discovery was the inspiration for the army really having found them I decided now was the time to do it.

 

Glade Guard Action Shot

 

After I received these models I replaced the bow hand with some Oathmark Elves bows, who had also just been released, it never rains then it pours! The kickstarter came with three different poses which was replicated 4 times, but I was still missing a few. After all the aforementioned research I knew some more of the 80 Citadel Elves would fit perfectly so off to internet once more.

 

Command, Citadel Miniatures 

 

The command and a few others are Citadel models, with the whole unit painted in bright yellows this time, again the Champion ‘Alvina’ has a red hood and tooth theme. The finial detail here is the hand-painted banner, a simple feather this time.

 

Unit Card

 

Before I bid you a wonderful weekend above is the unit card for standard Glade Guard unit. Take care everyone.