High elf Eagle claw bolt throwers

Next out in my repainting project of my old High Elves are a couple of old bolt throwers.
Here we have them rebased on larger bases for the new rules.
I painted wood grains on the bolt throwers.
The crew are each pair painted slightly different.
When I was satisfied with the acrylic painting I gave them all a thin blue oil paint wash to make the miniatures slightly tint to blue in the shadows. It looks a little clumsy at some details but I like it overall.

High Elf armoured archers

 

I have painted some old armoured archers from my High Elf collection.
It was sort of fun to repaint the old plastic armoured archers but they are not that good looking, that is for sure.
I had some metal command miniatures and 4 old metal archers, these I really liked instead and having them mixed in the unit makes them look a little better.

Paintingwise I sort of speedpainted them but gave them a nice banner that really makes the unit pop.
I batch painted them in a block of 20 models, and a High Elf army really should have lots of archers so Im sure they will be included in future armies on the gaming table.

With 20 painted i could play them as three smaller units if I wanted to.

High Elf Silver helmes

I have painted a new unit of Silver Helmes for my High Elves.
I really really dislikes these miniatures. I bought them years ago and they have been in different boxes since then. It were their time to get some love. So I shaved away lots of strange decorations on their helmets, converted a new champion and gave them a banner.
For painting I wanted white and silver with a strong tint to turquoise and blue.

In my old collection I managed to scrape together seven of these ugly plastic Silver helmes.

But now when they are painted I dont hate them as mutch...

Australopithecus finds an watering hole, Palaeo diet AAR

We managed to play another game of Palaeo Diet the next day and as we had already occupied the dinner table our group of Australopithecines were hungry again...
The previous game can be found at: http://kampgruppe-engel.blogspot.com/2024/08/australopithecus-jungle-hunt-palaeo.html

In the next game I had placed a small watering hole in the jungle and our group were interested about any food that could be found there in.

We had 6 members of our group, 2 to each player.
I placed a small area of water in the middle surrounded by 4 terrain pieces for smaller critters to try to run and hide into if found in the water.
The critters can be found if a hunter makes a special search action after a succesful activation, finding a critter on a 6 if standing on the shore, or a 5+ if in the water (but with the risk of drowning as the standard rules).
I placed 2 other primates on the table to act on failed rolls. Lets see if they are gets interested when our group starts their search in the water.
The hunt would count as successfully if we find 6 counts of food and at least 4 members survive. 

The first two of our Australopithecines are searching the water.

More members of their group joins in.

A smaller bird have been find in the waters and are trying to run for the closest new hiding place.

The Australopithecus is trying to sneak and catch the birds.
In the background we can see another primate from an unknown species, but it are keeping some distance as of now.

A frog has been found and the hunt is on..

Mutch activity in the water. Food can certainly be found here.

With an activation of three ones I instead placed a apex predator in the jungle. Some way from our group but still maybe we should try to not splash as mutch in the water...

One member of our group is hunting a frog or a toad that is running to a new hiding place around the roots of an old tree.

The hunt for food continues.

A new small bird have been found, if we are careful maybe we can catch it...

We had found enough food for the entire tribe and we could leave the water.

The apex predator had shown some small interest in all the commotion but not enough to attack us, just close in somewhat.