Dark Elf Champions – WHFB 4th Edition, 1995

Dark Elf Champions - WHFB 4th Edition, 1995

The next pair of completed models I have to share are this pair of Dark Elf Champions from the 4th Edition WHFB line. While I do like many in this series of models, sculpted by Aly Morrison and Colin Dixon, I still do prefer the previous 3rd edition-era models that were mostly sculpted by Bon Naismith – which were actually my first WHFB force, that I sadly sold backj in my yough, after deciding that I couldn’t afford to collect both Dark Elves and also Orcs & Goblins. I did keep a few of my favourites from that force, but as with my original Imperial Army/Squat force, I’m still a little sad that those models are long gone…

Dark Elf Champions - WHFB 4th Edition, 1995

Yep! There’s that flame motif again! There is at least a story behind this one. Back sometime in the 1990’s when I was a gaming regular at a store in town, some guy randomly came in and wanted a miniature painted, and wanted someone to paint it for him. I said I’d do it for whatever amount (I can’t recall, but you know, a decent bit more than the base model), and so he selected a Dark Elf off the shelf and I took it home. That Dark Elf is the below one, with the purple scheme.

Dark Elf Champions - WHFB 4th Edition, 1995

So I took the model home, painted it in a week, Marouda told me that she really liked the job I did on it, then I brought it back into the shop to hand it over. The guy never showed. I left it in the shop, and after 2 or three weeks, the guy still hadn’t turned up. So… I’d basically painted it for nothing.

Dark Elf Champions - WHFB 4th Edition, 1995

After a full month or so, I told the guy in the store that since the guy had abanoned the model, I was going to take it home myself and give it to Marouda, having put in the work to paint it and because she liked it. He wasn’t so keen, so I bought an identical model off the shelf and told him I’d paint that one for the guy in case he ever came back, and left my number.

Dark Elf Champions - WHFB 4th Edition, 1995

So in the end the guy never came back and I never got the second version finished. Years later I acquired the pointing model secondhand, and then started him in the same scheme which I’d decided on for my Kings of War Dark Elf force, which got waylaid for several years. Though this pair of models ended up on The Tray which meant that they finally got completed. The original, purple model remains basically just a display model for Marouda, but as it’s linked to the other two, I thought I’d add it to this post…

D&D Monster Manual 38: Wrath of Ashardalon Villains – Complete!

Dungeons and Dragons Wrath of Ashardalon Villains - Complete Painted Set

Similar to my recent post where I shared the completed Villains from the Castle Ravenloft adventure board game, here’s the set of baddies from Wrath of Ashardalon all together.

This is really a post where pictures tell more than the words, and besides – a good chgunk of these models have been shown over the last month or so as I worked my way through the set.

As with the Ravenloft post, if you’re perhaps new to this blog and interested in seeing more focused pics of any of the individual models, they can be found by browsing the “Dungeons and Dragons” category.

I’ll get pics of the combined Ravenloft and Ashardalon models posted up at some stage. Posting all my “D&D” mosters is a bit more difficult, since technically almost every fantasy model I own can legitimately be used in various flavours of D&D – so not only the mounds of Warhammer stuff, but also pretty much anything made by Reaper with all of their “Not-” models – so maybe I’ll just keep[ it to the official-ish ones when I eventually do take some pics of that nature?

I’ve barely scratched the models from The Legend of Drizzt at this point, so there won’t be an “all in” post for that or the other, subsequent games anytime soon…

As requested, I’m also throwing in a few “gaming” shots of Marouda and I playing through the Ashardalon campaign(s) over the last month or so, You can kind of see a progression by the models on display and the state of how painted they are.

Marouda’s Dragonborn characters – we played through using two characters each.

Encountering the Rage Drake boss! …

…and then Ashardalon joined in via an Adventure Card – this was before we re-read the rules and found that the Ashardalon Arrives! Card is supposed to be removed from the deck in most scenarios, making things quite a bit harder for ourselves when things like this kept happening when Ashardalon would drop into the other scenarios randomly and cause a bit of trouble. Then again, at that point we’d also not realised that the Ashardalon Breathes! card shouldn’t be in there but gets used in a special way once Ashardalon spawns, so those extra Ashardalon spawns were slioghtly less difficult, and when we drew the card otherwise it was effectively a turn free from random bad encounters.

We’ve now completed the Ashardalon game, and are playing through the Ravenloft game’s adventures. We did play through that campaign in its entirety with our former gaming group almost 10 years ago and back in that other dimension that we all used to live in before Pandemic. So I figured it wouldn’t hurt to run through those adventures again before moving to the Drizzt game.