The Decay Host of the Forest, an alternative take on wood elves

The night air within the clearing was deathly cold. The oak at its centre, ancient and knotted, had been prepared for the ritual. The symbols had been carved and the appropriate sacrifices made. The entrails of the unfortunates were now arranged in a fashion most pleasing to the arch mage of decay.

He hovered over the assembled group on insect like wings, a magnificent gift from his beneficent master, and settled on the ground in front of the great tree. A man stripped to his waste, his disturbingly pallid flesh rendered even brighter in the moon light, was struggling against the restraints binding him to the tree.
Reaching a necrotized hand into the folds of his fetid cloak the arch mage produced a seed. Small and seemingly unremarkable especially in a forest, this item represented the culmination of years of research and experimentation. He held it aloft and let the moonlight play across its surface. With the glimmer of the half light the arch mages multifaceted eyes picked up the intricate script that covered the surface of the seed.
Suddenly he leapt forward and descended upon the bound man ramming the seed into his mouth and forcing him to swallow. After a few moments of flurrying he retreated back to a safe distance.
With his back to the mighty tree the man drooled, his head lolling about. It seemed as if nothing would happen, another failure to sustain itself within the host. Then the screaming started.
Some of the group, mostly the newer members turned there heads away, some were sick. The screaming didn’t abate. A sickly, wet fleshy noise began to be punctuated by cracks like twigs snapping. The bound man writhed at his restraints, mewing about helplessly as branches began to protrude from his skin and his bulk suddenly drastically increased beyond all normal human proportions.

On the other side of the clearing the arch mage turned to his nearest acolyte, ‘it is finally a success, bring me the next subjects for their blessings’.

some of the Decay Guard (glade guard)



Arch Mage (spell weaver) sorry for blurry pics stupid camera.



his little creations, havent thought of a name yet, suggestions anyone? bound ones? i dunno. (counts as treekin)





few close ups

looking good mate and as always you never have the normal army do you

just sprayed them all, better get painting!

oh and ive also got to sculpt a giant fly like this

http://www.astronomican.com/showthread.php...hing-like-that)

to be my great eagle!

i like the fly, what about mandrakes as a name

could call em Foulbeasts - check out this site for evil name ideas: evil name generator

loving the nurgle winged guy.

Great work on the back ground and the models , where did you get the heads from ?

also how about Great stumps for a name

Looking good! Watching some Warhammer being played on Tuesday I thought about starting a Wood Elf force (somebody has a very nice WE army). Interesting take on it.

hey cheers for nice comments guys, the heads are max mini

http://www.maxmini.eu/store/

and omg i definetly reccomend, just very well cast, perfect size, and some great facial expressions. the smiley one is classic.

many good suggestions on names guys, i just dont know what to choose, during the painitng process im sure one will grow on me. or maybe a tree will grow on me. yeah its late and im tired. i mainly blame you now for reading my gibberish. lol.

anyway, ive done the first base colours on the ........(treekin) pics tomorrow.

been painting, here are some WIP shots







gettin there, a lot more to do though. lookin foward to first games as well!

Awesome and disgusting (in equal quantities)

You've given yourself quite a bit of work to do converting absolutely everything!

looking good mate, have you got a name yet

Very nice work , really like the white skin are you going to carry this on to the foot troops as well for their skin ?

they treekin are gonna be rotwood brutes and the glade guard will just be guard.

yeah lots to do, have got a tail on my dirigible now too!



any ideas how to sculpt it? ive dropped the fly idea for eagle and gone for this instead.

yeah lawrence im gonna have all the guard with pallid skin too. damn white , always white, why do i abuse myself so! lol

You and me both mate , you just have to think what the finished models will look like, that’s what keeps me going lol

Like the giant beast, what colour is he going to be ?