Check it out! Actually hobby progress. How long has it been since I've posted that?
Don't answer that. It's a knowable thing and it's deeply embarrassing.
Anyway, as you can see, I'm working on getting all of the commanders sorted for my Lothlorien army. Sadly, for some reason, Games Workshop makes a highly limited selection of Lothlorien commanders. The resin Galadhrim commanders are all archers, even though Galadhrim companies can have spears, glaives, or bows (and, the gamist in me wants to point out, Galadhrim shooting pales in comparison with the prowess of the ordinary Sylvan irregulars in Galadriel's army and even if you did want to field Galadhrim archers, you probably aren't going to bother with banners or horns, since their effect is to make the unit faster - not something archers care about).
As far as the Wood Elf commanders, the kit from GW only comes with a banner bearer and a captain - no hornblower - and both of them have extremely bendy metal weapons that can be hard to straighten out.
The extra captains I need for my Galadhrim were easy to sort out: I just assembled one dude with no helmet and we'll call him a captain. The hornblowers needed a little more surgery to fit into their units, replacing the bow with a glaive or a spear, snipping off the quiver (you can still see part of it on the glaive-wielding hornblower's back, now representing a sheath - on the spear-elf, it's been whittled down and then obscured with the shield slung across his back) and resculpting the hair underneath. For my Wood Elf commanders, I simply replaced the banner pole with some brass rod, clipped off the banner bearer's bendy glaive and replaced it with one from the plastic kit, and robbed a Frostgrave sprue for a suitably neat sword for my Wood Elf captain. A bunch of Wood Elf sentinels, two of which have musical instruments, are on their way to provide me with an appropriately modeled hornblower.
Overall, I'm quite happy with these kits. They're quite distinctive and well made, even if the gear is limited! My next plan is to wait until the aforementioned Sylvan hornblowers and my movement trays come in before taking a big group photo and then getting priming.
And after the priming comes the painting!
