Charge!!!!!!

Ha! My Silver Helms cavalry, a.k.a. in Sindarin as the Celebthol, or perhaps the Celebtholrim. I bought them because… uh, long story.

My friend Bobby was given a boxed set of Warhammer 40,000 Space Wolfs for his birthday, and I like model guys. He told me where they were sold – Games Workshop, and I went to check it out on one of my consequent organ lesson visits to Victoria.

Ooh, and I went straight for the shiny Warhammer fantasy elfs. Never mind the ones in spiky black armour, look at the ones in white! Actually, the models were pretty ugly overall, though they are improving. The box cover I liked the best was, really, the only one in the whole store worth looking at – the Silver Helms charging! This artwork is fairly trademark-ish for Warhammer. I like the horn blower with the silver hair.

It didn’t go over too well with me later when I found out that Games Workshop portrays their elfs as haughty, snobby, disdainful, proud, arrogant jerks. Tall, graceful, beautiful, skilled, and the most insufferable race in the Warhammer World – except for all the others, even the good races who are often jerks also, with the addition of being drunk, clumsy, selfish, stuck-up, ungenerous, etc. The best would probably be cold-blooded but logical Lizardmen, actually, or a good old honourable Bretonnian. No wonder their whole world is at war. They don’t even need the bad guys to rip each other to shreds.

So, lessee… I bought them one day, and then took them home and over the next very long while (about ten months) painted them with Tamiya colours because we didn’t have any Citadel paints yet. Dad showed me all the techniques to use, and they turned out very, very well. Unused to the idea of army collecting, I painted them similar to the box art, which means they have wierd eyes – Warhammer elfs are supposed to have such huge pupils their irises cover their whole eyes. Or something. I didn’t know that. I just painted the whole eye area blue.

In the background are Dad’s model house from the Warhammer Starter Set (Empire, Goblins, rulebook, rulers, dice, templates, and a house for scenery) and Kevin’s printed out barn. Also you can see Kevin’s knights and a couple of archers.

Stick around for the next nine days and meet the whole Celebtholrim gang!