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These are Wood Elves from the GW box set of the same name. I knew at some point in my game I would need a squad of generic elves, so I picked up these guys. They're plastic and cast in one piece. As with many plastic minis (in my experience) there were significant seams, but I cleaned them up easily with a file and X-acto knife.
    The point of having these guys is that they're generic and look alike (which means I can paint them in an assembly-line fashion), but I needed to be able to tell them apart when I was done. Rather than making small detail changes on the minis (which might be hard to spot by me or players in the midst of battle, I picked four colors (red, green, blue, and gray) and marked all four sides of the base with 1 or 2 stripes of that color, so if I had to I could refer to them as "Red 2 drops his bow...." I haven't flocked the base of these minis yet and I'm not sure if I'm going to.
    The assembly-line painting method for these guys was: (1) Base coat in dark green. (2) Drybrush everything in a lighter green. (3) Paint the pants, bow glove, quiver, and broadbelt brown. (4) Paint hands and face fleshtone. (5) Paint buttons on broadbelt silver. (6) Wash face and hands with fleshtone ink. Done! It took me maybe two hours to paint all eight of these guys, mainly because they don't have a lot of detail and their color scheme is a very rangery green-and-brown.