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My wife is building her Sylvaneth army and is also excited about the new models that are coming out (especially The Everqueen). She's deciding between two different schemes for the army, which is basically all treefolk.

Option 1:

All Autumn colors

Option 2:

Durthu - Winter
Treeman Ancient - Autumn
Treeman - Summer
Queen Alarielle - Spring
Dryads - Winter
Kurnoth Hunters - Summer
Drycha Hamadreth - Autumn
Tree Revenants - Spring

Option 1 would be more cohesive and "one" army look while option 2 would have the idea that multiple areas of treefolk have banded together to fight. I'd love to get some opinions on which one you all like!

I think sticking with one seasons will look better.

I also am a wood elves/ Sylvaneth army collector. I would stick with one theme.

Although i would not go with winter as the theme as a whole, unless you really like brown.

I like bright colors for my Sylvaneth.

I say go winter, winter is beautiful and you can do white green brown and rot or some flowers just breaking threw.

when you can't decide on a colour scheme, I find it's best to do a couple test pieces, and see how I like them.

That would also let you see the different seasonal scheme idea against each other, and make it easier to tell if you'd like it (or she would anyway) over the whole army.

I'm inclined to say a mix of seasons, and if you did do that, you'd probably want to keep a single cohesive base, which would need to be more neutral - so not matching each seasonal scheme, for instance. Still, a forest theme, just maybe a bit more muted. That would help tie the whole army together.

If you did one seasonal scheme, you could simply match bases with the season.

Anyway just some thoughts!

Just in case you haven't seen Duncan's tutorial for Durthu...




I would take the scheme shown in the video and adapt it for the rest of your Sylvanethi.