Duelling Gamer's the second month of awesome, and oh a new Army Book this month let the Trees rejoice.

Here we go with the second month of my Autumn Wood Elves.
Some major changes to my plan has occurred, in no small part due to the release of the New Wood Elves Army Book, I am picking up my copy on Saturday and as such I have modified my original painting goals for this month, with my $100 retail for this month plus the $40 saved from last month my allowable spend $140  and with this I purchased the following

1. What is now the previous edition Metal Treeman , which I have dubbed"Aldertalon" for $26.90 from Ebay saving $69.10 of real money but counting as $96.00 towards the challenge because luckily the new plastic kit is still priced at $96.00 Australian retail.

This now leaves $44 towards June where I will probably spend it all on some of the new Wood Elves units, I do not want to rush into any impulse buying (which if I am honest I am very very prone to do.), until I can get a copy of the new army book, did I mention it was this Saturday and contemplate how the new rules and units will affect the way I had planned to build my army.

In the meantime it means that the Treeman is a safe bet, as I can not honestly at the moment see a Wood Elves army without at least one Treeman in their list. I am also hoping that the Spellweaver on Unicorn is a more viable option in the new book, as I have an idea running around in my head of one with dark magic in a unit of Wildriders, and paint the unicorn in a very unfriendly manner .(if the rumors are true)

But back to this months target, now that means I will need to assemble and paint my metal Treeman, for a grand total of a whole one figure( I should be careful not to strain something with this months workload), I will no doubt  manage to do other Wood Elves related shenanigans but only the Treeman will count towards the Duel, unless of course I get inspired and spend some of the remaining $44 before June, which if I am honest is very likely to happen.

So after my first two months of purchases for the Wood elves looks like this.
Games workshop retail equivalent $256.00

Actual money Spent $90.00

Actual money Saved $ 166.00

Duelling Update
Still to Assemble
Treeman

Still to paint 

Treeman

Painting in Progress

Nil

Completed this Month
Nil

Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryads 
3 Treekin

Anyway I have rambled, I had better get on with the heavy work load for this month.
Cheers Lupus.

My Duelling opponents

I have been remiss in not linking my adversary's blogs in any of my posts, so to rectify this here we go in no particular order and with no bias to my mate Rupe.

Rupert and his Dwarves can be found here Not about to grow up
Greg and his Dwarfs are here Hoodling's Hole
Nick and his Warriors of Chaos are here Den of the eternal youth
Owen and his Warriors of Slaanesh are here Terrain for hippos
Nick and his Wood Elves are here Carrot and stick
Justin and his 40K Orks are here Holiday hobbyist
Chris and his Vampire counts are here Moruya marauders

To be honest there is an excellent cross section of bloggers in this challenge those who have been established for years and others like myself who are just starting their own blogging journey. I hope that over the coming months my wood elves will grow to a respectable host, and to be honest that I also hit my monthly targets and complete each month on time.

Anyway I have rambled enough
Cheers
Lupus

Wood Elves: The first month of Duelling Gamers complete.

Well here they are the completed figures for my first month of Dueling Gamers, it was a push at the end, but I am very happy with the results, and also happy to finish with a few days up my sleeve, and it appears that I am the third dueller to finished this month, anyway onto the pictures.

The group shots.

 Drycha. 

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.

Nil

Still to paint 

Nil

Painting in Progress

Nil

Completed 100.0%
Drycha
12 Dryad 
3 Treekin

So with the first month completed, I will start thinking about what to do for May , as yet I have not decided what I want, but it will either more tree spirits or some elves, what I will do however is celebrate the New Wood Elves army book next Saturday when I get it, and then read that bad boy for most of the day.

Anyway I have rambled enough catch you all next time.
Cheers Lupus.

Duelling Gamers: Treekin and Dryads Complete, Drycha to go.

With my kitchen painted and fully operational again, I have been able to free up some time to finish more treespirits, with the Treekin and Dryads complete the only model left is Drycha  and then I have completed the first month on schedule, I have saved her for last so that I can spend as much time as possible on the detail, I am hoping to spend some time on Sunday and give the model the attention it deserves but only time will tell.

Anyway pictures of my first two complete regiments

Dryads complete.

Treekin Complete.
I had some lighting issues with the Treekin pictures they are more brown in reality then red the pictures, but they are finished.

Duelling Update
Assembled
Drycha- assembled undercoated black
12 Dryads- assembled undercoated black
3 Treekin- assembled undercoated black

Still to paint 

Nil

Painting in Progress

Drycha

Completed 93.75%

Kitchen
12 Dryads 
3 Treekin

Group picture

Anyway I will have Drycha completed before the end of month.
Cheers
Lupus

Wood Elves: Woodland Ambush Rule

Wood Elves : Woodland Ambush Rule

Under the current army book (which hopefully is only current for another month if some rumors are to be believed), All wood elves armies are allowed to place a 6" forest in their deployment zone before they deploy their army during any of the six standard pitched battles scenarios.

This rule is a nice twist that the game designers have thrown in and to my knowledge is the only option for an army to take dedicated terrain(excluding fozzrik's folding fortress of course) , I have seen many elaborate forests on the net that look just stunning, but making these are beyond my skills for the moment, my forest will be a simple 6" circle of mdf that is based/flocked /painted like the rest of my army with removable autumn trees, removable so that game play is easier. No real bells and whistles except for a few spites, but it will get the job done by providing my dryads with a nice little stubborn bonus.

With the rumors touting a new book in May, this is one rule that I hope stays in the book as it really captures the feel of the Wood Elves army.

Anyway I have rambled enough catch you all next time.
Cheers Lupus.

Wood Elves: Treekin test completed the beauty of wood.

Well it is Easter Thursday and Happy Easter to all, and to be honest I do not expect to get much painting done this long weekend, except for the kitchen of course, but to be honest I have had a fairly slack week just gone, I have not painted all that much and the majority of my free time I have frittered away.

Anyway what I have been able to do was complete a further two dryads, with four more just needing the leaves and vines to be completed, whilst also working on my Treekin test model which i am happy with the final result.
The pictures are not the best I know , but I am slowly learning how to use my camera properly.

Treekin.

The pictures doesn't really show it off well , but my Spites for the army are all going to be purple, which should contrast well with the yellows and browns.

Dryads Complete

Dryads just the leaves to do,

Duelling Update
Assembled
Drycha- assembled undercoated black
12 Dryads- assembled undercoated black
3 Treekin- assembled undercoated black

Still to paint 
Drycha
2 Treekin
5 Dryads


Painting in Progress
4 Dryads - vines and leaves to go.

Completed 25%
3 Dryads - except the eyes.
1 Treekin- except the eyes

This brings my tally to the following, with only Drycha, 2 treekin and 5 dryads to start and a further 4 dryads to finish, this target is not out of reach, and I should be able to finish them on time to start my next months targets.

Cheers Lupus

Wood Elves : Dryad test model complete.

Well time ticks along nicely, and so does my plan for the wood elves. I have managed to complete my version of the dryads colour scheme and I have to admit I am very happy with my test figure, except maybe the eyes they will be a work in progress I think. Sadly around 10 pots of dried paint went to the bin this week, having completely dried out over the years since they were last used, so this week I spent the majority of my Monday night checking my paint collection and adding filtered water to those that needed it, around 0.5 -1ml depending on the amount that had evaporated off, just to ensure that it would not happen again for some time.

Anyway  enough rambling about paint, and onto the duel update, so far in a flurry of some activity the following has occurred.

Let me present to you all my Dryad Autumn Flesh colour scheme.

The paints used were the following.
Dryad Flesh
Base coat Iyanden Darksun 
Drybrush of Bleached Bone 
Wash of Devlan mud 

Bark
Base coat Calthan Brown
Drybrush of Bleached Bone 
Wash of Devlan mud 

My test model had no leaves or vines so I will add how I did them to later posts.
So my current status is as follows.

Duelling Update
Assembled
Drycha- assembled undercoated black
12 Dryads- assembled undercoated black
3 Treekin- assembled undercoated black

Still to paint 
Drycha
3 Treekin
11 Dryads

Painting in Progress
Nil

Completed 6.25%
1 Dryad - except the eyes.

So as it stands I am on track with my goals so far for the second week, I am looking forward to painting the dryads and hope to have them completed  before Easter, so I can then paint my kitchen guilt free.

Anyway I have rambled enough catch you all next time.
Cheers Lupus.