Duelling gamers: Glade guard finished.

Well it has taken some time, but I have finished my remaining glade guard from June, so with less than two weeks to go, work will start on my July targets.

Sadly the pictures really do not do them justice, as my little guy has decided to hide my camera, so these are from my phone camera, will update them when I get a chance.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
2 Giant Eagles

Still to paint 

1 Spellsinger on foot

Painting in Progress

Nil

Completed this Month
19 Glade Guard

Front view of 10 Glade guard with Muso

Side View of 10 glade guard.

I will update with more pictures once I find my camera, as the rest were blurry as sin.


Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryads
Dryad unit filler
1 Glade Guard
6 Glade Riders
3 Treekin

Treeman

The road to Axemaster- May it be gentle and kind.

It has been many years since I last attended a tournament, the last one I played at was Axemaster in 2003 or 2004 anyway I think it was, details are sketchy for one as old as I, why is this important you must be asking yourself what bearing does this have?

The Breathless Host and I shall be attending Axemaster this year.
Cue cheers from my wife and groans from my painting desk, I intend to take my Wood Elves and I may have convinced a mate to take his Dark Elves( By convince I mean that I mentioned to him that I was going and he is jumping on board supposedly).

So what does this all mean, well it means that the painting schedule for Duelling Gamers is about to be supplemented by another 500 points of Wood Elves and that my completion date has moved closerby a little more than a week, this is excellent as I have been slack of late with my painting and as I have paid for my spot I am committed and properly enticed to complete my army by the 19th of September when I should be ready to go, and I may even have time to play a practice game or two in theory.

The only real question that is left is what tasty treat shall I make the TO to bribe an extra couple of bonus points out of him.

Anyway enough rambling I have painting to do.

Cheers
Lupus.

Duelling gamers : Feeling a little rare but hang onto your mangle wurzels month four is here.

Welcome back to another installment of Wood elves whimsy, well as we enter the forth month of the Duel, I find that I am behind in my painting with still needing to complete 19 Glade Guard from June it is a shame but that is life for you, this will put the pressure on now with only another two months to go after this one my plan for July is thus.

With my $100 retail plus the $20.25 savings from last month this gives a budget of  $120.25 for July, I used this to purchased the following

1. 2 Game zone Great Eagles  for $0.00 traded from Wargamerau for some Lizardmen I was not using, saving $88.00 of real money but counting as 88.00 towards the challenge.
2. Spellsinger on foot for $0.00 traded from Wargamerau for again some Lizardmen I was not using, saving $22.00 of real money but counting as 22.00 towards the challenge.

So $10.25 left for August.

So after four months of purchases for the Wood elves my spending looks like this.
Actual money Spent $ 147.62
Actual money Saved $ 342.13
Games workshop retail equivalent $489.75

Including finishing the leftovers from June, this makes for an intensive month of painting with 5 days already gone, only time will tell  if I can catch up and get my painting back on track of course only having three figures in July does help, but what figures they are.
With that in mind July looks like this.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
1 Spellsinger on foot
2 Giant Eagles

Still to paint 

As above

Painting in Progress

19 Glade Guard , no pictures of the WIP after the wow factor.

Completed this Month
Nil

Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryads
Dryad unit filler
1 Glade Guard
6 Glade Riders
3 Treekin

Treeman

Dueling Gamers : Mission failed June goals not complete.

Well that is June over, this month my progress has been slow and I have failed to meet my expected goal, I am however happy with the quality of painting that I have managed, it should not be long before the stragglers from June are complete, my glade guard are all that remains with most almost complete, the delay in posting this update has occured in no small part to my wife being away all week for work and with her my camera, so I was waiting for pictures before posting.

Without further ado, here we go.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
Nil


Still to paint 

Nil

Painting in Progress

19 Glade guard

Completed this Month
1 Glade guard
6 Elven Steed
6 Glade riders

Rear view of my Glade riders 

Right side of the Glade riders

Front View of my Glade riders.

Right view of my glade rider musician, i am really happy with how the horn turned out.

Front off center view of musician

Left View of the musician, with the glowing weapon runes

Rear View of Muscian.

Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryad +Dryad Unit filler
3 Treekin
Treeman

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

Dueling Gamers: Elven Steed test completed

While sitting down thinking about this update I realized that it has been over 10 years since I last painted a horse of any description, this was in no small part to my wowcrack addiction, but the finished test scheme is something that I am excited about in my humble opinion, my mate Rupe a fellow participant of this insanity has a saying, a mantra really and it goes a little something like this 'so long as it looks good to you that is all that matters', I find that most of the time we are our own worst critics which is why I find that mantra useful, anyway on with the update.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
6 Glade riders
19 glade guard

Still to paint 

Nil.

Painting in Progress

5 Elven Steed

Completed this Month
Gladeguard color test
1 Elven steed color test

Right side view of Elven steed.

Front view of Elven steed

Left view of Elven steed

Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryad +Dryad Unit filler
3 Treekin
Treeman

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

Duelling gamers: Glade guard test model complete.

With the first week of June almost over my progress has been what can only be called slow, I have only managed to finish my glade guard test figure to a point that I am happy with how the colours look.
My great plans from last month worked on paper but not in reality, I have found that there is no point rushing into a paint scheme if you are not happy with it, I learnt that hard lesson with my Dawi Zharr, but I am happy with how the test model has turned out so the painting production line can start churning out the other 19, and while that happens I will start working on my elven steed test colour. I will not have time to paint anymore this week as I am off to the mother in laws, for farm and pony shenanigans.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
6 Glade riders
19 glade guard

Still to paint 

5 Elven Steed

Painting in Progress

1 Elven steed

Completed this Month
Gladeguard color test

Right side

Back, quiver is the color of the bow, but the photo has not really captured it.

Left side , some detail of the bow has been picked up in the picture.

Front view, again not the best picture, but you get the drift.

Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryad +Dryad Unit filler
3 Treekin
Treeman

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

Duelling Gamers: June the Month of Core.

This month we finally see the elves make an appearance, and what a way to make an entrance.

With my $100 retail plus the $30.25 savings from last month this gives a budget of  $130.25 for June, I purchased the following

1. 20 Glade guard for $45.35 from Wargamerau saving $23.40 of real money but counting as $68.75 towards the challenge.
2. 6 Glade riders for $11.55  from Ebay , saving $29.70 of real money but counting as $41.25 towards the challenge.

To be honest sometimes the best thing about buying/trading second hand is that you get what you want and only what you want, as is the case with the Glade riders and Glade guard.
I was able to obtain 6 riders and 20 guard  whereas if I had purchased them new it would have been in either multiples of 8 or 16 depending on the GW box.

So after my three months of purchases for the Wood elves my breakdown of spending looks like this.
Games workshop retail equivalent $ 379.75
Actual money Spent $ 147.62
Actual money Saved $ 232.13
So at this stage I have been able to purchased all my figs for an average of 39% of RRP.

So  with all the accounting complete for the month I have $20.25 left for July, now it is on with the hobby breakdown, so for June I have the following for my starting point.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
20 Glade Guard
6 Glade Riders
6 Elven Steeds

Glade riders awaiting the attempt to go Boo.

The Glade guard still asleep on their sprue

Another shot of the Glade guard sprue to show the depth of their character. (spell singer doing a photo bomb)

Painting in Progress

Nil

Completed this Month
Nil

Completed in past Months
Drycha
12 Dryads
Dryad unit filler
3 Treekin

Treeman


That is it for me time to work on my three regiments so my core requirement is satisfied, not a huge undertaking, but my biggest model count in a month so far.
Cheers
Lupus.