Duelling Gamers: The joys of painting a character model.

Week two is now complete and so finally is my Spellsinger, The spellsinger has been a WIP for the better part of 6 weeks now, one figure should not have consumed so much of my time, but I have found it especially hard to get the colors right on her and I have learned the lesson in the past not to rush a scheme if I am not happy with it, but as of this moment I am happy with the final result so without further delay I present my magical buff machine.(Lore as yet undecided, name as yet undecided, fluff as yet undecided. Small steps small steps...)

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
1 Citadel Wood

Still to paint 

5 wild riders

Painting in Progress

2 giant eagles

Completed this Month
5 glade guard
1 Spellsinger on foot pictures are again not the best.

Front view

Side View

Back view with some nice clarity of the vines and leaves

Other side view

The best picture I could manage of her spites.

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

Treeman

My revised  plan for the next week is to complete at least one eagle and to make a start on the wildriders and elven steeds.

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

Nagash Sighted- OMG

Hi All,

Just a quick note for those unaware, this guy just went on my to buy list.So just a quick update, i may never field him, but he is going in my collection, that is for damn sure.

Borrowed from Kiwihammer .

Borrowed from Carpe Noctem, these guys rock.

Duelling Gamers: 5 more Glade Guard complete.

The first week of August has flown by, and thankfully target 1 for August has been achieved, my Virus has gone bye bye, but even with that occurring I have not managed to get all of my first week targets completed.
But I will settle for the 5 additional glade guard, it is something at least and i hope it will start the creative juices flowing.

Anyway here we go the month to date.

Duelling Update

Still to Assembled.

1 Citadel Wood

Still to paint 

5 wild riders

Painting in Progress

2 giant eagles

1 Spellsinger on foot

Completed this Month

5 glade guard, including a standard bearer and musician.

Front view

Side view

Back view

other side view

Close up of the standard with the purple spites

Best picture i could get of the other side of the standard.

The standard bearer is the first one i have completely painted, usually i just did the banner poles for my Vamps and Dawi Zharr and left them at that.

Completed in past Months

Drycha

12 Dryads

Dryad unit filler

20 Glade Guard

6 Glade Riders

3 Treekin

Treeman

With the this week complete my target for next week is the completion of 1 Giant eagle and the Spell singer, and if i can manage it, to start on the wildriders.

Fingers crossed, anyway I have rambled enough catch you all next time.

Cheers Lupus.

Duelling Gamers: August the call of Kurnous, of Wild hunts and woods

Well August is here and so is the Flu,I hope that the Flu will go soon, anyway this is my plan for the month,and with a sprinkle of luck it should pan out.
Step one: Get rid of the Flu,
Step two: Paint the balance of July and what I plan for August,
Step three: Finish August up to date,so that I can have a good crack at September.

Anyway here we go.

With my $100 retail plus the $10.25 savings from last month , I have $110.25, with this  I purchased the following

1.  5 Glade Guard which I received in May as part of a birthday present for $0.00, saving $17.18 of real money but counting as 17.18 towards the challenge.Birthday present are a great way to boost an army with out costing a lot of money, and friends and family may not always be giving you exactly what you are after at the time, but everything has a use and I am always happy to get these types of gifts.
2. 5 Metal Wild riders for $0.00 traded from Wargamerau for some Lizardmen I was not using, saving $45.00 of real money but counting as 45.00 towards the challenge.( Although luckily for me the new plastic kit is cheaper than 5 metal wild riders used to be which would have been a whole month of painting on just 5 models for $96.00. Sometimes and I say this rarely GW do warrant praise)
3. A Citadel Wood for $36.80 purchased from my LGS, but counts as $46.00 retail for the Challenge saving $9.20 of real dollars. The wood elves are a funny army, because they are allowed to place an extra wood for no points or D3+1 woods if you buy the acorn of ages for 100pts. The last army book they were allowed to place an extra 6" wood before deployment, in the current army book this has been improved in size to a Citadel Wood to be place before deployment. ( I am aware of the marketing thoughts that were probably behind this and to be honest I still think it is a great move.) I had though of just using an outline of the base of the wood, which you get get off the net( probably will if i decided to make an extra three down the track if/when i run an acorn of the ages), but instead decided to treat myself to the actual one from GW, it was going to count for retail value anyway and to be honest its is a nice looking kit with lots of extras that i intend to use on other models.

So after this months spend i have left $2.07 towards the final month of September.
With five months of purchases for the Wood elves my spending looks like this.
Actual money Spent $ 184.42
Actual money Saved $ 413.51
Games workshop retail equivalent $597.93

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
5 glade guard
5 wild riders
1 Citadel Wood

Good ole metal Wild Riders awaiting their time in the sun.

Citadel Wood in crisp packaging.

Still to paint 

Painting in Progress

2 giant eagles
1 Spellsinger on foot

Completed this Month

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

Treeman

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

Duelling Gamers : Month Complete not yet caught up, but getting closer to being there.

Well that was an in tents month (Pardon the bad joke its my wife's humor rubbing off on me).
Since my last update my productivity has ground to a screaming halt, the Flu has once again decided to visit us here, and it has hit us all hard, damn hard 20 tonne of cattle truck hard. I have not managed to progress any further on my army since the 27th, but I suppose that is all part of the experience.
Anyway this means that whilst I am still behind in my painting targets, it is further advanced than it was this time last month, but not as far as i had hoped it to be, but what if's and could be's will drive people insane so with that note I declare July as complete as it will be.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
Nil

Still to paint 

Nil

Painting in Progress

2 Giant Eagles

1 Spellsinger on foot

Completed this Month
19 Glade Guard

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

Treeman

Cheers
Lupus

Duelling gamers: A July work in progress

Woot third week of July has started well, my spellsinger and two eagles are assembled and in the case of the eagles green stuffed, which means I am only two weeks behind now.
The Spellsinger has had minor conversion work in the form of hand swaps to make her pose a tad more unique as this model is everywhere, also to equip her with a bow so she will be wysiwyg,  but my skills are rusty so I decided to start out gently, with adding a bow and a sword from the glade rider sprues.

Without further delays, with 4 days left of the month here is my current status.

Duelling Update
Still to Assembled.
Nil

Still to paint 

2 giant eagles

Eagle one, top view with some of my green stuff showing

Eagle two looking unhappy that she is not yet painted.

Spellsinger base coated ready to go.

Painting in Progress

1 Spellsinger on foot

Completed this Month
19 Glade Guard

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

Treeman

Duelling Gamers:Better pictures of my Glade Guard

Not much to say, the camera was found.
So as promised more Glade guard pictures

My two units of ten.

1st unit Front

1st unit left side

1st unit rear

1st unit right side

2nd unit Front

2nd unit left side, using one of my vamps movement tray for the time being, to see how the brown base works with my Glade Guard.

2nd unit Rear View

2nd Unit right view

Originally I had intended to run these Glade guard as a single unit, but upon further consideration I think 2 units of 10 will work better for the army.