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.

Wood Elves: Provisional List for Duelling Gamers

The urge to paint figures can stem from several different motivations, sometimes I paint my figs because the sculpt inspire's me(my eldar firedragons for example) or when I need to get an army ready for a tournament, such as my vampire counts and chaos dwarfs. In the first instance an army list is not required and neither is a completion date, but in the second it was for both the vamps and the Dawi Zharr, and so it is with duelling gamers the wood elves need to be completed by 30th September and it is required to be a legal army.

My Wood Elves army is not designed to be a super competitive list, in it you will find some sub par choices such as the inclusion of glade riders and a larger than normal unit of dryads, but when you like the figures it is good to include them, it is after all your army that you are painting and so if you like it do it.The wood elves army is fast, and I am looking to exploit that to the extreme giant eagles, noble on eagle and fast cavalry all help with an already fast armies speed. The wood elves play a very good msu approach with only one large unit of wild riders as the real combat unit, and to be honest I would love to make a unit of 15 but that would  eat three months of the challenge as 5 wildriders comes in at $96 GW retail.

Anyway onto the list for the duel which is currently just under 2000 points, this may not be the final list they never really do stay the same, but this list gives a rough outline of what i need to paint, we will all just have to wait and see in September what I have completed.

Lord  265 points
Spellweaver
lv4 beasts
channeling staff

Hero's 261 points
Branch wraith
-A cluster of radients

Noble on giant eagle
-longbow, shield, light, spear
-hail of doom arrow, dragonhelm, potion of foolhardiness
(hail of doom dilutes the purpose of this noble, but it is a staple of the wood elves and the best place I could see to put it with my current list, it would be better on an asb.)

Core 526 points
1 unit of 5 glade riders

1 unit of 10 glade guard

1 unit of 10 glade guard standard bearer of eternal flame

1 unit of 12 dryads

Special  506 points
1 unit of 10 wild riders full command
-banner of swiftness  

1 unit of 3 treekin

Rare 425 points
2 giant eagle

Treeman



From a deployment standpoint 10 drops is reasonable I think, not a lot of chaff, but enough that the treeman, treekin and wildriders can be deployed with assurance of viable targets.


If time and GW money allows I can potentially add the following to the list to expand it to 2500 points.

Noble on elven steed to join wild riders( I plan to kit bash this guy or girl as I don't really like the existing one)
ASB Noble on foot ( Again I plan on kit bashing this fella)
16 more glade guard ( 20 archers are good, but 36 is better)
5 more wild riders
5 more glade riders

Anyway that is my over all goal of Duelling Gamers, so it is brush o'clock.

Cheers,
Lupus.