Kitbashing Ferastella my Gladelady of the Ashenhalls.

This is Ferastella-  Glade lady of the Ashen-halls.

And this is how I made her, unlike the ASB that I kit-bashed for something different, the current wood elves range only has one mounted hero and that is male, I wanted mine to be female so that meant another project.

Parts to make Ferastella

From Glade riders sprue
Elven steed  no 4,Legs torso with boobs, cloak with gems and leaves.left sword arm(sword trimmed) and right sword arm

From Wild riders sisters of the thorn
Wildrider champion head and  2 part hair

From eternal guard wildwood rangers
Shield with gem, and glyph that can be puttied over to make own glyph or something else.

Old wild riders metal.
Metal horse head because i wanted something different.


Final product
And here she is all ready for her showing at Axemaster.

A nice side view.

I like the look of the Silver armor for my elves.

Shield just needs a unique design when i build up the courage.

I am really happy with the cloak

Cheers Lupus

Duelling Gamer's : On target sort of, with a change of plans.

With a change of priorities for the Duel I have modified my final goals. Instead of 5 wild riders, 5 way watchers  and a Citadel wood that I planned to complete, Instead my revised goal will be
1 x kitbashed mounted noble, 1 treekin unit filler (represents 1 treekin), 5 waywatchers, a waywatcher noble and 3 more glade guard.

The reason for this is simply that I have struggled for the last three months to find a color scheme for my wildriders that I was happy with, I will not rush these figures for the duel , so instead I have decided to revise the target instead.

Duelling Update

Still to Assembled.

NIL

Still to paint 

3 Glade guard.
1 waywatcher lord

Painting in Progress

5 waywatchers

Completed this Month

1 Spell Weaver on foot
1 giant eagle

1 kitbashed noble asb on foot
1 Kitbashed noble on elven steed.

Right View of Steed

Front View

Left View

Rear View

Right view with Ferastella

Front View

Left View with the detail of the Shield

Rear View.

1 Treekin filler base
Using the leftover leg of my Treeman and various Spites, i had hoped to give it the look of the Spites defending a fallen spirit.

Front view

Left View

Rear View

Right View

Completed in past Months

Drycha

1 Spellsinger on foot

12 Dryads

Dryad unit filler

25 Glade Guard

6 Glade Riders

3 Treekin

Treeman

1 giant eagle

With this revised target I have a total of 9 more figures to complete and of course base the army, which should be achievable.
Hang on to your hats this is the last week.

Cheers Lupus.

Axemaster day 2.

Well the good nights sleep did not happen for a number of reasons, but I did get some sleep so that combined with a good breakfast and a 40 minute hot shower had me refreshed as I was going to get and ready for the challenge  of day 2.

After the failure of my tactics on Day one I decided to throw the plan out of the window and try some different tactics, I mean it could not go worse then it had , or could it?

Game 4 

Opponent: Josh 
Army : Brettonian's, 
Deployment: Battle for the pass deployment

His Army from what I remember was
2 x Lords
2 x lv2 beasts ladies
2 x trebuchets
2 x 10 peasant archer regiments
1 x 8 grail knight regiment
1 x 3 peg knights
1 x 6 knights of the realm
1 x 12 knights of the realm
1 x 9 knights errant

Spoiler: This was my most enjoyable game of the weekend and that is saying a lot considering the amount of fun games and the interesting opponents i played against.

My Deployment.

Josh's deployment.

A closer view of the Knights of the realm and Errants.

Waywatchers at the moment of their victory.

The action as it happens

Notable occurrences of the game.

• My waywatchers defeating Peg knights in close combat
• A unit of Glade guard flank charging the large unit of knights of the realm and pinning them for two turns.
• Wild riders tearing through the bsb and his bus and into combat with his general, and killing him.
• My Treekin standing toe to toe with the Frost Phoenix most of the game
• The result was 13-7 against me, what a great game.

So with the first game of day 2 I scored more points then the entire day before, happy with the start.

Game 5 
Opponent:David 
Army :High elves
Deployment: Battle line deployment

His Army from what I remember was

Prince on Dragon

Dragonmage on Dragon

Mounted BSB on elven steed with Banner of the world dragon 

Dragon knights or Silverhelm bus i forget which type

3 repeater bolt throwers

Frosthearted Phoenix

Seaguard unit 

Archer regiment

Notable occurrences of the game.

• Shooting the Dragon mage off, and then casting pit of shades on his Sun dragon and getting that as well.
• Wild riders tearing through the bsb and cav unit and into combat with his general, and killing him.
• My Treekin standing toe to toe with the Frost Phoenix most of the game.

No Pictures of this game as they came out super blurry, which for me means they were really rubbish.

The result was 15-5 my way me, what a great game and my first victory of the event.

Game 6 
Opponent: Andrew
Army : Dark Elves,
Deployment: Battle for the pass deployment

His Army from what I remember was

Malekith on coldone

Bsb on Cold one

lv1 or 2 on foot

10 cold one knights

3 units of dark riders

4 reaper bolt throwers

2 units of corsairs

2 Hydra's

The only picture that i took of the Dark Elves, love the lavender cold ones, I see you Malekith,I see you.

Notable occurrences of the game.

• My Wild riders failed to charge the cold one bus needing five on 3d6 and I only rolled a four.
• Getting the witch king  and his BSB down to only 1 wound each , but not being able to seal the deal and missing out on the 900 odd vp they were both worth hurt , but did not really change the outcome.
• Expressing to my opponent Andrew how I wanted to go to attend another tournament next year called Rumble in the Bronx held in Geelong, as I had only heard great things about it, to discover that he was the TO of said event, so we laughed at that.

Anyway the result was 20-0 against me, but i had a great game, next time Malekith, next time.

Final Result 
 So lets review my goals I set for Axemaster.

1. Have a lot of laughs: Yep I did that every game, and a fair amount in between games as well.
2. Meet new gamers: Met a lot of people that share the same interest's always a good thing.
3. A fun weekend: I have said it before the entire weekend was a blast.
4. Score 30 battle points: Well 28 battle points is not bad, i blame Malekith for my shortage of 2 points.
5. Win 1 game: It was looking touch and go there for a while, but yes i did manage to win a game.

And in the final wash up I finished last at the event , but i did not leave empty handed.

My trophy for Best Sportsman.

My unexpected prize for best sportsman a box of Chaos warriors, the start of a new army perhaps?

To finalize this post I must thank the following people.
First my family for giving me the leave pass to attend over the weekend.
My opponents who made my games a fun experience even when I was losing, which you cannot come last if you are not.
Hoodling for his blog that restarted my interest in the hobby.
The Hampton games club for hosting a great event.

Anyway I have rambled enough.

Cheers
Lupus

My experience at Axemaster 2014 Day 1.

So before the Tournament I set myself  some goals for Axemaster listed in order of my priority.

1. Have a lot of laughs
2. Meet new gamers
3. Have a fun weekend
4. Score 30 battle points
5. Win 1 game

So with these five goals in mind I headed down to Melbourne, I arrived at the Hampton games club about 30 minutes early and snagged a good parking spot, then wandered off to find some food, Started the day with a fresh bread roll still warm from the oven and a coffee so I had a breakfast of champions and I was all set to test my generalship and my fortune against 39 other hopefuls.

Game 1
Opponent:Josh 
Army : Ogre Kingdoms
Deployment: Battleline deployment

His Army from what I remember was
Slaughtermaster
BSB
Firebelly
Gut star
Leadbelchers
Ogres
4 Mournfang cavalry
2 stonehorns
2 x 1 sabretusks

The Ogres deployed.

My Shadow weaver and the glade guard that went into the realm of chaos with him.

The remnants of my Army.

Notable occurrences of the game.

• My Shadow weaver  General miscast on my 1st turn with an attempt at withering and dimensional cascaded into the warp, onto the back foot but still in with a chance i thought at this stage.
• Treeman and Mournfangs kill each other in a grinding match.
• The unit of Lead belchers that was protecting his Flank swift reformed no less then 4 times on their basic leadership of 7 and destroyed my flank, it felt so much like this.

The game finished on turn 5 due to the fact that I was tabled, so off to a 0-20 start, and over lunch I learned a new term ' Submarine-ing'  : To lose your first game on purpose and fly ahead of the pack from round 2 because of softer match ups, ( If only I had that tactical acumen.)

Game 2 
Opponent:Viv  
Army :Vampires
Deployment: Battle for the pass deployment

His Army from what I remember was
Caster Lord on nightmare Lv4 with 4+ward and black periapt
Mounted BSB
Mounted vamp
Necro on foot
Black night bus
Ghoul Horde
Zombie Bunker
2 units of 5-6 Varghiests
Hexwraiths
Fellbats

My Army in all its glory at the start of the Game.

Viv moving his army closer to its victory

The Black Varghiets that die to arrows, Ghoulkin ( Fellbats) that die to Crumble test.

Treekin and their Insane courage, with Varghiets and Blacknights .

The Ghoul horde that I had no counter to, and that my army just could not deal with.

 Notable occurrences of the game.

• His Vampire Lord miscast on his 1st turn with a bubble vanhels and dimensional cascaded into the warp, so i had a 600+ vp head start, not much crubled fellbats is about all. But my focus changed to killing his necro (which I did not manage) the only other caster with lore of vampires.
• I managed to kill both units of Varghiests, one with shooting and the other with close combat from my archers.
• Treekin rolling Insane courage in last round of CC of the game.

Another loss however but this time it was 14-6 so I was on the board now with battle points(Thank you Treekin.)

Game 3 versus 
Opponent:James
Army :Vampire Counts
Deployment:Meeting engagement

His Army from what I remember was
Heinrich Kemmler
Krell
Vampire bsb of foot
Vampire on foot
Zombie bunker
60 strong ghoul horde
1 unit 12 vargiests
Varghulf
Black coach

• James deployed all his characters into his Ghoul horde and i think i failed to kill anything of his that he could not heal back.
• Suicide charge of my treekin into the Ghoul horde resulted in almost killing Kemmler, I was one wound shy, but it was not to be.

Ghoul Bus with all the Characters in it.

Deployment at the start of the game

Another loss this time it was 20-0 , the game was over by turn four, so not a great showing for the first day.

 I retired to the hotel I was staying at , having decided that with my cold I would be no fun at the Drunken shenanigans and resolved to get some sleep and be prepared for Sunday.

Anyway I have rambled enough.

Cheers

Lupus

Kitbashing my Wood Elves ASB on foot.

In an effort to make my army mine in a sense unique, I decided to Kit-bash my own version of the Army standard bearer.
This Glade captain was made with the following parts and I intend to use the same parts again when a mounted version is made so that the two are interchangeable, at least appearance wise.

To start with as an aid I have include a picture and a description of the various parts i used from which wood elves boxes i obtained them from.

Component parts going into my ASB

Description of parts
From Glade guard sprues
Torso, legs, cloak with gems, bow, leaves to stand on and spite with arrow.

From eternal guard/wildwood rangers sprues
Standard, wildwood champion head, shield with gem

From Dryad sprues
Owl for banner top

The Finished Product.

A blurred picture with the Camera I currently have.

More pictures can be found in this post here, I was basically too lazy to inbed them in this post.
As you may have noticed the head is different as the original one I planned to use as the original did not provide the feel/look/vibe  to the figure as I had hoped, and the spite was removed as well becauseI felt it made the base too busy.

Cheers
Lupus

Duelling gamers: More time more time, I need more time.

Rules for a painting challenge and painting to dead lines, DO NOT I REPEAT DO NOT start reading a book that everyone raves about. In this case I started reading the Nagash End times book and lost three days of painting this week, so all I have managed to do is putter around and finish my Battle standard bearer.

Whilst I will be able to recover for Duelling Gamers, I doubt if I will be able to do this for Axemaster only time will tell though.

Duelling Update

Still to Assembled.

NIL

Still to paint 

NIL

Painting in Progress

Citadel Wood
5 way watchers
5 Wild riders

Completed this Month

1 kit bashed Glade captain asb on foot, using parts from the Glade guard, Glade riders and Eternal Guard Sprue.

Back View of the Glade captain

Side View with some shield detail.

Front View with detail of Captain.

Attempted close up of the Banner and Owl.

Side view of Banner and Captain taking a break from the day.

Front View with the captain and banner in one

1 Spell Weaver on foot
1 giant eagle

Completed in past Months

Drycha

1 Spellsinger on foot

12 Dryads

Dryad unit filler

25 Glade Guard

6 Glade Riders

3 Treekin

Treeman

1 giant eagle

Only time will tell what i can get painted for next week.

Cheers Lupus.

The Road to Cancon

A quick update , while I am busy painting for Axemaster, the tournament bug has bitten hard, and I have signed up to go to Cancon  Australia day 2015 long weekend for the Warhammer fantasy event.

I have been meaning to attend this awesome convention for years now , so I have bitten the bullet and received approval from the GREAT ONE, with any luck I can convince some mates to attend as well.

If you want to see what Cancon is about then here you go.

Hoping to see you there.

Cheers
Lupus