How do you manage stress?
It’s not really important how I managed stress. What is actually more important is how you deal with it.
Each of us will hit the bumps in the road at various points in our lives and stress will arrive. Short term stress is natural and helps us move along at times, chronic stress is something different entirely.
The NHS is a useful resource… Best I can do as I am a ex head teacher and current trainer, so my
Well back to work with a bang, 7 hours of training and after a little lie down I got the top of the tank done as well as a little control box on the side. Greebles help break up the outline and give a little more visual interest. Well that’s what I believe anyway.
Once the Mod Podge has dried then I will get the foam covered ready for undercoating tomorrow.
I actually spent more time looking for stuff than actually building anything. I did however get this far.
Luckily the copydex at the front plinth hadn’t dried so I managed to straighten it up a bit. The one bit you can’t really see is the cereal box card glued to the bottom of the blue foam. This will give it a bit of strength and also protect the corners a smidge.
Next will be the top. Part of me is wanting to do a bit of a ladder and another part of me says sod it, I can’t be arsed.
The smaller pipes are cardboard drinking straws covered lengthways in masking tape to hide the spiral pattern.
This evening I decided to do a bit more terrain and as such instead of the more Medieval style of the last two I went for the good old Pringle tube and made a storage tank.
By made, I mean started… I got this far…
Still a fair old way to go but definitely getting a feeling for it. The thinner pipe is actually from the shower installation which actually fits really well. This was an offcut, strangely the height of a mini Pringle tube. I wrapped the pipe in thin brown paper.
I needed to have a little snooze this afternoon as my DIY shenanigans kind of wrecked me.
Well the shower is in and wired up. Gave it a test run earlier. Works fine 😁.still got to get the tops on the trunking and tidy up my mess then get stuff back into the loft
I am now knackered and will get on with more building tomorrow.
Nope not me, today I set up the pipework for a new shower and as I haven’t done any plumbing for a few years I was a bit rusty.
I turned the water on and I got a shower, well several cold showers… Evidently I forgot to push harder than I thought I needed to. After a lot of swearing, raging and blasphemous ranting I sussed the problem.
Then later on I tried to drill though the ceiling for the power…ye gods the bloody thing was twice as thick as I thought it was.
Got there on the end…After all of the shenanigans I thought Sod it…night off.
Actually I did some more on the houses this morning…I will show photos tomorrow.
Well I couldn’t leave it looking like that so I went and found more dipping inks and had a faff about.
Believe it or not, the internal walls of the blue house are actually a cream colour. The same colour as the flagstones. I actually went back to check after looking at the photo. At least you can sort of see the sign this time!
Well I covered the polystyrene in PVA and then when dry I gave both buildings a blast with a rattle can
I covered the floors with the PVA too and lost a lot of the details I painstakingly put on it.
Oh well, such is life!
I did consider leaving them at the grey stage with just the wood bits painted…
But I had Mordheim Vibes and ended up colourful. The blue one is a shop or inn, you can’t really see the sign in either photo. I actually had to check it was still there 😂.
Been doing DIY today so leaving it there tonight… If the urge takes me I may start adding some colour to the stones…
Ground floor and first floor now have… errr…. floors.
Parts of my class equipment orders have started trickling in….
Today this arrived… Technically it’s a toothpaste tube squeezer or some rubbish like that. We all know its main role in life is to make corrugated sheeting for miniatures…
I worked on these a bit today…
I shall carry on in a bit and get more done. Hopefully tomorrow will be undercoat time and then onto painting.
After that…who knows.
Does anyone have any ideas…I have too many. I am going to make plaster rocks, as well as using expanding foam for hills… But I reckon how to make Wargames Terrain by GW will be coming out soon lol.
