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The Northmen…

And Women…

Well, that’s this evening’s paint flinging over for a bit.

If I were to be honest I would say that I am not enjoying painting them. Part of me thinks that I really didn’t enjoy building them either.

So for my five leagues I have:

My Heroes,

Undead types,

The Sons of the Dragon’s Blood,

The Northmen,

I am going to use GW Mordor Orcs as Brigands etc. it’s what I used in my One Ring RPG.

I also have painted ‘Hobbit’ Goblins as well as the GW Moria Goblins.

Civilians are courtesy of Guards of Traitors Toll.

I can use my Rohan and Gondor Miniatures too. So quite a bit to faff about with them too.

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Not a Huge Amount

Didn’t really get that much done today. I got the basing material onto the good guys and when dried got them and the cultist bases painted. One in the middle looks a bit darker as some idiot threw red on by accident and instead of wiping it off tried to hide it by slapping the brown on.

I have been busy with the computer….sadly it died so yesterday I decided to try and fix it.

My mate was wanting some stuff 3D printed so I needed my machine to slice the files.

I decided to wipe the machine so have had to start redownloading my necessary software.

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Scale…

Miniatures and buildings…

So merrily completing the Italian Wars stuff it dawned on me I might need some terrain. Now I have got woods etc, so no problem there, but what about buildings…

Now this is one I made… Scale of the house fits the scale of miniature at a 1:1 ratio.

But when you get a force where one miniatures might be 10 or even 50 men. The house would then be massive by that premise.

So the question is what do you do. I know some people scale the buildings down to denote a larger settlement. I find that hurts my head.

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An Interesting News Headline

Skydiver survives 10,000ft fall with no parachute until last moment.

Well I think that’s how it would generally work…

You survive the first 10,000 feet and then the only thing that is likely to survive a fall like that is in fact a corpse.

As it happens the lady in question pulled the ripcord at 1000 feet so technically she fell 9000 feet without using a parachute!

Lazy titling, AI generated or click bait…who knows.

Now to be honest, it does happen…Nicholas Stephen Alkemade was a  tail gunner in a burning Lancaster who decided to jump without a parachute rather than burning. Fell about 18000 feet and lived to tell the tale. He died in 1987.

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New Toys…

and paints

So along with crested gecko transportation I managed to dive into Wonderland models in Edinburgh…it really is a wonderful land of all things toys, kits, model railways, paints… You name it they probably have it.

Wonderland Models

They have Perry Miniatures, Frostgrave, Stargrave, Oathmark and Bolt action as well as a wall full of Victrix.

I went for some Balearic slingers to bulk out my republican Romans.

I got some desert yellow spray cans and the two pots of AP Speedpaint.

Now the Scottish Tabletop show was on Saturday, but at £25 a ticket then I decided against going.

I don’t mind paying to get into a show, but that seemed a bit steep for me to square away.

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Nearly Home

Sunrise: slept through the night. Definitely not bright eyed and bushy tailed… Need coffee! 

As the coffee in the onboard café is a bit naff then I will wait another hour until I get home.

The Captain is messing with my head as he is coming into Lerwick through the North mouth of the sound. .

This is the island of Noss. Bressay is beyond that and Lerwick beyond Bressay. Not a view I normally see from the ferry.

We must be coming in this way as they have been dredging the sound to allow larger cruise liners in. The other day they were blasting at the south end. Quite close to where my office is.

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Another Map

Yeah, heading back on the MV Hjaltland to Shetland.

Walked more Since Friday than I have in months so my poor feet have given up the ghost. The ferry leaves at 17.00. I was on it and in my seat at 15.15. 

So to relieve boredom I started on another map. Not very original…but it keeps me from asking are we nearly there yet, We haven’t even left yet and won’t be there until 07.30 tomorrow.

A scary blank map!

So the blank map is always a bit of an unknown quantity…Never sure at this point where it will go. I decided on another large island. By large, in my head each gex is 5 miles… Therefore this island is sitting at about 150 x 90 miles.

I have now added in a few features… A giant inland lake, mountains, hills and rivers.

Not sure where it is going next. Marshes along the western river methinks…but who knows. Only time will tell.