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Coloured Walls

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…

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Housing Update

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…

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Housing Crisis

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.

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Oooh Country Bucket List

What’s a country that’s at the top of your bucket list?

Fart bags, I need a bath not a bucket…..

Buuuuut I will shorten it to top three (possibly).

Number One…

Canada:

I actually want to travel along the trans Canadian Highway…4860 miles. Vancouver Island to the Labrador coast. By travel I mean motor vehicle. Not walk!

Number 2…

Japan:

Always had a lovely of all things Japanese so would really, really love to visit.

Number 3…

Norway:

Must be my Viking Blood, which is a bit weird because I have more Breton than Nordic countries in my DNA.

And in No particular order…

To Sudan up the Nile… historical interest

China…a bit like Japan, just an interest in the history of China.

Australia…lot of family moved out there…

New Zealand…a bit like Australia, family moved there in the Great Depression. Also nearly moved out there to teach, but my dad became ill.

Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil.

America: Especially-Texas, Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, New York (as I want to go to Fort William Henry). Oh yeah and all the Places the City of New Orleans train route  goes through. Basically Chicago to New Orleans…aka on a train. (Just love that song)

That will do for now.

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House Two Started

So I added the card ‘wood’ beams to the first house and made a start on the second.

With the second one I am going for the card walls but adding in a bit of foam… It isn’t glued down yet. I’ll do it tomorrow.

Now the beams are a bit thick on house one so shall be rectified on house two.

Can you tell I am making it up as I go along?

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Something Different

So as my class is definitely less than a month away I thought I had better get my finger out and start making examples of things.

This is the scrap card and bog roll version of a building… It is, for want of a better word, it’s infancy.

This is the base layer of corrugated card, smeared in thin PVA and had toilet roll stippled on it

When dry I will do beams, floors etc

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More Colours

This morning I added more colours to this lot.

The yellow made its appearance again.

Hopefully I will get on with them this evening.

I am actually really enjoying painting these. I don’t know if it is because I am feeling better or I am just enjoying painting more simple miniatures. By that I don’t mean any insult to Wargames Atlantic. I just think they are lovely mini’s to paint. Big blocks of colour with the odd strap or accessory. Yes if you look closely at the accessories or some of the additions then you can see they are not sitting right or seem held oddly.

This is why the photos are taken at a distance.

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Morning Routine

Tell us about your morning routine.

Best Person to describe my Morning Routine is the late, absolutely Great Dolly Parton!

Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition
And yawn and stretch and try to come to life…