This evening I decided to get on with the Florentine forces.
Skeleton Brown Dipping inks is the base layer as shown below…
Tomorrow I will hopefully get the patchy planes shoved onto the bases, then flagged and varnished…
Speaking of varnish… Earlier I went to put a second layer of mat varnish on something and somehow managed to pick up a can of black, shook it for ages and somehow missed anything important. The grass looks a bit burnt, but that can be flocked over.
I come from this after thirty-four years in education. Primarily in primary but with forays into secondary. Last Ten were in senior management.
The one absolute is:
CRITICAL THINKING
Ye gods it would certainly assist in the amount of stupidity you see flying around.
In the old days you would see it from the man in the pub or papers like the Daily Heil in the UK. Now we have Social Media and outlets like Fox News, GB News… Other outlets are available.
Now we have generative AI with political parties using it to forward their aims.
Discovery channel with their made up documentary shows. Sorry there are other channels too but I just woke up.
I remember watching their Shark week one on the Meg.I mean it should have had the tagline: This is a true story. Only the facts have been changed to protect the innocent!
Ended up in a discussion with a few kids after that one about how it was all made up… On the upside we ended up doing a project on Ancient Life… So I took the win 🤗
Watched something the other day where a guy was arguing that 88% of Muslim women couldn’t speak English. When statistics show that it is 88% can speak it very well,
And let’s not get into politics…
I now need to get going so I will end here with a final thought.
In the words of the great Aretha Franklin…”THINK!”
Yes, I have worked on the Florentine forces this evening…
Red feathers, bases and flags left to do.
There are a few bits and pieces I need to sort out… On some of the upright pikes I obviously forgot to remove some of the supports from the pikes…
I will get these cut off tomorrow. The other thing I need to do is to reduce the length of the pikes to primarily match the rest (they are too long to fit in my box).
I will get these finished tomorrow and sort out the Militia…. Aaaaargggghhhhh!
Well after a day of running adult and child protection training I was a bit pooped. I did want to get something done so I made some pretty guns and got everything done apart from the feathers (and the bases)!
I might have to take a little break from these as it has suddenly dawned on me that the show I am entering another skull into is on Wednesday… I basically have to get the whole thing done by Tuesday night…. Emmmmmm I haven’t even started! Trying for a smilodon skull this time.
The following was my foam deer skull from last year.
I can’t really think of anything, but I remember, as a kid of about eight or nine, trying to work out how old I would be in the year 2000… What…How ancient?
Yeah 34! Ancient and over the hill.
I used to have a really huge dislike of seaweed… I think Jaws has something to do with that, similar fear of dark water.
I have gone sea kayaking in the dark which funnily enough meant I had to deal with the both of them… Sadly I cannot find the photos….
Basically all that is left are the three guns at the back as well as the weapons and feathers.
Sorry John I forgot the silver paint again. I did bring gold though (I don’t know why either) I can only think I looked at the silver and picked up the ‘Glittering Loot’…
I have now added it to the box with the miniatures…no excuse tomorrow
Hopefully I will get these finished then move onto the Militia soon.
This evening I worked on the cavalry and the special characters…
Pretty much done apart from the weapons and ostrich feathers. Still toying with red and white on the feathers. There are three feathers so I was thinking two red and one white.
I really should have done more, but am grumping that I am back to work tomorrow…in reality I forgot to bring the silver from the other room and can’t be arsed to go back through 😂.
Yes, I actually managed to do a bit of painting this evening…
I got most of the horses done, well the main body colour. I also got the firearms done. I did have a bloody long sleep into this afternoon. Woke up at 15:45 lol.
I hope to carry on tomorrow… I am determined to get these and the militia finished before I start on the Bolt Action stuff.
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