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Militia, Pastels and Cannons

Well this evening I worked on the militia a bit more. Nearly all of the white has gone. I have been tending to rush these as I want them out of the way. By rushing I mean when I can actually get round to painting them.  Having them sitting there glued to pennies and undercoated is not exactly speedy work…

My cannons and crew got the Italian Wars arrived yesterday, just forgot to mention it 

The Alternative Armies free gift this month is a war droid, which I will probably have a use for. I also purchased the Venetian ambassador, not because I believe that Venice will be the next release, but because he was the only character set I didn’t have. I have one heavy, a light and an organ gun for the Florentine forces.

And Finally I rattled out another Pastel piece this morning while drinking my coffee.

Tried something the same, but different in the execution. These are super fast, probably 10 minutes or less from start to finish. Well if nothing else it keeps me quiet for a little while.

There is one colour oil pastel that I will have to replace soon. Can you guess which colour?

So up to Episode five of Shogun and really enjoying it.

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Pastels, Painting and Shogun

Well this evening I did a bit more painting on the militia…

I didn’t get too much done, but they pretty much started off white so at least progress has been made.

I also managed to get a couple more pastel pieces done…

Tonight’s
Yesterday’s

Whilst painting I started watching Shotgun. I am actually enjoying it. I can vaguely remember the original from the late 70’s. I thought it would be naff and it isn’t. So yey to Shogun!

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Oil Pastels in Aberdeen

So I had to go to Aberdeen for 5 nights for train the trainer training. My first thought was taking some minis and paints down, but after watching my case being loaded I am glad I didn’t. Instead I took my oil pastels and tried to do something every night… Since Monday night I have achieved my goal…

I decided to keep going on the same idea rather than trying something new each evening. The first was on off white/grey paper, After which I changed to black. I will keep practicing on this style as I like doing it. My blending is definitely improving, not there yet, but getting there.

The last one was this evening. I decided to try a different approach to the swirling ripple effect.

I will work on it more tomorrow..

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Painting with Cramp

Well actually I was painting with em…paints. the cramp was a side effect!

It kept happening!

But at least I got more done on the militia…

I would have liked to have got them finished but wasn’t to be.

The other 14 got slapped with Speedpaints too.

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Saturday Art

Well I have been a bit knackered the last few days. I have been training people for four days last week. Friday night I was just buggered. Two days of 7 hours with the people plus getting in early and getting out later meant I really couldn’t be arsed to do anything.

This morning I felt the itch to be artistic but didn’t fancy any miniatures. So instead I hauled out the soft pastels and had a play around.

On the first one I drew around a penny on masking tape to give me the circle, the second one was more free from 😜. AKA scribbled.

The one thing I must do is check the lighter colours are clean before scribbling. I messed up the water a bit whilst trying to clean up the more orange one. It may get hit with white, I am yet to decide. It will definitely have some birds.

I am not worrying too much,  I am just chilling and making a bloody mess of the kitchen table! 😂

I evidently got carried away and did another one

Still need to work on the blending at the base of the hills. But at least you can see what it is meant to be.

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Woohoo Painting

Yes I actually got around to putting a paintbrush to some miniatures this evening.

Sixteen Militia part done. These are very rough and ready but look okay at a distance of about three metres.

I will hopefully carry on tomorrow evening. That will leave another fourteen at the white stage. I actually can’t remember who the manufacture is. Part of me thinks Blue Moon as they come in packs of thirty.

I also got my Florentine troops undercoated. They will be next up I think.

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Cannons, Crayons and Crap

Well this evening I eventually got around to sticking my Florentine Cannon onto a 40mm base. It turns out Wargames Atlantic do them so got this done.

I found a couple of random cannons in a bag, got all excited built them then realised they were at least 20mm ones. So back to printing a couple.

I also had another bash at my soft pastels…

Not happy with the black, but only third attempt at using them so getting there.

And Finally more stuff got shoved into the shed…

Come to think of it, there won’t be any printing happening in there any time soon! Bugger!

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A Shed Full of Stuff and Some Art.

Okay I have decided that I have too much stuff. I have been having a sort out and have gradually started to move my gear from various locations into my little shed.  I can just about get in there now and have still got shit loads to squeeze in.

Actually I have started being a bit brutal and certain 3D prints have gone the journey.

Sadly the miniatures are pretty much unusable as they are to brittle and the hex tiles have started to extrude what looks like salt. So in a bin bag they went.

It’s a pity but they would never be used.

I went into Aberdeen on the boat with my daughter for her hospital appointment. We had some shopping time so I bought some oil pastels as well as some soft (chalk) pastels. I got off this morning and had a play around with the soft ones.

Weird Salt like stuff on the prints.
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Barbarians Built

Well I decided to get these finished.

As you can see they brought a couple of little friends with them. Not exactly a dread hunting pack. Where someone else might have bears or wolves they have  a pair of foxes. Wolves I have plenty of. Foxes…two!

The one thing that kind of bugged me with these were the way the bits were fastened to the sprue.

Bugged is maybe too strong a word, luckily I have sharp cutters and files. Trying to get these off with a knife would have been an absolute sod. It literally is 25% of the base of the arm. There were others just as bad.

So maybe I will get to start painting stuff again sometime.  I have forced myself off the console and onto the kitchen table to get back into things again. The backlog is starting to pile up. I was going to say ‘again’ there, but higher is probably a better description.