Lots of colours on show this evening.
Pretty Skies
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.
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…
A Bit of Grey, Metal and Skin
Yes I got a bit more done this evening…
The female guard was not re-undercoated, I actually thought Sod it. She can’t help it if everyone else has their tabard upside down or back to front!
I am now off for a week, got a ton of DIY to do, but hopefully will have enough free time to get making stuff for my course which starts on Sat 7th November….eek!
As all the cool kids are using a Proxxon hot wire cutter I have ordered one, along with a pile of other bits and pieces. Mainly from Temu as I decided to miss out the middle man and get the cheap shit direct.
Blue, White, Orange and Whoops!
I am a bit knackered today but decided to paint something.
As the civilians and guards were Undercoated then they seemed suitable.
Well off I set…
Did a few civilians in the blue then decided as the blue was out already went for Lady Merron’s guards as these are quartered blue and white. I did the female guard first, then did everyone else the other way around…. I did swear a bit!
Typical that these are the off white undercoat, but as it is just her (oh and part of one leg on another) I will just use white…
Knights Done
I ran 7 hours of moving and handling training today so was a bit zonked. I did manage to get the knights finished off…
As you can see from the first pic, it is always a good idea to check both sides before deciding they are painted.
My Temu order arrived, cheapskate I know, but ..
Anyway I got a tiny mitre block that was 3D printed and sadly it is a bit warped…
It’s really hard to photograph a curve, to make it look like one so I grabbed the straightest thing I could find. I have shoved it under something heavy to try and flatten it out. It was dirt cheap so not stressing too much
I ordered some cheap stuff for my course which begins in a month!
If Aliens Arrived
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them?
Well likelihood is I wouldn’t have a chance as some trigger happy idiot would shoot them… But if somehow they weren’t mercilessly gunned down I would ask if they fancied a cuppa.
Not very original I know, but they have potentially had a long journey and it is good manners to offer them a drink.
A Few Finishing Touches
Worked on the base rims this evening and then onto the knights who are almost finished…
I will get the knights finished tomorrow then onto the rest of the civilians and guards.
My Philosophy
What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by?
Come and sit at my feet and hear my wisdom….
I firmly believe in the saying:
“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice;”
I honestly don’t care about your race, religion, creed or sexual orientation… All I care about is whether you are nice.
Sorry, you trudged all this way for that!
Other Guru’s and Wise Ones are available.
Zulus… Thousands of them….
Well okay, about seventy six would be a closer estimate.
So my Wargames Illustrated came with a ‘free’ sprue of the new Warlord Games Range of Smaller scale Black Powder.
Do I like them… Yes.
Am I going to get any…sadly No.
At £250 for Isandlwana and £220 for Rorkes Drift then they are outside my pocket money range. A brigade box is about £31.00.
These will not fit into any other range of miniatures both size wise and stylistically.
So as much as I love the Zulu Wars I will have to give them a miss….
