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Coincidence

What’s the weirdest coincidence you’ve ever experienced?

Well not sure if it is a coincidence or just a very small world. So this is me in about 1991 on my first day as a reenactor. The weird coincidence is that my future wife is sat on the slope behind me.  I didn’t know her and she didn’t know me.

Found the photo after we were married and she told me then.

Here she is in Poland…the short lady in white trousers next to the big horse. She got the largest and I got the smallest 😂. Obviously we are not Romans in the second photo.

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It’s Like Waiting for Buses…

Two arrive at once!

Well today I decided to undercoat this lot as my Alternative Armies box hadn’t arrived.

I was waiting for the undercoat to cure when my son walked in with the post!

These are the remaining militia. I based them up and they are now undercoated. I will make a start on them tomorrow.

Borgia hasn’t been based because his doppelganger came too…

There is meant to be one mounted and one on foot… A slight packing error methinks. Ah well. One less base to paint for now

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An unfinished Book

What’s a book you never finished but still think about?

To be honest there are quite a lot. Some were accidental and others deliberate.

One that I would like to reread and finish one day is ‘A Boy and his Bear’ by Harriet Graham.

Years ago as a class teacher we read this as part of our topic on the Tudors and Stewarts. For some reason we never got to finish it…

Basically set in Tudor England..Dickon lives in a cruel time when wild bears are made to fight by men for sport. He meets a recently captured bear cub, and is determined to set Nounou free. But the path to freedom is littered with danger for both the boy and his bear.

A second one was a western I got out the library as a kid and some absolute Arse had removed the last page with a scalpel or something… I can’t remember the book, but the fact the last page was gone is what reminds me.

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Tinkering

Well that is what my wife calls it  (oooh err missus).

Today we had a shoe rack collapse. Sadly the thing we paid £1 in a charity shop…err didn’t make it.

So this afternoon I made one out of wood. It was designed to fit in a certain spot and actually I am quite pleased with it …

This cost pretty much nothing as it utilised a pile of wood I had lying around.

I was a bit pooped after sorting this so no model making or painting this evening.

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Bloody Hell

This just popped up in my Jetpack Memory thing…

Hopefully, I will be adding to this blog as I work my way through my lead mountain. I will be adding posts as I build my terrain or get some painting done.

26th August 2017… This blog has been going nine years…zoiks!

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A Fictional Vacation

Which fictional world would be the most fun to vacation in?

Well there are a few I could think of… What about the Wizarding World… But as I seem to be a Muggle then errrrr maybe I am already in it…

So that leaves me with Middle Earth or Diskworld…

I would be happy to visit both, but as Tolkien has a world riven by strife then off to Ankh Morpork I go….

Luckily I have my map of the city to help me avoid the Shades!

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Almost…..

Yep, this lot just need the base edges painted black and the flags shoved on and that’s them finished.

Then the remaining miniatures when they arrive.

I will flock them all together rather than in two bits.

Now I still have one base sitting there with Two of the three miniatures glued on. I realised there was a load of flash that still needed removing… I then noticed something odd on the back of the miniatures…

I checked the others still in the white metal stage.

They pretty much all look like this…

Sadly the other ones in the same pose  in the mercenary unit  and in this lot have the undercoat on and then have been painted. I can just about see the pattern on the banner holder.

I can honestly say I have never seen anything like this on miniatures before… Well this isn’t exactly true as I see it occasionally on 3D printed stuff.

Now I am not saying that these are printed then moulded, but I wonder if there has been some form of vibration as they were spun cast. As I have said before these are probably the worst miniatures with regards to flash and vent nubs/wires.

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Metalwork Done

Well this evening I got the pikes done as well as the majority of the metal stuff on the miniatures.

Still to do is the bronze bits for the swords and trumpet as well as the colourful sash on the officer.

Then onto the bases….

Oh and as I expected… My extra miniatures were posted today lol.

I had better speed up lol!

I need to sort out more flags for the above and the extras… I reckon 6-8 will do me.

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Getting There…

Well this evening I got a bit more done on the militia. Boots, scabbards and firearms done.

Pikes, helmets and metalwork left… Oh yeah and their annoying dagger on the front.

A couple more evenings and I reckon these will be finished… Ready for the rest to arrive!

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Skin Done

Well this morning before breakfast I got all of their hands and faces painted…

Weapons, boots and helmets left to do.

Trying to work out what colour to do the pikes. Probably just a plain wood colour, I am thinking, as befits a militia armed by a city state. They really aren’t going to be splashing out the gold on what is basically a pointy stick.

Hopefully I will get on with more painting later on.