Well the rest of my Christmas present (or rather what I bought with my pennies) came today.

It has to be one of my favourite early war armoured fighting vehicles alongside the MkII and 222 armoured car.

This is obviously just on the German side… I will have to think about the opposition.

It is the Lerwick Up Helly Aa today. As usual wind and rain… Here is a pic I blagged from the internet. At least it shows off their costume nicely.

There is a livestream too it can be found on YouTube. One of my kids has gone along to watch, but to be honest it not my thing. I have been a couple of times and that will do for me.

The shape is definitely getting there…

I will need to do a fair old bit of sanding as well as sorting out the flat end. That little bump is annoying me.

It’s got a 250ml bottle of rice in it to give it a bit of weight.

Or so they say…we will have to see…

For those that have followed me for a while you will know I tend  to (actually always) use Speedpaints over a white undercoat. Well hold onto your knickers, I have changed undercoat colour.

This had better work, it cost me  £15.00.

I have mostly been working on a prop for a theatre company today. They want a stone hot water bottle, that isn’t made of stone.

It is getting there slowly. Quite a lot of trial and error and a minor burn got me to this point. To be honest it is now further on than in this photo.

Luckily the dog chose the right sprue to have a chomp on…

Not even sure how she got to it….

Well I have done very little over the past few days…so little in fact that sod all would be a better description. Didn’t even get around to getting the light box out.

I did however manage to glue some skeletons together…

Now I have an inkling that these are early Mantic. Really not sure. The majority come in two bits, legs with back then chest and rest.

They do fit in better than GW ones with the Wargames Atlantic stuff I have been building of late. The ones with an open hand can either be given a spear or sword.

A few of them have a separate weapon arm and head choice.

Well I got a parcel in the post today. It pretty much used up half of my Christmas pennies.

As you might recall I have one or two knightly types and their retinues. I have been trying to get their designs on their shields, banners and other bits and pieces.

They have been waiting an absolute age, this is a small amount of the force.

But over a while I have been after some reusable stamps and eventually Goblin Hobbies have added the UK to their shipping destinations.

So here is what came in the box…

Two plates, two colours, a scraper and a stamping tool.

The set wasn’t the most expensive thing ever… Tax and postage raised it a fair old bit.

Now Goblin Hobbies is an American company and when I saw the shipping and tax at that price I thought it must be coming direct from the states. I was wrong. Not sure how I feel about it to be honest.

I was wanting to get going as soon as it came, but I am writing this now rather than later as I was worried I might fall asleep. So will give it a bash this weekend.

Still waiting on the other half of my Christmas cash spending to arrive.

Well I never, the mini lightbox worked fine. As I was trying to do other things then I just used one coloured insert. I picked blue as it was on the top.

So here are my ten fanatics in their (hopefully) well lit glory…

Whatever it is, it is a hell of a lot better than this…

Or this now I come to think of it…

The box itself is about a foot square. As you can see above it’s not too bad for up to a dozen miniatures.

Obviously I will have to have a proper test with all of the coloured backgrounds as well as the different light settings.