The boat is heaving, with people not necessarily the sea… That will no doubt come when we hit the fair Isle Channel…
So we are trying out the lie flat pod things…an inch or two wider would have been nicer. But these are cheaper than a bed and more expensive than a recliner seat thing…. Oh and about £400 cheaper than the plane…so …
Mine is still in the upright position with the footstool thing awaiting the bed. Once flat they look like those opposite.
Yes I have had a little painting session this morning and got my armour all finished on this lot.
I would have got everyone’s boots and accoutrements done, but I really, really should sort out for going on the boat tonight.
Apart from the cavalry commander and the helmets that is the last of the armour done this evening…
I actually tried the enchanted steel…
To be honest I am not seeing a huge difference…there is something there, but nothing stunning…Polished Silver might work better.
The command is going to be golden as befits his status.
On the boat tomorrow night so I might not get a huge amount done.
What’s a song lyric that has stuck with you forever?
Well I used songs to give to my younger self I. An earlier prompt… At least it wasn’t an expressive dance!
So ever since I heard these they have stuck with me…
Those who feel the breath of sadness
Sit down next to me
Those who find they’re touched by madness
Sit down next to me
Those who find themselves ridiculous
Sit down next to me
And if we want to go back a bit to my younger days…
Streets of London
Have you seen the old man
Outside the seaman’s mission
Memory fading with
The medal ribbons that he wears?
In our winter city
The rain cries a little pity
For one more forgotten hero
And a world that doesn’t care
Funnily enough, it was originally going to be the Streets of Paris.
This verse is the one I can’t sing without having a little wobble in my voice.🥹
Well this evening I decided to get a wiggle on and start painting the armour.
I haven’t bothered with the helmets yet as part of me is thinking I will do them a different metallic colour. I am thinking of enchanted steel. It has more of a blue metallic sheen.
As the Venetian ambassador already has a couple of troops on his base then this will give me the opportunity to try something on a separate base… Clever or what!
So that is about half of them got the body armour done. More online training tomorrow so hopefully the rest will be finished to at least the same stage.
If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose?
You know this is actually quite hard, there are a few books that bug me. Maybe not so much of the ending, but recurring, nemesis, characters in a series. I am thinking of Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharp series here. I don’t know why but his reappearance bugs me.
But in reality what right do I have to change someone else’s story. I wouldn’t change things, but I might like to see another few chapters…
I have just finished Jurrassic Park… There could have been other survivors… What happened when the military arrived. Oh and why did the film kill off Muldoon? How long were Grant and Saddler kept against their will…etc, etc,etc.
Talking of Jurrassic Park, the one thing that really, really bugs me is Michael Criton’s overuse of the word ‘said’!
I was teaching six and seven year olds to use words instead of ‘said’…
I actually read a few other people’s ideas and I did like this rewrite…
https://greatthingstaketimebepateint.wordpress.com
So maybe write my own additional chapters, or possibly write my own book. Twenty or so years ago I started doing so accidentally. I set homework for my kids in my class to write the start of a story and said to make it fair I would do the same. The kids loved mine so much that it became my homework every weekend to carry it on.
I have a hard copy of about 20,000 of the 40 odd thousand words that I wrote. One day, ha ha, I will get it finished!
Everyone has now got their legs coloured as well as their coats done too *.
In a little while I shall get the flesh done… Or at least as much as I can get done before boredom, cramp or an Alien Invasion happens… More likely the dog will want attention than the latter but… You never know.
Addendum17:00 GMT…
That’s the skin all done, with the usual caveat of…I am bound to have missed something. I had in fact missed a coat sleeve and when I went to find it then I reckon he hid behind someone else to avoid getting coloured.
The one thing about online training is it allows one to do productive things with your hands.
Well look at me go…
That is the hose and pantaloons on this lot done…
Leaving five bases of cavalry and three guns of different types. The super light crew were done this evening as I didn’t want to waste paint lol.
I go off on the boat on Thursday night. So I basically have three evenings to get as much of these done before I disappear for a few days and come back with loads more projects…
Speaking of projects…
I evidently got a parcel yesterday, just everyone forgot to tell me!
I totally forgot I backed this on Kickstarter… Well technically not true, they, like a lot of things were caught up in Humpty Trumpty’s trade war, as well as his actual war. Well at least I got it, so can’t complain.
Well as you know I have made a start on the Florentine forces. In the back of my mind I thought I had got some of the new Militia.
I decided that I hadn’t bothered as they were pretty much the same as the mercenary troops, but with a leather jerkin and no feathers.
Evidently I was wrong… Whilst looking for my ‘Death of the Landsnekht’ book…(I spent so long looking for it that I forgot why I wanted it!).
But I digress… Whilst mooching through my crap I came across a box….
I swore!
I have just about got myself motivated to paint the originals. So I would seem to have a pike block of nine bases. Some form of command set and the rest are shot ( four bases of close, or two and three of skirmish/two close).
One of halberd and two of sword and buckler men.
So basically another sixty miniatures to paint. I am once again a bit disappointed by the quality control. Considering this is a brand new mold it’s a bit of a mess.
Some of the bases have holes in them and the vent on a lot of them will need a file taken to the bottom.
Somehow I was beginning to persuade myself that I really needed some Spanish, French or possibly a Papal army. I must be off my head.
Luckily Claymore is on the first so no doubt I will find lots of new shiny things to add to the pile of crap.
So, if you remember yesterday I painted the trousers and hose of my Pikes and ended up getting cramp so had to pack in.
Well I needed to finish three bases out of the nine. Now I thought I had chosen them randomly… Earlier when I went to finish them I came across this conundrum…
One front rank and two back ranks. So was my random actually actually or was there some form of unconscious choice being made.
I am now trying to remember, exactly how I placed them and picked them up.
To avoid wasting paint I got the arqubusiers clothing done too and used up the rest on random stuff off the tray
Now because there are only sixteen miniatures their random trousers colours are less than random when compared to the pikes. I suddenly realised there was one colour left to do and not enough miniatures…
I will carry on later on.
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