So it begins…
As I said yesterday, I have ordered a few more miniatures. 2 bases of pikes, a few bits and bobs to go along with these.
Thankfully not as many as the Mercenary force. I definitely will need more flags. These are just going to have the white version.
If nothing else then it will give another player a small force to play with.
If I can be bothered I will get these sprayed in a while.
Well sort of!
Front and back of the bases are black. Sadly the sides are still white. Still got some vents to snip off and silver ends put on the cut down pikes.
Final Job is varnish time.
After much hunting, cursing and general harrumphing I managed to locate the Militia. Only to find I was short a few miniatures. I have decided to go for a mounted command, as well as adding the missing models. Now either I miscounted the first time round or I had a different plan on how they would be based. The problem with the latter is that no matter how I try to work it out I am still short on Rear rank pikes and shot. Therefore I am going to have to say I am crap at counting.
I mean there is a vague, outside chance I didn’t get what I ordered, but that is highly unlikely.
I just hope the next lot aren’t an absolute mess like the others.
Well I was hoping to get the Florentine forces finished this evening but the bases are still tacky from where I splashed the water/PVA mix about.
So I cut out all the flags I had, ready to get them clashed on the banner poles when the bases dry.
I wanted lots of flags, I ended up with only thirteen. I will have to organise more I think… Tomorrow will tell.
Which author would you love to have dinner with?
First off, do I have a favourite author, yes indeed, I do love my Terry Pratchett books, but would I want to have dinner with him… probably not to be honest
I would in all honesty like to have a bit of a chat with JRR Tolkien. So many questions… He would probably hate to have dinner with me.
Feeling quite pleased with myself that although I am knackered this evening I got my finger out and got the bases covered….
Hopefully I will get the base edges painted tomorrow and the flags done too.
Well I managed to sort of get a photo of the eclipse earlier on.
Luckily as the clouds rolled in then it filtered the light a bit and I achieved the above shot.
Been too much craft on recently for me to finish my Florentine troops. Hopefully I will get back on with them tomorrow.
If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
The winning lottery ticket numbers are….
Yes I know money doesn’t buy happiness but it is comfier to cry in a limousine than on a bicycle.
Can you tell I am having one of those days in work!
In reality I would say something along the lines of.
Be kind to yourself. Shouting at a flower won’t make it grow.
I popped over to see my mate Mike earlier and along with some very nice soup and wargaming chat I came back with a supply package as he is trying to downsize…
He has handed over his French and Indian wars collection. Which was very kind of him. As he said, the only person he will play against is me.
This evening I decided to get on with the Florentine forces.
Skeleton Brown Dipping inks is the base layer as shown below…
Tomorrow I will hopefully get the patchy planes shoved onto the bases, then flagged and varnished…
Speaking of varnish… Earlier I went to put a second layer of mat varnish on something and somehow managed to pick up a can of black, shook it for ages and somehow missed anything important. The grass looks a bit burnt, but that can be flocked over.
Onto the Militia soon!
I hope!
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?
I come from this after thirty-four years in education. Primarily in primary but with forays into secondary. Last Ten were in senior management.
The one absolute is:
CRITICAL THINKING
Ye gods it would certainly assist in the amount of stupidity you see flying around.
In the old days you would see it from the man in the pub or papers like the Daily Heil in the UK. Now we have Social Media and outlets like Fox News, GB News… Other outlets are available.
Now we have generative AI with political parties using it to forward their aims.
Discovery channel with their made up documentary shows. Sorry there are other channels too but I just woke up.
I remember watching their Shark week one on the Meg.I mean it should have had the tagline: This is a true story. Only the facts have been changed to protect the innocent!
Ended up in a discussion with a few kids after that one about how it was all made up… On the upside we ended up doing a project on Ancient Life… So I took the win 🤗
Watched something the other day where a guy was arguing that 88% of Muslim women couldn’t speak English. When statistics show that it is 88% can speak it very well,
And let’s not get into politics…
I now need to get going so I will end here with a final thought.
In the words of the great Aretha Franklin…”THINK!”
