The title says it all really. Today I had to visit my potential replacement schools. It was really stressful. Everyone knew why I was there which really didn’t help.
So I threw a bit of paint on some of the industrial pallet miniatures. My phone was charging so no photos.
Today I took my older pupils on rhe Swan. She was built in 1900 and was rescued from Hartlepool in the 1990’s
She was built as a Herring fishing boat. One of 400. She is now one of 8.
It was a gorgeous day and we coveted 11.2 nautical miles.
Once we got round the island of Vaila then we did hit a bit of choppiness!
This evening I was on puppy duty, This is basically following each other around waiting for one or the other to need the toilet. Quite a bit of it was Maggie was asleep on me so I couldn’t move.
I therefore didn’t get as much done as I wanted, but managed more than I expected…
Still a bit to go but definitely getting there.
Now doing a bit of research into what the thing was called I found out some new boring facts.
Firstly they are sacred spaces and offerings are buried in the centre. I knew they had a link to shinto but not that much. Secondly, I never knew women were forbidden… now I know why there are no female Sumo wrestlers 🤼♂️. Thirdly, knew they threw something white around before the bout, evidently it is salt.
There you go, boring facts that may help you win a pub quiz or trivial pursuit.
After this bit…so I had a blast at getting a bit of painting done. I chose these to make a start on.
It was actually a bit of a struggle to get motivated. I need to get the Sumo ring painted by Wednesday for my mates birthday.
On a totally different and very exciting note… we have a new family member… Meet Maggie.
She arrived this morning. Esther and one of the kids went down to Aberdeen to pick her up from the SSPCA. Poor little soul was found near a large body of water with a lot of scars and a broken tail. The rescue centre’s hypothesis was that someone tried to chuck her in by her tail. She is about 5 months old.
This evening I set about filling the gaps in the Sumo Ring.
While doing so I realised it was much bigger than the small ruined house I made. With the help of the miniatures I realised that although a bit bigger it wasn’t super massive. I did it with a 60% reduction. Problem is o cannot remember by what amount reduced the house by. I really, really should write this stuff down, or at least put it in the same place!
So I decided to print a couple of the motorbikes from Pront Minis. These once again are going to be abandoned…
Under the wheels are some Nissan huts and gun emplacements for Jon’s game. At the top is a power maul from some ‘sort of’ Arbite’s.
This evening I fought with the PC to download some more miniatures for the Geek Club. I eventually got some stuff sliced and printed, but too late to take them in tomorrow.
I couldn’t find any of my Vallejo Air that had WW2 German armour colours among the ranks so I did the next best thing… Contrast fir the tracks, Xpress colour for the German and Speedpaint for the British.
Not perfect, but they will do …apologies to any purists out there.
So tomorrow I find out where is available for me to move onto… for those that have been following for a while, they decided to go with HQ and my little school is to shut and my most amazing team are being redeployed, as am I for that matter. None of us want to go, but have no choice. As an officer of the council I have to be careful what I say, but it is an absolute crying shame (feel free to add in any expletives you see fit).
This evening I sorted out the Sumo ring and associated ponds. Sadly with the ponds I had some issues around bulging and warping. I could reprint them, but to be honest I will sort out any issues with Greenstuff.
I evidently printed the roof pair with the orientation wrong. I also forgot to hollow them. I have a bulging the part facing each other. I have sanded them and used a file to reduce it a bit, but still have a bit of a gap. Once again I will use Greenstuff to fill the gap.
I also printed a trio of tanks for a colleague who is making a rather fabulous 3D map to play an invasion of Shetland game with his secondary pupils. These are to show the kids what they looked like.
Well this evening I went a bit wild and undercoated whatever I could find black. This was mainly terrain.
I also did more printing, this time it is a Sumo ring in 15mm for my mates birthday next week. I already printed and cured the street fish ponds. An image can be found Here
Well I picked up some filament in a charity shop really cheaply, I wish I had got the other three rolls, but didn’t. By time I got back they had gone.
Sadly they weren’t in grey, I hot the most staid of them with green.
Here is my first print with it
It’s just shy of 7 inches tall and printed in four or five bits. I cannot actually remember.
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