Even though I am spending far too much time playing Fallout 76; I still managed to paint this pair this evening.
The collar was done with thr same light blue and it does make Barkhoven look like he has blue ears.
I cannot remember what the other one us, one of the civilian range from Alternative Armies, but as to the race… not a clue.
So this came in the post yesterday.
I love Bill Making stuff on YouTube. This is his game that is a collaboration with Apocrypha Now. I doubt I will actually build any of the bots within. I just felt it was a good way to support both channels.
Yes eventually I got my finger out and picked up a paint brush and got the ghost bride up to the basing stage.
I think the ideas in my head transferred to the miniature. In fact I think it is an improvement on my own original one. For one thing I was a bit more adventurous in adding other colours.The red eyes are not evil in my mind… just the poor lass has been stood up at the alter and cried a great deal.
Funny I went green with my original and blue with the latest one.
This evening I got a pile more Flintloque undercoated for my mate.
I will hopefully get then started ASAP. Probably start with the ghostly bride as it will be an easy win.
There are also some armed police officers from WestWind I think. They are Prussianesque. These are to join this lot…
Not the most grammatically accurate title ever, but flipping heck I got some paint on a miniature…
A down and dirty 25 minute (if that) paint job. Geek Club started again today and as our cupboard was a total mess I tidied that before starting my painting. Will it win any prizes, nope, but a finished miniature is a finished miniature.
So says one of my favourite Terry Pratchett characters ‘Granny Weatherwax’.
So what have I been up to in my hiatus… sod all really. Well okay, I have discovered Fallout 76, as well as rebuilding in Fallout 4.
To be honest being knackered all the time hasn’t helped. I ended up back in the doctor’s yesterday because of it. So more blood tests are taking place next Tuesday, and a chest x-Ray sometime soon. Everyone is flummoxed as to what is wrong with me, including me. It could be a extension of the poly myalgia. The doctor is basically ruling out everything else. Thankfully we have the NHS, otherwise I would be skint.
So the bit of a bugger on the horizon is that the school will be closed in June and all of my staff and I will be redeployed elsewhere. Sadly, not together. Technically we are being mothballed, but….!
Funnily enough the doctor did wonder if there is a bit of a correlation between school closure and my poor health.
Tonight I decided to get the static grass put onto the Flintloque bases for my mate. As that was a bit of a quick job I decided to punch out the Battle System stone walls that I have had sitting on my shelf for a couple of years
Well with the snow, wind before the snow, and then after the snow I am surprised these arrived this month let alone the same day. I got two letters from the hospital that were sent a week apart that arrived today too. The second one said that the appointment in the first letter had been moved back a week.
You would imagine that after a week of the white stuff then I might have got a bit sick of it… out in the wild – yes! In the kitchen on miniature bases… not so much, but as I really dislike doing bases then … I might have to sit on the fence
So I forgot to take the photo at 15.00 today to compare the snow… this was taken up my track though!
Well it started snowing a week ago and it eventually stopped today at about 15.00. Last time I left the valley was Tuesday. All schools have been off, buses, ferries and aircraft have been cancelled too.
In all that time I did absolutely sod all hobby wise but I did clear the path a few times every day. Where I didn’t clear it we had 25cm (about 10 inches) of snow. The drifts up the track and along the roads were about twice that height.
We are classed as a category 3 road… we get done three days after it snows. Every year they turn up on the third or fourth day and end up in a ditch… this year was no different!!!
The other odd thing here is they grit but never put the plough blade down to ground level! This isn’t having a dig at the drivers as they do an amazing job. They are following orders. Snow like this and last year are unusual… last time was evidently 1993.
This was following the snow plough.
So because this is Shetland it is all meant to be gone by teatime tomorrow… 6°C and heavy rain. I took this photo at 15.15 today. I will take a comparison shot, same time tomorrow.
This evening I did manage to get the bases of these covered… when they are dry some of them will get snow added! As if I haven’t had enough of the bloody stuff…
Oh yeah because I am a total pillock I forgot about these…
I will flock them up tomorrow.
Bogenwald 