This evening I managed to get my finger out and finish off the goblins. I am going to have to add a brighter edge on the weapons.
There are also a few touch ups that I need to do on some of them. The bases also need a bit of colour.
I will hopefully manage this tomorrow. My eldest is doing their first concert for their music course tomorrow evening so the painting may have to wait.
A bit of a mixture of topics. I decided I had better add some painting back in in case you all thought it had become a medical blog.
So yes I got the goblins and paints out and made some progress, not as much as I would have liked, but progress is still progress…
It is mainly just the metalwork to do and the back of the shields. I would have got further but my daughter was off getting sweeties from random strangers for Hallowe’en, so dad’s taxi was requested to bring them home.
So finally, a FB friend shared this. Now I am not 100% sure, but I believe a comma would help make the sentence mean what she meant.
Now I suppose if I need to or have to then okay, but I believe she meant let’s ride, witches. Punctuation is important… if you remove the capital letter then the following sentence has a totally different meaning…
‘I am going to help my Uncle Jack off his horse!’
Tomorrow back to the goblins… I hope
Oh yeah, evidently I have shrunk. I was measured yesterday and have lost about an inch and a half in height!
So today is my bone density scan day. Arrived early for the appointment… I would like to say that the waiting area is crap. Good job I am not getting a body temperature scan… every time I move, this happens….
The seats are uncomfortable so I keep shuffling. There is no heating in this bit and the outdoor temperature is really chilly.
They have a mobile scanner up and this doorway is the closest to the truck. I shouldn’t really complain as it is free.
Sadly I managed to agitate my poly myalgia today. Basically the track needed re levelling. Basically it was time for its biannual digger visit. Even though I was sat in said digger I still managed to set everything aching. I therefore managed no painting this evening.
This evening I realised that I couldn’t get any more files onto my first external hard drive as it was full. This prompted me to have a bit of a sort out. Seemed I had multiple identical files on the drive. This actually took a lot longer than I thought it would.
I have noticed something of late to do with my Mini Factory. I follow a few designers, by a few I mean twenty odd. A while ago I got a free month of a designer’s Tribe (basically Patreon on MMF), this has happened a few more times. Actually for the last two I didn’t bother as they didn’t interest me. This week one of the ones I follow was offering 50% off. I got the same from another one last week too. It may be a coincidence, but I will now keep an eye on it
Finally… I still haven’t printed anything. Still painting the stuff I already have.
This evening I was a bit pooped and really couldn’t be bothered to paint anything.
I did force myself to do a bit so spent a little time painting the tunics on the rank and file.
To speed things up I painted them all a grey colour. Basically they are all in un-dyed cloth.
Hopefully I will crack on tomorrow and get a fair bit done.
This evening I managed to get some work done on the goblins.
I shall carry on with these tomorrow. There is still a lot to do… especially on the ones in the background. The one with the log for the helmet is a total repaint. The middle one and him are pretty much finished now.
Tonight I got the pole armed goblins from out of their box. I then spent an absolute age trying to find some missing ones.
I eventually decided that I didn’t have them and made do with some spares from the other sets.
In the box were my Mordheim Sisters. I never liked how these were painted so they have been white washed too.
I will hopefully make a start on them tomorrow.
There are two units of twelve in the background. I think I have four foot units (including the unpainted one). They are spread all of the place.
When I say done, I mean the seven that I had undercoated.
Here they are robbing out the stones from the wall.
I also got the frogs done too.
For these photos I decided to try out my background book…
I also used one of my battle mats. To go onto the table.. I am pleased with how it looks for both photos.
I will probably do the dozen goblins with spears next. Well I need them done as soon as possible as Highland Miniatures are bringing out orks next month. I am liking what I see so far.
This is a lot of grey plastic…
Is it too late to change my mind?
I know I like 3D printing, but, apart from the toxic chemicals, I reckon building these won’t have really taken much less time if any. (This is not including printing time).
I will consider bases tomorrow..
I decided I couldn’t be bothered to paint anything this evening. My wife is packing for a work trip. My eldest is filling in forms for their new job and one of the others is trying to get some homework done.
I will get back on with the goblins tomorrow.
Bogenwald 