Well today was the first of the official Geek Club MKII. I had twelve of the thirteen turn up. The other wasnt feeling too good. Pretty much everyone got their mushroom dude either finished or nearly finished. Some decided to add flock to their base and others took them home.
I believe they enjoyed themselves… we will see next week!
Because I am a pillock, I forgot to photograph their hard work. So here is the sun rising over the hills on the way to work…
There certainly isn’t Mushroom in it…
Fifteen miniatures done for tomorrow’s Geek Club. We always start on the same one to help me show them what to do.
I do have another nine that got undercoated this evening. Unfortunately some of the bases hadn’t cured properly so I will blast them with the light tomorrow.
So this evening I got in at 21.30 because of a parents evening. I also needed fuel and needed to det the horse in. All in all, I really couldn’t be bothered to do much.
I did manage to get the last five miniatures off the printer for the new Geek Club.
Instead of an armed and dangerous teddy bear I went with a mushroom dude.
I just noticed it was blurry. He is one of a number from a new kickstarter I noticed and jumped on board to get some cool stuff for the club. I have thirteen signed up so far.
That about describes how I feel this evening… sadly no painting, building or even rule reading. I did however manage to 3D print some miniatures for the new Geek Club at the end of the week.
Not to be recommended… this evening I decided that I really needed to paint something. I managed to get so far before giving up as I was coughing my guts up throughout…
Hopefully the cough will have gone by tomorrow and I can carry on.
Well this evening I decided to hunt out my various Ancients rules.coukd I find them all? Could I like heck. Spent the whole evening hunting through the house.
I managed to find only a couple, so sadly no painting occurred. It didn’t help that I remembered Fallout 76… well it is research for the RPG…that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it.
Well my Victrix order arrived today and I got some of them built to see how they compare to the Warlord infantry and the Wargames Factory cavalry.
First up the infantry…
These would fit in well with the Warlord stuff. As it stands they probably be on their own as a pile of naked nutters bounding towards the Romans.
The cavalry are a different matter…
They won’t look too bad on the table, but I really doubt I will be able to match them in the same unit.
However, once again, these will be formed into their own units. The originals have no armour apart from the odd helmet, the Victrix ones are in mail. Therefore we have elites and more run of the mill types.
Either way these are a nice couple of sets.
The fanatics have four bodies and nine heads. Along with assorted weapon options.
The cavalry have three horse types, there are six halves but I haven’t tried to do different combinations. I would say not as the saddles are designed to fit a specific code.
These have four bodies and ten different head options. They come with seven crest options and a couple of cloaks.
Again lots of weapon options as well as three types of shield (well diameter of shield would be a better description). This is compared to the six the infantry have.
They go together well. Upon saying that, one body does have a right arm configuration which requires a certain selection of arms. Left hand weapons are also available as the musician shown has a gap for the right arm and a gap for the left hand.
The ones from yesterday have been undercoated. I am just waiting for the paint to cure.
Well my throat feels like sandpaper and I spent a fair bit of the earlier evening dozing off, but I did manage to do ten of the Warlord Celts….
I intended to make units of twelve as that is what Lion Rampant uses, then it dawned on me I could, shock horror, use different rules!
My new acquisitions did not come today so I can’t show you them.
I will add the two spare metal fanatics to these to bump them to the dozen…just in case😉.
I will get these and the three remaining cavalry undercoated tomorrow.
This evening I built the last three Wargames Factory cavalry. I think I chose better arns this time. The poses aren’t perfect, but certainly better than the last two.
I gave all three shields and shoved Warlord heads on a couple of the saddles. These have all got fancier helmets.
Once these are painted I will have twelve cavalry and four chariots.
Hopefully my other Celts come tomorrow… not sure why… I was going to build twelve of the Warlord infantry and couldn’t be arsed!
Ye God’s I am absolutely knackered this evening and the pain in my feet is back with a vengeance. I did however manage to finish the last chariot and charioteer.
I also finished the pair of cavalry. I have decided to mount the chariot warrior so cut the base from one of the Warlord miniatures and then built him up to fit in the chariot next to the driver.
I now have nine cavalry finished, this leaves three to go … well I think there were twelve in the pack.
I will try and get them built tomorrow, along with some more warriors on foot.
Bogenwald 