That’s it, they are all done …
I went for reds with this lot. They fit in nicely with the rest of them…
A very colourful lot… probably shouldn’t be as they are obviously skeletons. I wanted them to be different colours to allow for identification on the table… that is my excuse and I am sticking to it.
Whilst mooching about for nothing in particular I came across these rather old magazines.
The one on the left was quite appropriate for this evening’s painting session.
Four to go.
As can be seen, I went for the green this time. Not sure what colour the remaining four shall be.
The astute of you will have notice the Yumi on the right hand skeleton has snapped off. I pretty much knocked it with my brush and off it shot never to be seen again.
The four remaining ones will bring the monster hunter forces to an end… then back to the 6mm Italian wars I think…. If I can face them that is.
I managed another five skeleton Samurai this evening. I went for an orange colour for the robes this time. Tomorrow I will go for a green colour. These are nice and quick to paint…okay I could spend longer and do a lot more work on them.. but hey I want them finished.
The other I thing I did this evening was to get the greenstuff done on the officer’s arm. He now has a nicely shaped tunic rather than a missing lump.
Fourteen to go… as you can see I managed to get the paints and brushes out this evening.
I am doing these in batches of five (and a four). This means that I am batch painting tunic colours. The majority of these have the blue grey colour on them. It was meant to be all of them, but somehow I put the paint down, totally forgot what colour I had just been using and chose a blue instead.
I am hoping that tomorrow I will get some more done.
A lot of this evening was spent battling with the insurers. In my policy I get a hire car, the repairs were approved on the 17th and I am still waiting for my hire car from them. Evidently it is tough shit that I am having to pay for a hire car myself while they wait to find me one. Evidently they sub contract to another company tgst doesn’t have anything to do with Shetland and although the claims lass said that us it, your request for a car gas gone through, the other side are denying all knowledge. In case you are wondering… they aren’t going to pay for the one I am already having to fork out for. Time for a new insurer methinks.
I got this pair finished this evening…
This was the only pair of these I had to paint. They were pretty quick to do.
So yesterday I said I had half a dozen skeletons to paint… evidently I cannot count…
Looks like there are twenty to make a start on this weekend. Thanks to John for pointing out that there are only nineteen skeletons to do. As one of my little ones said in class the other day ” him is good at maths.” Check out his blog Here.
This evening I got a few more Monster Hunter minis out of box and set to work. My original plan was to get the seven of them started, but instead I went for finishing four of them. These are, for want of a better term, a goblin command set of: mage, standard and commander. The other one finished was a human mountain hermit.
On the left are a couple of Kappa and on the right a demonic Samurai.
Now for fun I looked up the Kanji for Goblin… the flag should say goblin, but with my painting ability it might just say trombone, but the thought was there.
Tomorrow I will try and get the next three done, then I am onto a dozen or so skeleton Samurai.
Painting this evening was done with very painful index fingers on both hands. It looks like I have an infection under the nail on both of them. My left hand actually hurts to even gently touch it, well as it is swollen it is not surprising. I really think I should go and annoy the doctor sometime as this keeps on happening.
This evening I got go work on some humans of various types
Obviously there is still a long way to go, but I am getting there. As I had some basing gunk going spare yesterday then I shoved it on this lot.
I hope to get this little bunch finished tomorrow.
Tonight got the spider demons and oni finished. I then sorted out some basing gunk… aka PVA, sawdust and brown paint.
As I couldn’t find my spatula it went on with an old brush…
Yesterday and today I got on with basing some of the 6mm samurai, well actually the ashigaru (both yumi and teppo). My original plan was to plonk eight miniatures per base, however they wouldn’t really fit on the 20 x 40mm bases so in the end I glued only four on each.
Above we have the teppo armed ashigaru. I have the same number armed with the yumi. So 48 bases in total.
With the same four to a base then there will be the same number of Yari armed ashigaru.
Now interestingly enough I don’t seem to have any samurai infantry. If you remember a while a go I said I seemed to be missing some cavalry . I have rechecked and there aren’t any missing. It looks like both were in the same bag. Each one is meant to have 18 minis in and I have 36… I cannot find the three packs of foot samurai, that should be there.
Now as you know, I love my 3D printer, so I was quite excited to see these…https://projectwargaming.com/collections/samurai
Lots to choose from 😉.
We had another good day today, it rained a bit so we played plenty of games. We gave Munchin Quest a go… first two monsters were a level sixteen and eighteen. Luckily for us they ignore low level Munchkins!
Tonight I managed to slap some paint on the samurai.
As I had been mooching about for the missing cavalry I did come across some of the Irregular individual miniatures. They aren’t too bad compared to the Baccus ones. It’s a real pity that the 2D6 ones are so tiny, they are really nice miniatures but don’t really compare to the others.
Today I got a parcel all the way from China… it was full of paint brushes, well around twenty of them. Now I honestly cannot remember ordering any brushes, apart from the ones from Wish about a year and a half ago. This leaves two options, first and most likely… I am a pillock and have a memory like a sieve, second is that I have received a random package of paint brushes from China.
On a totally different note, the printer seems to be hanging in there. The pole arms came out absolutely fine, so this evening I am printing a couple of ram cavalry… I am going for two at a time 🤞. Hopefully by tomorrow I should have four of them in total.
Well one day to go and the cough has started as well as the sniffles. Not a happy Bunny!
Bogenwald 