This evening I managed to get the ghouls finished…. Well I think I have. I thought I had finished and then realised there was a skull on the base that was unpainted!
There are two distinct colours. This is because there are two units here. this allows me to work out who has lost what casualties in a game.
I started these in October 2022 so, it is about time I got them finished.
Probably goblins next…
Well I got my arse into gear tonight and finished the skeletons….
I am still in two minds whether to add rust to these or not. I didn’t on any of the other ones in the army so perhaps not.
In the same box as the skeletons I found a dozen ghouls … I might as well do these next…
I will keep you posted.
This evening I got the part painted foot soldiers finished…
Now with these I did cut a few corners. I didn’t bother doing every strap and piece of rope. But they are done and that is what I am wanting. I don’t think I have any other Gallian’s undercoated.
Tomorrow I think I will blast on with the Part finished skeletons i found when looking for my big Sharpie.
Tonight I got the two knights finished … well I still need to do a shield for each. But the bulk is done for this pair.
I also got a bit done on the foot soldiers…
These still have a whole load to do, but at least all of them have some paint on them.
I am going to have to print some shields, even though I said I wasn’t going to print anything new for a while… I need the shields to finish these.
Well keeping to my word I did more painting this evening…
As I splurged too much AP plate metal out I also hunted the shelves for anything that needed doing metallic.
This pair are nearly done, I still have at least a couple of knights like these to do, the Joan of Arc type as well as all the foot. Probably Goblins after that as they are undercoated.
Well for a while anyway. I have decided to just halt printing for a while as I really have a bucketful of crap to paint.
I decided to make a start, by doing a smidge on the Gallians’s
I was just thinking today on what I need to paint and the light bulb came on. Stop printing and get painting. I will need to print some more stuff for the Geek Club, but to be honest I am really going to try and burn through some of my backlog.
Off the top of my head I have the following :
36 Goblin infantry plus a dozen cavalry
30 odd 15mm samurai and Koreans
About six knights and associated foot
Two full Mordheim Gangs, Sisters of Sigmar and a human group.
All the Vietnam gear
All the ironclads
À table full of buildings
24 skeleton infantry and a dozen cavalry
Oh yeah and the Gladiators.
To be honest this is what I can think of straight off. I am 100% sure there is more… this is only the printed stuff… I am not even thinking about the metal miniatures!
I really, really must kickstart my arse into painting again. I have new paint and brushes… I have pretty things to paint so perhaps I need to put them all together.
While the kids at Geek club were painting some awesome gladiators I decided to have a go at some zombies.
Will they win any prizes…. Nahhh. Did I do all three in forty minutes…Yeahh.
I shall actually paint the child’s T-shirt a different colour as it is hard enough keeping a white one clean on an alive kid, never mind an undead brain chomping one.
I do actually like simplified models… I am really not keen on models with tons of fiddly bits… I would much prefer to paint a mono-pose ork from the nineties than a modern GW one. Obviously this is personal preference and ‘Each to their Own’ as they say.
Or one poor Principal taking on his Geek Club
Last Friday in Geek club I took in my gladiator game and the three kids that were there loved it. Sadly I went down in a flurry of blows, but I must have done something right as the crowd let me live… close call there methinks.
This week I am printing Gladiators for them.
Well this evening my good lady eventually left me alone and I managed to get these finished…
The necklace one has its string on, sadly I cannot find the earring bits!
I managed to get some Japanese civilians done to go alongside the Ikko Ikki and Onna Bushi.
This evening I was knackered… the poly myalgia does make me tired at times. So rather than lots of swearing as I was trying to paint anything. Instead I went for an easy win and stuck miniatures to bases.
My chap to be is in the front with the boat on the helmet. It originally had a sword in it… but I removed it. Sadly I removed the tail too. I managed to use an old Mordheim archer arm to repair the damaged print (second from left).
I will get these sprayed tomorrow and hopefully get on with the painting.
Bogenwald 