To be honest, I never managed twelve hours, I got about six hours off and on as my back started to give up the ghost. So how far did I get….
So I finished off the dozen in the middle and the mage and got the next twenty four finished, apart from the white bit on the right hand banner.
I am going to carry on with the painting tomorrow and see how I get on. I got the zombies onto their bases as well as giving mr half head a new set of hair…
Still a whole load to do… a dozen wraiths, half a dozen cavalry plus a mounted Liche, the zombies and the dozen Boyar infantry too.
I then have the big Beasty to do. I got my air brush out for this one as I really didn’t fancy doing something this big with a 00 brush 😉.
I think that is everything that I have for the undead army.
Today I decided to sort out the problem of the undead mounts. Now if you remember with thec16th century stuff ihzd problems with the pikes snapping so to solve the problem I either mixed ordinary and flexible resin or as of late I bough in some stuff that had the flex built in…. move forward a couple of months and I purchase some undead mounts that are in awesome poses, with, in some cases only one foot on the floor as you can imagine semi flexible resin would not work so well with gravity…. so after a bit of a head scratch I came up with this plan…
Each mount is supported by a gravestone or something similar. This should hopefully help with the problem of gravity induced bending!
Joe and I had a good session paintingnthis evening and I managed to get a fair old way on with the skeleton unit…
Still a fair old bit of work to go but there is definitely less white showing now.
Tomorrow I have decided to do a twelve hour challenge. 10.00 – 22.00. I am going to see how many miniatures I can paint in that time… hopefully quite a few… well what else are holidays for but to do something foolish.
Now what undead army wouldn’t emmmm be errrr seen dead without Zombies. So here are some
villagers and warriors below.
There were eight villagers and only five warriors which is a little disappointing. I double up two by flipppng one over, top right and left for the villagers. Now these are really unique poses so really only those would work.
Now something weird happened to the warrior in the middle, well apart from being run through by a spear and coming back to life. There is a better view below…
As you can see the top of his head didn’t print absolutely no clue why, perhaps a glitch in the software. Now I did forget to drew the build plate down but as you can see the crossbow man came out fine!
I think I have now got a full army for Dragon Rampant. So after I have printed some 15mm Ronin then the printer is going to have a rest for a while whilst I paint them all up.
I even got my airbrush out to give the big beastie the once over. Haven’t used it for about four years so wish me luck.
Tonight I wanted to give the rust effect a go on something a bit bigger than an axe. Luckily I dropped my small brush down the back of all my boxes on my painting station. And voilà I found anold style Necromunda plastic wall.
Quick spray white and a cover with a mettalic paint… in hindsight I could have just spayed it a metal colour with a rattle can…
I then threw some superglue and baking soda on it…well when I eventually got the glue out that is!
This was then covered with the metallic colour. When dry I splashed on the rust effect….
The effect is somewhat spoiled by my crap placement of it.
Since taking the photo I have noticed the bottom layer is actually becoming more orange…it looks like rust!
While waiting for things to dry I got my treeman finished…
The bits needing to dry were these chap’s…
As you can see I changed cloak colour… I may repaint the blue one.
Today I felt a lot better, but overdid it and had to lie down for a couple of hours.
I did a number of reports and as a reward to myself I was allowed to sort out the Sohei.
I got them washed and cured, based and undercoated… here they are:
So from left to right…
Senior with a tetsubo
Three Sohei with naginata
Two initiates with yumi
Two initiates with teppo
So this list may look familiar, that is because it is the list used for the 28mm boxed Ronin Sohei miniatures set.
I bought the rules on pdf and can I find them? So to make a quick list I copied that one. I have ordered a paper copy but it won’t be here for a while.
I also printed of a trio of Onna-Musha (female warriors). Two are armed with a naginata and another a bow.
Sort of excited here… new contrast paints have been announced. There are some very useful colours in there. I am really looking forward to getting a good purple.
Tonight I got the vampire finished. To be honest I am not too happy with him…
I think it is the colours I chose as I really like the pose. I am torn to be honest. Part of me thinks repaint and another part thinks sod it… he is painted. There is of course another option and that is to print another one, look at some reference photos and start again.
We never got our game on Monday as my lot weren’t feeling well so we are going to have a try of something on Friday as well as plot some games. I decided to purchase some paper armies to try out Strength and Honour. I will still use the 2mm minis but might base them differently. Each ‘base’ is a legion two are on temperate ground and two are on arid.
This evening I managed one miniature done. This was deliberate rather than an inability to get two done.
Here he is…
A bit of a scary chap I think you will agree. Now I normally say something like it takes me about half an hour or so. Tonight I decided to actually time myself….so this chap took me…
Yes from start to finish he took me 29 minutes to do. I wasn’t rushing, just painting in my normal way.
On this one I went in the followingorder… boots, green smock, trousers, brown jacket. This was to allow some drying time for each of the different parts. The mask was a mix of zombie green and orange with various splodges of orange over the top while still wet. I also added leather brown into the eye sockets then used my thumb to remove paint from the eyes. These were then dotted with red.
Once again superglue on the base and showed in the base ready. A quick zip around the edges with my super wide black sharpie and voilà one scary scarecrow. Start to finish thirty minutes.
In case anyone is wondering..this is Worzel Gummidge…
Worzel was played by John Pertwee, who also played Doctor Who… I know which I prefer and it isn’t a wierd scarecrow from Ten Acre field!
Oh while I remember, the four beasties are by Tytantroll miniatures.
One day I will work out how to tag people on my blog as they really are lovely miniatures…I really fancy having a go at some of the miniature busts..there are some really great ones, the only reason I haven’t got one yet is because I can’t decide on one.
Finally, I said I had only painted one mini this evening, part way through writing this I decided to make a start on the vampire.
So here we have the scary boat and the witch with her basket of apples. To be honest if I were that boat I would avoid that red and green apple like the plague.
Again these were done in contrast. I did mix the flesh tone on the witch by adding a putrid green to the flesh colour. They won’t win any prizes but hey, they were both done in about an hour so that will do me. As the motto says you can have quick or good. I go for quick and okay every time.
Sadly there was no game tonight as all three of my kids were feeling crap today.
Finally … Exciting news… I am escaping my rock and going to my first wargames convention in about 12 years. I have booked the ferry for me and my son to go to SELWG on 6th August.
We were a bit naughty and got a cabin going down so it came in at £190… you can see why conventions don’t occur that often. Oh the above price was with my islander discount. The cabin is the killer at £121.
There were none on the way back but we can sleep when we get home. I now have to find some form of accommodation for two nights. Wish me luck!
Sometimes living in a cave can be dangerous… especially when this pair is in there too 🫣🫣🫣
I just went for high speed slapping paint on and attempting a sort of blend before the lighter colours dried. I think I achieved what I was aiming for. I couldn’t be bothered to get up and get my fast drying basing glue so I liberally coated the base in runny superglue and then shoved the mini in the base ready tub. I think this is why the bear has lost his toes. I also liberally spread superglue on my desk as I forgot the base had a hole in it!
Today I tried the FDM printer again… I haven’t used it for well over a year, but I checked over oiled bits and ran a quick test print… aka what was on the card.
Based on the model I still have to lower the build plate a smudge as the raft looks really thin. Furthermore the filament has sat there on the spool all year so has probably adsorbed some moisture and finally the model is a 28mm one shrunk right down to small scale… actually it is a bloody miracle I have anything to show for the 2 hours and 14 minutes it took.
Hopefully Joe will be round for a game tomorrow evening so I doubt I will get any printing or painting done.
This evening I cracked on and got the final pair done. I even tried doing eyes on this pair…
I also spent some of today sorting out my 3D printer files. Basically I downloaded a pile and got them onto my hard drive… I did a bit of printing too. I increased the size of the Vampire and Scarecrow, printed a giant centipede as well as did a test print of some more 15mm Samurai. I
kind of got these to allow me to do Ronin in 15mm. I will be able to do various Forces to go with my 15mm terrain.
As you can see I haven’t done a huge increase.
Tomorrow I will get a start on the Silver Bayonet miniatures. The centipede is going to spend a few hours in the sun to make sure he is fully cured.
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