I managed to get motivated enough to slap some paint on these fine fellows…
Still a fair way to go, but closer than yesterday 😁
As tomorrow is Christmas Eve, I really doubt I will get anything done.
If I don’t manage to get online tomorrow, I just want to wish everyone a happy Christmas. If you don’t celebrate it, then I wish you a peaceful and contented couple of days.
The title says it all …. so little done this evening.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow night… maybe the run up to Christmas isn’t the best time to try and get stuff painted. I was hoping to get twenty miniatures painted by Christmas Day (15 have already been done)… mwa ha ha!
Somehow I don’t think that I am going to make my self imposed deadline, therefore I am going to aim for the end of the month.
On the upside, these chappies don’t have many belts or straps to worry about, this should hopefully speed things up a bit 🤔
I was having a mooch amongst my gravestone sets and found the Undead engineers.
I managed to get them glued to their bases and then get a Bay brown undercoat. I will hopefully get some paint onto them tomorrow evening.
The following photo shows the fun and games that can be had leaving the island!
Taken by Sandy Macmillan’s Facebook page.
I managed to get Merry from bare metal to finished in just over an hour.
Another figure found in a box. He is being added to the December challenge. So far this month I have managed fourteen full figures and a zombie upper torso bursting out of the ground. Ten days to go, so I reckon I can get a few more in before the end of the month.
I managed to work on Nursey this evening and got her finished in one sitting.
It helped that there weren’t too many complicated or fiddly bits. She was super easy to paint. Looking closely at some of the photos I could probably tidy up the Red Cross a bit more, but to be honest I am worried I will balls it up and sneeze or something and have red paint where it shouldn’t be.
Here she is reunited with the other two figures from the set.
I think this is one of my favourite sets in terms of the make up of the set and also the back story.
Rogipoos reminds me of one of my Role Playing Characters. Sir Percival Fanhard second earl of Lancaster and cousin to the King.
Percy and his friend Mr Lyle,the sugar magnate, had many escapades from the Spanish Main to Gibraltar. Another notable character was the great El Torro and his pet monkey Captain Pinch. Percy is the chap that bought the hag of Tortuga an occasional table as she didn’t have one when he tried to leave his card. The pair of them started a war between Spain and Britain over a complete and utter misunderstanding.
I still have the original character sheet, he got to 90 XP’s. The Pirates RPG was written by my good friend Wiggy Wade Williams, a very talented chap indeed.
Percy survived and had decedents. Some who have appeared in various games.
I will end with the Wisdom of El Torro
Beautiful women who are poor are to be admired from a distance, Beautiful women who are rich are to be courted. This is my Monkey, you may ignore him ……
Found in the personal papers of Percival Fanhard… dated 17 something or other…(cant read his writing) spent too long in Main… what with his constitution…. not a good combination!
I managed to get him finished…
Well when I say finished I just realised all of the bits that had been missed off or the paint has strayed! To be fair I hadn’t noticed until I took the photo above and then cropped and zoomed in. I do feel however that it looks like there is cocoa in his mug!
I decided that he needed to be reunited with Jose so here they are.
Tomorrow I will make a start on Nursey. Then onto some Elf civilians.
oh and while I remember….
70mph winds: 1 caravan: 0
It doesn’t look much but the side is just about holding in place and the roof is all but detached on the near side.
Luckily I still had the digger and held the roof in place until my good lady came back with the car containing the straps.
The heroic digger!
Four hours on a digger has jiggled my insides, plus quite a while in 60mph winds with a shovel didn’t help either but I bravely managed to get a bit more paint on Rogipoos.
Rogipoos’ skin is a lot darker than other orcs due to his many adventures in sunnier climates. I have enjoyed painting him. I did consider painting the braid a different colour but decided on the white. I managed a bit of shading with a heavily watered down blue wash, not that you can tell.
Hopefully I will get him finished tomorrow apart from aches from another load of hours on the digger and with a shovel.
The wind speed is now pushing 70mph… luckily the power has stayed on.
Made a start on Uncle Rogipoos.
Still a long way to go, but I made a start this evening. My eldest daughter has become a teenager, so Birthday Shenanigans took place.
Another bit of excitement, my 3D printer arrived, unfortunately I can’t open it until Christmas….booooo!
And finally, this was shared on my Facebook feed…
It reminded me of a pile of young ladies I met in Poland, they turned up at a couple of events wearing lady versions of military uniforms, their uniforms were definitely cut to allow a bit more expansion in certain areas.
Hopefully I will get on with Rogipoos again tomorrow night.
First of the Rogipoos set finished.
Jose is an Armadillus Magnus Invisiblus, basically a very large armadillo that is exceptionally good at disappearing. Strangely though most people cannot see him. His claws are excellent for both digging and as offensive weapons.
He and Rogipoos are inseparable.
Final rifle finished….
Fredorcson late of the 105th rifles has been given the rank of brevet major in the 60th rifles… well he has in my games. From what I remember in the Sharpe Novels, Frederickson was given command of some Portuguese Cacador’s. But never mind … Sweat Villiam has been wounded so many times that among other things he has lost his left eye, his teeth and his hair. His badly fitting wig is made from the hair of dead elves.
Fredorcson is a staunch ally of Sharke.
Here we have the rifles in all their glory…
Tomorrow I make a start on Rogipoos, Nursey and Jose.
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