I managed a fair bit today, only really the shields and cross guards on the swords to do.
I even painted the bases and I really, really detest basing things. Tomorrow I will paint the edges too before I get any kind of flock down.
I was a little concerned that the grey would stick out like a sore thumb beside the green ones, but to be honest I don’t think they are too bad. One thing I need to do is do a bit of highlighting on the fur on the big beastie saddle.
Shading and highlighting to do but otherwise finished…
I am going to flock the green bits and add stippling to the brown bits to act as mud/earth.
Then onto the next lot…
Bucketloads more to go still in the bag, but progress is being made!
The printer is chuntering away in the shed making me a Starship Troopers objective 😉
I cracked on again tonight and tried to get as much done as I could.
I started painting the bases with brown and then though sod it, they are getting covered anyway!
I downloaded so much stuff from Thingiverse today that I reckon I will need a whole kilogram just for the downloads 😂.
All to do with Sci Fi and starship trooperery type stuff… aka proxies 👍
I managed to procure a ST plasma bug, cost £25 but the other stuff I was bidding on went beyond £40 the last time I looked… just checked the Rippler bugs got to £67 and the Tanker made £38.50. I had a top bid of £30, but knew I would be blown out of the water. I did find a cheap plastic toy version of the Tanker bug from the states. I have seen some people doing good stuff with these so managed to get it for £4.95 plus £10 postage. Here’s hoping I don’t get clobbered with silly charges at this end.😱
Change in scale and genre..
25mm sci fi to 10mm fantasy. I decided to get a bit more done on my elves. I am really struggling to get motivated with these, what makes it worse is I think I have the same, if not twice as many to make a start on. I have painted loads more 10mm than this lot and managed fine but these are really causing me grief. 
As mentioned in an earlier post, I am doing a Facebook group challenge of 30 minutes a day for 50 days…. surely I can get these finished in that time 😱
A really short post today as I am absolutely cabbaged… long day that I have been worrying about for weeks went off pretty well…
A quick speedy paint of a ghost…
This is a Reaper Bones one, very soft flexible plastic but these things seem to take paint well.
Is it a male or female ghost, who can tell. It goes woooh wooh and scares people. I will need it for next week’s RPG session where the players will meet a shade from Angmar.
I will probably put it onto a larger base to help with stability, but the bases are in the bottom shed and I am in the kitchen.
Rather than the usual basing material of base ready I go for, this time I went for a less rocky flock. This is the flock myself and my daughter made. It is running out so small bases like this are handy.
Well, I finished my first three dwarves and took them outside for a photo shoot…
I then decided to print a couple more to see if I could make them look a bit different.
I think I achieved my goal of changing their look. The beard and fur was made from Greenstuff the plastic bits and bobs are from the original Mordheim plastic sprue.
I added a bit to the back too…
Well I got a bit more paint on the printed dwarves and they are beginning to get there.
I am quite pleased with them so far. Once they are shaded and highlighted a bit more then I think They will look spiffy 😉
I will try and get them finished tomorrow.
I have now found my theme tune (after a crap week at work… well actually make that a fair few months)… please do not listen if you are easily offended. It is very rude!
They were sitting there, staring at me and making me feel guilty so I painted some more cloaks…
nearly lost the will to live but pushed through the barriers of whatever was stopping me getting on with them.
The printer has returned to the shed as the temperature has warmed up enough, it’s funny not hearing it working away. Before it moved out there I printed a couple more bits and bobs.
These are upscaled from 18mm ones. I was after some more proxy bits for Starship Troopers. The big one is a proxy for an M-4A1 Grizzly Exo suit and the smaller one is CHAS (Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System)… these appear in the Roughneck series and not in the films. The CHAS needs to be a bit bigger, but will do as a starter. Both of these were from Ill Gotten Games.
I threw open my painting box and cracked on with my printed miniatures.
Still a bit to do on some of them but the front two are almost finished. The very pale yellow is going to be a darker yellow. I just wanted to make sure that it would cover ok. I also have a mage in a rather nice purple robe as well as a couple of thieves ready to go. When these ones are done I will get on with the rest of the miniatures for the game.
Sadly as I was working on these my Elves got ignored for another night.
I still can’t get my head around the fact that these all started off as a long string of plastic… a bit of computer magic and voila… miniatures.
I am going to give an arachnid from Starship Troopers a go sometime soon, but for today the printer has stood silent… an unusual thing.
I paused long enough in dismantling and reassembling the printer to get some paint slapped on the elves…
Still a fair old way to go but I am getting there again. I have decided that they are all going to have dark grey cloaks. I was thinking that another mass of differing shades of green on the cloaks would be a bit too much. It also groups them together as a unit.
Bogenwald 