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Froggy Boyz

Well this evening my son and I did indeed have our painting session. I managed to finish the frog riders. If I compare how I feel about these to how I felt about the Sisters then it is like comparing chalk and cheese.

I love these, I think in part because they are such a bonkers idea. Not one of them is sitting on the mount, they are all airborne in one height or another. I also love the randomness of the equipment. Yes I deliberately chose the options to make them this way, but again – bonkers. The lances in the description is frog cavalry with pointed sticks… and that is it down to a tee. They are just long sticks, not even pointy! The frogs themselves look bloody dangerous.

The one thing I noticed when I put them all together is thar the originals are in a polished silver and the new ones ate in gun metal… nothing a wash won’t solve.

So here they are in all their bounding glory…

With these, the frog colour is the unifying colour. If you think back to the frog herds, they were all colours and the leader was pretty colourful too…

In a way I wish I hadn’t gone as bright on the frog herds… at the time I was thinking poison arrow frogs.

James is still busy painting the chaos dudes. They were a present too him from Joe.

The big question is… do I go steppe goblins next… well obviously after I finish the peasants to go with the various knights. With regards to the latter, I have literally just scratched the surface.

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Goblin Frog Riders

Well as expected I printed the three missing frog riders, and because I can never ever leave any space on the build plate I added a couple of Gallian men at arms.

I even managed to choose ones I hadn’t used before… (pure fluke!)

But because it is me then I decided to print another half dozen men at arms!

Sadly I didn’t feel up to painting and didn’t even try. Not sure if I will manage tomorrow as it is the school leaver’s assembly. I probably won’t be up to much.

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Finished Projects

Today I managed to finish a couple of projects.

First up is the elf bust. I added a bronze colour (well I think it was – might have been an antique gold) to the dress top and crown…

I even found her stand which I sprayed black earlier. It has an elvish motif around it which I will dry brush gold.

I also worked on the dwarven bear rider and got him finished…

I just noticed white spots on the red bits where the paint has rubbed off.

I also decided to print off a new bust. I was a bit annoyed to find four hours later that it had failed. Much swearing took place. I used the pre-supprted version. I have redone  the supports myself. Now it could be the case that my bed needs levelling. I will find out tomorrow when I redo her.

I have got about half a dozen busts that I have acquired over the years, as well as a couple if new ones. Come to think of it, I probably have closer to a dozen.

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Dusty Bust

Well this evening I decided to give my One Coat paints a go on my elven witch bust. I resprayed her a good few years ago and since then she has sat in a box or on my unit.

So I thought to myself I had wondered about trying glazing. So I gave it a try earlier.

Evidently I need to dust more…

I spent more time trying to remove spiderweb  and dust than I did trying to add the paint. I would like to point out that the cat hair, or whatever it is appeared between painting and  photographing.

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Barkhoven – The Great Composer

Even though I am spending far too much time playing Fallout 76; I still managed to paint this pair this evening.

The collar was done with thr same light blue and it does make Barkhoven look like he has blue ears.

I cannot remember what the other one us, one of the civilian range from Alternative Armies, but as to the race… not a clue.

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Ghost Bride

Yes eventually I got my finger out and picked up a paint brush and got the ghost bride up to the basing stage.

I think the ideas in my head transferred to the miniature. In fact I think it is an improvement on my own original one. For one thing I was a bit more adventurous in adding other colours.The red eyes are not evil in my mind… just the poor lass has been stood up at the alter and cried a great deal.

I painted this one in 2018

Funny I went green with my original and blue with the latest one.

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Adding Snow

You would imagine that after a week of the white stuff then I might have got a bit sick of it… out in the wild – yes! In the kitchen on miniature bases… not so much, but as I really dislike doing bases then … I might have to sit on the fence

So I forgot to take the photo at 15.00 today to compare the snow… this was taken up my track though!

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Almost Finished

Yes, the Flintloque miniatures are nearly done. I worked on them this evening again. Painted the base, did the rims, took the photo and then realised I had forgotten all the brass work on the rifle and pistols!

I will try and get it done during the day tomorrow.

I have a hospital appointment with a specialist on Thursday so it is a ferry trip down to Aberdeen tomorrow evening. I could have taken a flight, but this way it is cheaper for the old NHS… oh yeah and it means I get some time in Aberdeen.

I am going to see if I can find any model shops… not holding my breath as I haven’t been able to in the past.

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Jean D’Arc

Well sort of…

Not really much done. I was going to undercoat the militia, but it was torrential rain and strong winds so there was no way I was going to go into the shed… wimp that I am!

I painted both flags in the same blue. This was with Army Painter standard acrylic. Some shading and highlighting will be required.

Oh yeah I painted the green on the knight too.

Hopefully I can carry on tomorrow.

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Knights and Pumpkins

I carried on with the Knights and foot soldiers this evening. I just need to get the bases painted on the foot below. I have to finish Joan D’arc and make a start on another mounted knight and another banner bearer on foot,

I also got this lot done for my mate…

I still have to do the stems and then get them based up.

For these pumpkins I went outside my usual method and sprayed these black, dry brushed them white then added the orange. I actually did something different to my usual… I won’t be doing this regularly though.

In other news my new filament printer arrived today.