Tonight I decided that enough was enough and forced myself to sit down and paint. I got this far with the archers…

I quite like the blue/grey of the hoods. Still a long way to go, but progress is still progress.

I also found the missing skeletal horseman… he was hiding with more goblins.

There are half a dozen rock chuckers and a poor goblin trying to pacify a giant frog. The ones with the rocks are basically the swamp goblin equivalent to the Night Goblin fanatics.

I have noticed of late that the steroids aren’t seeming to be stopping the pain from the poly myalgia. The doctor is bumping me back up a mg to 9mg to see if that helps. Fingers crossed. Luckily I am now on my October break… Wooohooo 🥳.

This evening I managed to get the Goblins I have been painting finished, well I though I had until I saw the photo and noticed more white than an explosion in a Tippex factory.

I also used any spare paint on a frog rider and a shaman/leader and then I had a bit of a sneeze whist pouring out a drop of flesh coloured paint for the frog’s mouth… then this happened…

The bottom eight were in a box that was going to use for a One Ring game. In my mind these are the worst goblins ever…I mean what happened in the sixty years from these ones to the ones in the Lord of the Rings… I know they grow fungus in the Misty Mountains, but was some of it penicillin… never mind I digress.

Tomorrow I will get back on with the Highland Miniatures bow armed goblins.

After a week of hunting for a box full of miniatures, I knelt down in the passage and voila, there it was on top of another box.

I worked on the rest of the Goblins this evening. I cracked on and seemed to achieve very little. I got to here ( plus work on the bow goblins).

I had fully intended to get these finished, but sadly failed to meet my self imposed deadline.

In the back you can just about see the unit musician with his gong. The leader in the foreground was painted about a year ago.

So this is my unit with hand weapons. The missing miniature box has a unit with pole arms. So once this lot and the bow armed ones are finished I will move onto the pole arms.

I am pleased that I am getting back into regular painting.

I had a busy old morning putting the battens up to take the cladding. It absolutely wrecked me. I spent the rest of the day feeling knackered. I did manage to get some paint thrown onto some of the goblins.

I am doing the green from the hoods as the tunics for the archers. I didn’t bother photographing them as they are just in the skin and tunic.