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They are Growing on Me

So last night I decided that although nearly finished I had gone off the Sisters. As the title says, they are now growing on me.

A few things struck me today. The First being I absolutely detested painting up my mates 40k Nuns with Guns. Perhaps it biased me a bit. The second is that I just finished a lot of brightly coloured knights, although there was a lot of armour, there was enough bright colours to nullify it a bit. Also let’s not forget I have had a really tricky start to my new job. Stress levels have been through the roof, so perhaps this influenced how I felt.

The other thing that struck me was that I really am not too keen on the two on the left, and to be honest it is mainly the second one in. I am peeved that the leader has her left hand on backwards, not that you can really tell at first glance…

A big thanks to John and Az for the positive vibes.

Tomorrow my son wants to paint things and I have three frog riders to do so back to bright colours.

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Almost There….

Well after walking the dog I came back in and set to work on these, fully intending to do only a little bit and instead I pushed on and nearly got them done.

I am going to be honest here, I kind of don’t like them. Really not sure why! They are painted to my usual ‘slap it on’ style. Maybe it is the colour pallette, maybe because I had to start them again, or the fact they were printed nearly two years ago. Whatever the reason I will be really glad to see the back of them.

I will finish them tomorrow and maybe with Wednesday eyes I might feel a bit happier with them.  On the upside I took a better photo today.

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Nuns with Armour

So this evening I got my finger out and did a bit more on the Sisters…

Apologies for the bit of a blurry photo. I actually thought my eyes had given up the ghost. I have added gold and ‘enchanted’ iron as well as some leather too. I reckon i will be done in another couple of evenings if I keep cracking on.

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A Few More Dwarves

Well if you remember I finished my dwarven warband for Mordheim. I did have to proxy a couple of miniatures for inexperienced fighters. This has now been solved by Highland Miniatures bringing out some dwarf rangers.

So here we have a pair of lightly armoured dwarves. The mounted one in the background is there because there was space on the build plate.

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Final Dwarf

Well that’s the final dwarf done…

Here is the full warband with the crossbow being the final one.

Not sure where to go next. More Mordheim or something different.

Snow is melting now, by by all accounts it might be back on Tuesday.

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Two More Dwarves

This evening I got another couple of dwarves done. This takes the total to five out of the six starting miniatures.

This leaves only the crossbow to go. Luckily he is half way done…

Hopefully I will get him done tomorrow.

I managed to get a bit more done on my goblin general…or rather his mount.

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Working on the Dwarves

Well all schools were off today and I was on Child protection training all day. My daughter and I were going to do some more stuff on Ark, but sadly it needed a 7GB update so I painted while we watched ‘The Mitchell’s Versus the Machines’.

I would have got a lot further but my good lady forgot to turn the bath off. Water intake outpaced the overflow and to cut a long story short we have no dry towels. On the upside we have a concrete floor under the Lino and it is a single story house.

So back to the painting I eventually went. I managed to get this far…

Still a long way to go, but getting there, with these three anyway.

Snow is still here and the temperatures have dropped way below zero.

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Berserker Finished

Tonight I managed to get the berserker finished. I slapped a bit of paint on some of the others too.

I will work on the rest tomorrow.

As the female engineer actually has more than just her face painted then I think subconsciously that she is joining this warband.

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Working on the Dwarves

Tonight was another evening of Dad/Daughter bonding. We spent most of this evening preparing for a new base move. This was moving into a more dangerous area so we needed to prefabricate walls and doors ready to get them on the ground as soon as we got there.

We survived, a few hairy moments but in the end got a new protected base camp set up in the Boondocks.

This meant that painting time was reduced. I still managed a small amount.

The clan colour for these is green. My back story for them is that they have a fungus in their caves that give the cloth a green hue.

As you can see, the berserker’s hair is now a darker orange.

Well, the long weekend is now over. I will have to drag my sorry ass into work. Made all the more difficult as I am one of only three schools on Shetland open tomorrow. Pretty much, the same number is open on Orkney, the rest of Scotland seems to be on strike.

I will try a bit more painting tomorrow..