Yes I have achieved very little of late. I managed to come up with an idea for my Planet fall crew. I went with the suggested 2 scouts, 2 scientists and four troopers… Sort of saved me having to think.

Of the eight crew, four get bonus rolls so I went one Scout, 2 scientists and one trooper.

The one I found most interesting is the trooper… His motivation was personal achievement, prior experience came up with records deleted and his notable event was a narrow escape. Of the latter one of the ideas was left for dead. Straight away my brain went into story mode.

He was part of some mission that went belly up. Many casualties, huge cost and nothing to show for it. He survived and after his injuries healed he managed to walk again, his records and all information about that mission were classified.

Needs a bit of work, but part of me is thinking of Weland Yutani or one of the other corporations, other species out there…”is this another bug hunt?”

I did a bit of faffing about with some blue foam too…

Well a while ago I got excited about 5 parsecs from home.

Today a new book arrived that matches in with it…

Basically your new team are a group of colonists arriving on a new and dangerous planet. Exploration, colony building and scientific discoveries are all part of the story.

Again this is a solo or co-op game.

I will share my thoughts when I read a bit more

As I have been out at my mates comparing our TenFold goodies… AKA discussing them as we both got the same

So Dad’s taxi is still awaiting my offspring from an event she is at.

I thought I would share a few more 5 minute scribbles…

Well let’s take things in order….

Well that was a bit of a surprise this afternoon, didn’t even know this was a thing lol.

I put a cheeky bid on a TenFold Dungeon set on eBay and actually Won it!

I nearly jumped on this on Kickstarter when it came out. I can’t remember why I didn’t, but I have a vague recollection that I didn’t think it would be a big thing. Totally wrong, it is bloody huge. So much so I actually wondered where I would store it.

My mate got one too so we can have a massive space ship lol.

Finally I cracked out the paints again and did a smidge more on the Gladiators…

Hopefully I will get these finished sometime soon.

Go me, actually trying something new regarding painting. Yes I actually, wait for it, used Wraithbone as an undercoat.

Holy Crap I am sooo proud of myself 😂.

I had it, had the miniatures and went Sod it! I think the only reason that I go for a white undercoat is because I don’t have the Wraithbone for a touch up.

After taking the photos I decided to do more on them… Photos later on.

Well my Wargames Illustrated magazine came and in it was a sprue of Gladiator goodies.

This sprue gave me a murmillo and a thraex. It also contained a Lanista and a Sumer Rudis (referee).

Now the miniatures are really nice, there are four head options for the gladiators. Two for each. And then four for the unarmoured chaps two with beards and two without.

Each fighter comes with two sword arms and two shields. There are two shields arms that allow for a bit of a pose difference. The shields have a hole to glue the hand in. Thankfully no arm straps.

The two fighters and referee have separate torso to legs so a bit of movement will be possible at the waist.

Now personally I would have preferred a bit more of a side on pose for either of them, but it isn’t a complaint.

If you started building without really looking at the magazine or know a bit about Gladiators then I suppose you might build things a bit on the wrong side. The Thraex has two Greaves and the murmillo has one on his forward leg. The Thraex also had a griffin on their helmet. One has the scutum and the other the Palma. One the gladius and the other the sica.

Now I have joined the Kickstarter on this so it is nice to see some of the miniatures.

From what I remember the six types are the two above, retiarius, hoplomachus, provocotor and the secutor.

These pretty much are the ones people know. I do wonder that if this is a success then other types might be in the pipeline. Of course my brain has now gone to the Gangs of Rome box set!

I will hopefully get these sprayed tomorrow.

Yes it was 23:20 when I let the dog out and it looked like this. Still about a month to the longest day.

I decided to be a evening class tutor after the summer hols, went for the interview and got the job. Going to go for small worlds, basically 4 weeks of terrain building on a shoestring.

Sooo have been photographing various bits and pieces for inspiration…

Well yes I have been a bit quiet of late. I took a bit of a health wobble and really struggled to do anything. I actually had to cancel some training and do office work instead.  I have done a few arty pastel scribbles…

I ordered the Florentine Militia from Alternative Armies, because I haven’t got a whole army to paint! This is going to be a good while to get to me, the cannons took a bit of time, and due to a lot of orders during their sale then they warned there would be an additional two week delay.

I am on train the trainer shenanigans  in Edinburgh and was told to visit Wonderland Models on Lothian road. In a way I am glad I found it in my last day and half an hour before it closed as I would have been skint and would have needed a bigger case. I did purchase the following…

I also found some reading material…

It is a lot easier to read than I thought it would have been.

Got to be up at stupid o’ clock tomorrow morning as I am on the 07.20 flight and have to travel to the airport.

I am in the holiday inn next to Edinburgh zoo. I did plan to have a visit, but at over £30 for a ticket I quickly changed my mind. I bought the markets and barricades with the money saved. Now I absolutely don’t hold that price against them, but I have been before plenty of times and it seemed a bit expensive for an hour or two.