Well no painting tonight as my youngest decided he was going to join the cadets. So as my good lady is  away I took him in. Firstly he wanted to meet his friends on the other side of Lerwick. Secondly the cadets poster was wrong and it wasn’t on, thirdly he lost his phone. Luckily I was trying to find him in Lerwick and not London. In the end I went back to the place I dropped him off at. Luckily he was there.

I am now having a lie down in a darkened room.

So here is my Warlord chariot, taken straight from the Angus MacBride painting I would guess.

These are the plastics..actually Wargames Factory and not Atlantic like I said yesterday.

These shaggy little ponies are exactly what they should be looking like. The one thing that bugs me about some manufacturers is that all of their horses are about sixteen hands high at the shoulder, instead of the sub fourteen hands they should be for the earlier periods. From the archeology it is found that the majority of horses in the Middle ages stood at thirteen  to fourteen hands

I mean even the Scots Greys at Waterloo were on fourteen hands and under. This it the standard upper height of a pony. If you bear in mind that I am 5’10 and not a skinny bloke I ride my fifteen hands and have also ridden Fjords and Icelandics and they are between thirteen and fourteen hands. I n case you were wondering a ‘hand’ is 4 inches.

Okay Rant over, not even sure why I had it …☺️

We tried Silver Bayonet tonight and the worst Dice throws ever occurred at the table. Thankfully they weren’t mine.

A rifleman did shoot one of my infantrymen, but in the final turn I managed to snatch victory in the last turn.

So a while ago I mentioned doing my DNA. Last week a lady reached out, it turns out we were a bit of a match… fourth cousins  from what I remember.

Anyway I decided to sort out my family tree mainly on my mother’s side. I have found loads more matches on both sides now.

I have ground to a bit of a halt as I am back into the mid 17th century.

This was early afternoon. I am now back two generations from John in 1710. William and Janet are the best match, with William’s father being about as far back as I can go. This my Grandfather’s side (Mum) with her mother’s side going back to about 1649.

I now have to delve deeper back into my Dad’s side. I have got back to 1815 with his.

Interestingly, two people have popped up in Australia and Canada.

Well this evening I went to the gaming club so didn’t get much time to get anything painted. I made a start on my frog riders…

The biggest problem I had with these was making sure I had chosen the same green as the other three that were already painted. This was in fact Greenstuff World Dipping ink, which thankfully was in the house and still usable.

My son and I are having a painting session tomorrow. He is doing some fantasy chaos dudes (Blades of Khorne). I shall carry on with the frogs.

Well okay they aren’t exactly nuns, but I was getting sick of writing ‘sisters’.

Still a lot of white, but also a lot more metal. Yes tonight I was working on the armour.

I am really wanting these out of the way, not sure why, maybe because they have been sitting there for a couple of years or maybe because the Mordheim phase has passed.

One day it may come back, but until then I will keep painting  what I have to at least get them out of the way.

So I managed to get some more done on the Sisters of Sigmar this evening…

So this is them all. Going for a tan/brown to complement the red. Was actually a happy accident as I did the hair on the fourth from the right and really liked it.

Still lots to do, but making progress.

So I ran my little taster session today and ended up with sixteen children who came along. Twelve girls and four boys. I got my camera out to take a photo and then a crisis occurred so… no photo.

The kids seemed to enjoy themselves and were very keen to come back next term and try something more complicated. Because of the numbers I will have to split them into two groups

I ended up faffing about on the hard drive by downloading all of the orks and goblins from Highland Miniatures. By time I got this done I decided it was too late to start painting… edit… I decided I needed to paint something today so started on the Sisters…

As you can see, I have decided on red instead of the blue and cream I did last time. Funnily enough I am a lot happier with them at this stage than I was before!

Yes the printer worked with the ancient resin, well noy exactly ancient, but kept in the vat instead of the bottle.

I have twenty four of these little chaps for the kids to paint tomorrow.

I have them undercoated now and have a car full of paint, bases and flock.

Wish me luck, I actually haven’t got a clue when we are going to get them done tomorrow. We break up for the October break so will have to get them started and finished in one go.