I didn’t get anything done this evening as I was playing Dad’s Taxi. I did however pop into the club and had a chat to Mike who had just found his British forces for the French Indian Wars.
It looks like our ancient project might be going to be rekindled…
Some of mine can be found Here
As I mentioned yesterday, I had to attend a parent council meeting as the head teacher. I didn’t get in until gone 22:00.
I decided, however, to make the scythe a bit rusty.
I had already added some orangey colours, but thought I was add some Dirty Down rust as I never really get to use it much.
I warmed up the bottle and shook it like buggery and it didn’t work properly!
The only thing I can think of is one of two things. First, I should have stirred as well as shaken it or second the models are metal and were themselves really cold. I left them for a couple of hours. The bottle says ‘high Matt’ so I think it needs a stir as the scythe looks a tad shiny.
This evening I cracked on with the pumpkins and got them nearly finished.
The ones glued to the cardboard will be added to the resin ones in some kind of a pumpkin patch.
I have a parents meeting tomorrow night so really doubt I will get anything done after I get back.
This evening I got a start on my mates metal pumpkins.
To match in with the printed ones I did a black undercoat with a white dry brush.
I used a different orange for these. I reckon I will have to do some glazing of a lighter colour.
I actually used my Artis Opus dry brush for about the second time on ten months.
Hopefully I will carry on with these tomorrow… a statement that normally means I won’t touch anything for a few days.
It was a really still morning this morning and I eventually managed to stop the car without getting in the way.
I took a little video too. It can be found Here
Managed to do nothing this evening… hopefully tomorrow will be better.
Flippin Heck I put myself to bed at 16.00 yesterday and woke up at 12.40 today. That’s a twenty hour snooze. I think I may have needed it.
I moved one of the sockets up about 2cm today to allow the skirting board a bit of a lift too. That just about finished me off.
I didn’t even try to get anything painted this evening.
Hopefully normal service will return tomorrow.
What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)?
I suppose there are two that fit this criteria. The first was a piece of Roman amphora from 20 metres down in the Mediterranean. It was from a second century wreck. I may have been the next person to touch it in the 1800 years since it was lost.
The second thing was another piece of pottery this time Samian from the Roman period. This one is cooler than the first as I know the person who touched it before me was from the first to second century AD. How do I know this. Well a little rabbit had made a burrow and kindly kicked it out just before I came along.
Luckily for me both were outside of any protected area so they were both classed as waste.
If I knew where they were I would add a photograph of them.
Yes that time has come when both the physical and cyber miniatures need sorting out. I decided to make a start when I kept finding boxes with part painted miniatures in.
The hard drive of shame also needed a tidy up too
Well, this night off was more forced than volunteered. I noticed there were lots of blooping noises coming out of the kitchen sink and the toilet. This normally means that the septic tank has backed up. Oh yes, it had! So after a whole lot of swearing, I set to work.
An hour and a half later I got it cleared and running through. There was even more swearing when my phone dropped out of my pocket and fell into said Poo-filled hole. luckily it was in a relatively clear bit and I also had a hose and spade in hand so I got to it before it sank.
I managed to stay up until 20.00 and got this written ASAP before I fell asleep.
So tonight I decided that I needed to get my arse into gear and do something constructive instead of swearing at the Console game…
I will try and get him finished tomorrow.
Bogenwald 