Visitors in the Voe

Visitors in the Voe

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Well after a bit of a hiatus I managed to get my finger out and throw some paint on the 15mm miniatures.

The thirty of them are pretty much at this stage.

I am in a bit of flux at the minute. As some of you know I am the head teacher (principal) of a small school. Evidently it is going to be too small so they are likely going to shut us. Needless to say I am not really in the best of moods to paint right about now. I am only adding this to the blog as it is pretty much common knowledge up here and into Aberdeenshire and beyond.

This evening I decided to give the Dirty Down Rust another try. This time I stirred it first with a skewer. This took a good while… the photo was taken part way through the stirring process…

Once I had stirred it for a good while I inverted the bottle and saw light through the base so I reckoned it was time for a good old shake… turns out it had an agitator ball in! It definitely didn’t make that noise the other day!

So this is what it looked like after round two!

Much better in my mind!

The other thing I did was to glue thirty woodland Indians to pennies and undercoat them ready for a bit of a painting session sometime soon.

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.