Well because I am a bit of a lazy BarStard I never got any painting done this evening. I did chuck more stuff around in the shed as well as download a whole pile of STL’s, but sadly no painting.

This came in the post today and it is lovely

Now way back when I started, I had a bit of a wall that was in front of a picture I had printed from the internet…

I liked this idea, but the picture wasn’t mine and I would spend a while adding who it belonged to. In time I stopped using it and went for just a plain background…

Normally it is the above bit of card. But now that I own the book I can quite happily choose one of the awesome works of art inside. Here is one of them…

There are 32 different ones in the book. They were all done By Jon Hodgson. He did the art for the first One Ring. I have been a bit of a fan ever since.

This miniature has sat under my computer monitor for at least a year. I was sorting out today and rediscovered it. Therefore tonight I built it.

It was reasonably easy to build. Apart from the rear of it. Luckily GF9 have instructions online. It comes with a peg to fit in the base. I cut this off before I find the base in the printer shed.

While I was in there I remembered I had the Prodos one still in it’s box. Yikes, EBay has it for £40 at the cheapest. I reckon that at a conservative estimate in the four boxes I have I have about £160.

I will get back to the undead cavalry soon. Highland Miniatures is going Egyptian Undead this month.

To be honest, these may just sit in the folder as, although I am impressed by them, i really don’t like the Egyptian vibe. I have a whole art of undead, I don’t need any more. But I am seriously not going to quibble. The above cost me £10.

This week I decided that I should stop being a hermit and actually get out into the hobby world again. I won’t lie. I really had to push myself to make sure I went. I actually went with part painted miniatures… which for me is really unusual. I wasn’t going to allow any excuses.

We had a bash at One Page Rules ´Grimdark Future.

We played a couple of games and by the second I was getting the hang of it.

I eventually got the wheel to print. I found a random miniature to act as the third member of the crew. I found some suitable heads on a plastic sprue. The gun is really deadly when it hits something. Sadly I don’t know as I never managed to hit anything. The reason I know is that in the second game we simply swapped forces and I was on the receiving end. Here are a couple of in game shots…

This was pretty much my dice rolls in the first game!

Well, we went on a family night out tonight. To Begin with we went to see a Haunting in Venice. It was a jolly good film and there were enough red herrings to keep us all guessing. After that, we went out for a celebratory meal. This was because both my wife and eldest were successful at interview. We headed off to the Shetland hotel where we had an amazing meal too. So all in all a great evening, I then came back and played Baldur’s Gate 3.

Tomorrow I am going to head off to the club, about time I stopped being a bloody hermit and went off to meet people again. I know I said I wasnt going to print anything new, but I could really do with something to bolster my meagure forces. I am printing one thing (well it will end up as one thing) 🙂

This evening I decanted a further eighteen of the Contrast paints. The great advantage as well as not drying out is that you can fit more in the same space.

I also managed to finish the goblin netters and a bat swarm.

The bat swarm was probably printed at least eighteen months ago.

As Army Painter are pretty top dudes in my mind they sent the Geek club a pile more paints… look out for another post. I decided to try out the metallic Speedpaint range.

So I just tried the broadsword steel this evening and it isn’t too shabby. Went on easy and does have a sort of metallic sheen to it.

I would suggest it would need a highlight over the top, but this is my first real blast at them so I might not be using it to its best effect.

I still have ten goblins with hand weapons to finish.. hopefully I will get some done tomorrow evening. I will be adding cladding to the lounge wall tomorrow so I may be somewhat pooped. I will have to remember my steroids tomorrow morning or I will be more than pooped!

It was a bit of a long day today and I really could not be bothered with painting this evening. This is an edited post as the long one went on my other blog, sadly I couldn’t copy it across on the tablet.

Once I get going again with the Knights I will need to make my life a bit easier on the heraldry… definitely no comple quartering for me. The hardest I will attempt is a diamond pattern.

I decided that getting some ideas down on paper might help so voila…thank you Internet…