This is a lot of grey plastic…

Is it too late to change my mind?

I know I like 3D printing, but, apart from the toxic chemicals, I reckon building these won’t have really taken much less time if any. (This is not including printing time).

I will consider bases tomorrow..

I decided I couldn’t be bothered to paint anything this evening. My wife is packing for a work trip. My eldest is filling in forms for their new job and one of the others is trying to get some homework done.

I will get back on with the goblins tomorrow.

Today and into this evening I built more Tyranids.

So I now have:

10 Neorogants and a node beast

5 Barbgzunts

3 Leaper

1 Tyranid prime

1 neurotyrant

1 screamer killer

1 psychophage

This is to add to the 10 termagaunts I did yesterday (I still have 10 to build… I ran out of steam this evening).

Here are the three big guys…

I also did a smidge more on the goblins…

I will try and get the last ten Tyranids made tomorrow. I will also have a think about bases.

Well after a few games of Grimdark Future I have decided that sci Fi Gaming isn’t too bad. So, because I couldn’t be bothered to paint things this evening I made up some miniatures.

I blagged them off Joe, I thought these would be a nice easy sci fri arms to paint. These are snap fit ones… snap being an appropriate word. A number needed glueing as I somehow snapped pegs off in their holes.

Still a whole lot to build. Round two tomorrow.

Well Storm Betty, Mary or Fifi (or whatever it is called) has Caught up with my little bit of land. The Wind is coming from an unusual direction and both the porch and Conservatory are leaking. There has always been an annoying drip in the conservatory, when the win is from the South East. This time it is coming in in a number of places.

I am lucky however. I have a leak, some poor buggers on the mainland have lost their houses and livelihoods. So spare a thought for them not me whingeing on.

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) 🙂