So I have got the toppers for the Xpress paints printed now. I am use free curing methods, apologies for the state of the woodwork
One day I may actually paint them.
As an addendum…this is where I got them from…https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-speed-paint-toppers-299625
The set is 40k themed, I simply chose two that could be fantasy.
Or possibly not…
years ago I was at a mates house and his dad loaned me his copy of the hobbit…yeah, that was nice of him, I hear you cry… interestingly it was a first edition of the hobbit and it is different to the later editions…
The one that always stuck out to me was that Gollum offers the ring to Bilbo if he wins the riddle game, which is sacrosanct to Gollum. He couldn’t find his ring and was extremely apologetic to Bilbo, Bilbo who had already found it and said nowt about it!”I don’t know how many times Gollum begged Bilbo’s pardon. He kept on saying: ‘We are ssory; we didn’t mean to cheat, we meant to give it our only pressent, if it won the competition.”
Oh and there was definitely no ‘we hates him forever!’
Funnily enough, not that I can remember, Tolkien failed to describe Gollum, and as such various illustrations appeared… now anyone who has seen the Peter Jackson films will forevermore see Gollum looking like this…
However Tove Jansson, a Swedish illustrator ( of ‘The Moomins’ fame) drew him like this…
So as you can see, there is a bit of a height difference… this discrepancy led Tolkien to do a bit of an edit in relation to the size of Gollum.
First Edition…”Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum — as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes.”
Later editions…“Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.”
You probably already knew all of this, but it might be interesting if you didn’t… why bring this up now…well I heard on the radio yesterday that a charity shop had been given a first edition and the owner nearly binned it ad they thought it wouldn’t sell.
Well okay, maybe enlarged heads would be a better description…
After spending ages making my own naff bottle toppers, I found these free ones… the idea is to paint these in the colour in the bottle. This will show the true colour on a model. I have twenty four of these and another twenty four ork heads for my Vallejo Xpress colours.
These are fastened on with Greenstuff. I hope to get them painted tomorrow.
So the other night instead of painting anything or sleeping for that matter I took a walk outside…
http://outaboutinshetland.home.blog/2023/07/06/the-simmer-dim/
One of my Geek club is leaving in a couple days to go onto the secondary school. As part of their leaving present I did these…
They are a fun little group.
Lots of sandbags… luckily I didn’t have to fill them as these ones took just over 9 hours to print.
I will get the mortar printed tomorrow.
Geek Club.
Yes as our topic is dinosaurs then we will be painting some tomorrow…
Tonight I mainly worked on the mounted dwarf.
Still a bit to go, but getting further. The two rangers are just about done too.
I tripped over the dog tonight, grazed my elbow,s, split my knee open. Belted my head either on the stone wall or on the floor. Either way I am feeling sorry for myself.
So I let the dogs out for their last pee and realised that one again we have hit midnight with a light Sky!
Time for bed methinks!
This is the Vietnam War iteration of the term as opposed to the lost Nuclear Weapon version.
Now, in case you don’t know, Broken Arrow was a code phrase that meant that meant a unit or position was about to be overrun. When this was heard all aircraft in that area of operations would be scrambled to assist.
So if you remember I showed some Vietnam War engineers and sappers that I printed off… I printed off some more this week. The new ones were missed from the original set.
I started looking at them and an idea formed as I looked at them. How about using them in a diorama. I have a 60mm mortar so my idea is for a VC/NVA force to be overrunning an American position.
This will comprise the mortar pit and crew with a life and death struggle between the combatants.
I have also bought a new set of sandbags and another mortar as the new one has some mortar rounds both in a box and as individuals.
Now right now, I am quite keen to get this started. I am worried that if I don’t get started it will be like the battle of the five armies diorama… yeah that one that never got started, never mind finished.
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