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Skeletal Cavalry

Tonight I did a smidge of painting…

I probably would have got a lot more done, but my eldest and I bought Baldur’s Gate 3.

The red one among them is for the vampire.

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Army Painter Awesomeness

Well as you know, I said that I had written to The Army Painter for the Geek club and that they were total dudes as they had sent the kids some Speedpaints 2.0. The kids wrote thank you letters and Peder sent us a message back . He also said he would pop us some more paint.

The kids were actually doing a happy dance when we opened the package with this lot in…

So as far as the Geek Club and I are concerned the team at Army Painter have ascended from total dudes to absolute awesome dudes of awesomeness.

So once again I want to just share their awesomeness. We aren’t YouTube influencers. We are a little school club. To these few kids they have made a huge impact.

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Goblins, Paints and Bats.

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.

17 pots
26 bottles

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!

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Colouring In

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…

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A Massive Thank You to Army Painter

So as you know a while a go I wrote a post about the kids in the Geek Club writing to companies that I have spent a lot of money in and they basically ignored the kids.

Anyway before the summer I wrote to The Army Painter on behalf of the kids. I got a nice email back saying I should apply for a sponsorship (I cannot remember the full name). It said give as many details as I could, which I did. Basically five kids in my little school club. It said on the form that they have loads of such requests and to be honest I really thought we were maybe a bit small.

After the summer break I got an email from Peder saying they were going to send us some paints and some brushes. They duly arrived and the kids loved them. Obviously as a teacher you never miss an opportunity to get kids writing. Today we got a lovely email from Peder thanking us for the lovely letters and addressed all of the kids by name. He even said he was sending us some more paint. So according to me and the Geek Club, Peder is a totally Top bloke and The Army Painter are a totally Top Company.

I just wanted to share a positive story…

I am really happy with the Speedpaints 2.0 and after getting the set for my birthday I am probably going to try the metallics and some other colours have caught my eye.

Here is my Speedpaint knight from a couple of weeks ago.

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Printer back to Printing…

I hope!

So last night after having another failure I decided that enough was enough and that i Would relevel the bed. Good job I checked as although the front bolt was well and truly solid, thse side one was decidedly loose.

So I took out the resin, did a tank clean, which I had never done before and relevelled the plate. I gave some 40mm Gladiators another go. Yesterday I got two bodies and nothing else, today I got everything.

I am doing a reprint of the pair I printed the other day.

Today’s print on the left, yesterday’s on the right

Hopefully I will get everything printed on that one too. Everything seems to have printed properly.

Today i did battle with the rotten floorboards in the lounge… i won, but it was a close run thing… This is the joys of a 200 year old house that has no foundations and everything sits directly on the ground (the floor is about 6 inches above the soil). After feeling quite proud of myself, I found some more that need replacing… i must admit i did say the off naughty word, especially as I had just nailed the replacements down. if i had noticed earlier my life would have been easier as i could have used the spaces i had made to eaily remove the extra bits…

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Knights and a Gladiator

Tonight I managed to slap some paint on some miniatures. I was hoping to have a couple of gladiators to paint, sadly an arm and head failed to print… which was a bit of a pain.

I managed to do a bit on a pair of the knights and some associated foot soldiers.

I also got the one gladiator almost finished…

He won’t win any prizes but I wanted to give one a go. Again he is about 40mm to eye level.