Well today was the first of the official Geek Club MKII. I had twelve of the thirteen turn up. The other wasnt feeling too good. Pretty much everyone got their mushroom dude either finished or nearly finished. Some decided to add flock to their base and others took them home.
I believe they enjoyed themselves… we will see next week!
Because I am a pillock, I forgot to photograph their hard work. So here is the sun rising over the hills on the way to work…
There certainly isn’t Mushroom in it…
Fifteen miniatures done for tomorrow’s Geek Club. We always start on the same one to help me show them what to do.
I do have another nine that got undercoated this evening. Unfortunately some of the bases hadn’t cured properly so I will blast them with the light tomorrow.
So this evening I got in at 21.30 because of a parents evening. I also needed fuel and needed to det the horse in. All in all, I really couldn’t be bothered to do much.
I did manage to get the last five miniatures off the printer for the new Geek Club.
Instead of an armed and dangerous teddy bear I went with a mushroom dude.
I just noticed it was blurry. He is one of a number from a new kickstarter I noticed and jumped on board to get some cool stuff for the club. I have thirteen signed up so far.
That about describes how I feel this evening… sadly no painting, building or even rule reading. I did however manage to 3D print some miniatures for the new Geek Club at the end of the week.
Well this evening I decided to hunt out my various Ancients rules.coukd I find them all? Could I like heck. Spent the whole evening hunting through the house.
I managed to find only a couple, so sadly no painting occurred. It didn’t help that I remembered Fallout 76… well it is research for the RPG…that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it.
This evening I set out to do the last undercoated celtic cavalryman. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep my eyes open; so I got this far…
My latest Warbases order arrived and although a bit on the large side I am happy enough with the chariot bases.
The rectangle in the middle is 100mm x 50mm. My thinking was that the Celts would use the chariot almost like a transport system and would fight on foot. I can therefore shove the odd warrior or two in this role.
Well no painting tonight as my youngest decided he was going to join the cadets. So as my good lady is away I took him in. Firstly he wanted to meet his friends on the other side of Lerwick. Secondly the cadets poster was wrong and it wasn’t on, thirdly he lost his phone. Luckily I was trying to find him in Lerwick and not London. In the end I went back to the place I dropped him off at. Luckily he was there.
I am now having a lie down in a darkened room.
So here is my Warlord chariot, taken straight from the Angus MacBride painting I would guess.
These are the plastics..actually Wargames Factory and not Atlantic like I said yesterday.
These shaggy little ponies are exactly what they should be looking like. The one thing that bugs me about some manufacturers is that all of their horses are about sixteen hands high at the shoulder, instead of the sub fourteen hands they should be for the earlier periods. From the archeology it is found that the majority of horses in the Middle ages stood at thirteen to fourteen hands
I mean even the Scots Greys at Waterloo were on fourteen hands and under. This it the standard upper height of a pony. If you bear in mind that I am 5’10 and not a skinny bloke I ride my fifteen hands and have also ridden Fjords and Icelandics and they are between thirteen and fourteen hands. I n case you were wondering a ‘hand’ is 4 inches.
Okay Rant over, not even sure why I had it …☺️
We tried Silver Bayonet tonight and the worst Dice throws ever occurred at the table. Thankfully they weren’t mine.
A rifleman did shoot one of my infantrymen, but in the final turn I managed to snatch victory in the last turn.
So a while ago I mentioned doing my DNA. Last week a lady reached out, it turns out we were a bit of a match… fourth cousins from what I remember.
Anyway I decided to sort out my family tree mainly on my mother’s side. I have found loads more matches on both sides now.
I have ground to a bit of a halt as I am back into the mid 17th century.
This was early afternoon. I am now back two generations from John in 1710. William and Janet are the best match, with William’s father being about as far back as I can go. This my Grandfather’s side (Mum) with her mother’s side going back to about 1649.
I now have to delve deeper back into my Dad’s side. I have got back to 1815 with his.
Interestingly, two people have popped up in Australia and Canada.
Well this evening I went to the gaming club so didn’t get much time to get anything painted. I made a start on my frog riders…
The biggest problem I had with these was making sure I had chosen the same green as the other three that were already painted. This was in fact Greenstuff World Dipping ink, which thankfully was in the house and still usable.
My son and I are having a painting session tomorrow. He is doing some fantasy chaos dudes (Blades of Khorne). I shall carry on with the frogs.
Bogenwald 