What’s a place you visited that felt like home?
The odd thing is, when I first rolled off the ferry in Lerwick in February 2006 to attend my interview I honestly felt like I had come home.
Luckily I got the job and am still here. I have lived here longer than anywhere else in the UK and it now is home. I have lived in this house for 18 years now so… Yeah home.
Well I ended up off work today. Totally knackered, ended up asleep for about three hours this afternoon.
I did however manage to get the civilians started…
I also finished my map I started when I was coming back on the boat…
Just about finished me off, so I reckon I will be off again tomorrow unless I suddenly bounce back.
So I made a start on the undercoated lot from yesterday…
Made a start on five, nine left to go.
I was in our scrap store today, a charity organisation that employs adults with learning difficulties. I saw this interesting box…
Hopefully I will carry on painting tomorrow…
If you could pick any fictional animal to be your lifelong companion (like a Pokémon or fantasy pet), what would it be?
Well I must admit I have wracked my brains and pretty much drew a blank from literature. It could have been a cop out and given a stereotypical fantasy answer… Not going to say what as I don’t want to offend anyone.
So anyway literature seems to be up the Swannie (is this a family expression or more widespread?)
So I started looking at Gaming and then thought about the shoulder pets in Ark Survival Evolved and an answer just popped into my head.
This is a Shinehorn. It is a ‘Glow Pet’. This little creature has a built in light system to allow exploration in the dark. It has its own inventory so can be used as a backpack. It is rubbish in a fight and quite frankly I don’t use them any more in game. But think of the savings in Torch batteries.
And ready to go.
I was so knackered that I had a bit of an afternoon nap. Then really couldn’t be arsed so this is as far as it got.
Didn’t really get that much done today. I got the basing material onto the good guys and when dried got them and the cultist bases painted. One in the middle looks a bit darker as some idiot threw red on by accident and instead of wiping it off tried to hide it by slapping the brown on.
I have been busy with the computer….sadly it died so yesterday I decided to try and fix it.
My mate was wanting some stuff 3D printed so I needed my machine to slice the files.
I decided to wipe the machine so have had to start redownloading my necessary software.
Miniatures and buildings…
So merrily completing the Italian Wars stuff it dawned on me I might need some terrain. Now I have got woods etc, so no problem there, but what about buildings…
Now this is one I made… Scale of the house fits the scale of miniature at a 1:1 ratio.
But when you get a force where one miniatures might be 10 or even 50 men. The house would then be massive by that premise.
So the question is what do you do. I know some people scale the buildings down to denote a larger settlement. I find that hurts my head.
How does your mindset affect your financial success?
Well this is a turn up for the books I never realised they were linked… Probably why I am skint.
Skydiver survives 10,000ft fall with no parachute until last moment.
Well I think that’s how it would generally work…
You survive the first 10,000 feet and then the only thing that is likely to survive a fall like that is in fact a corpse.
As it happens the lady in question pulled the ripcord at 1000 feet so technically she fell 9000 feet without using a parachute!
Lazy titling, AI generated or click bait…who knows.
Now to be honest, it does happen…Nicholas Stephen Alkemade was a tail gunner in a burning Lancaster who decided to jump without a parachute rather than burning. Fell about 18000 feet and lived to tell the tale. He died in 1987.
and paints
So along with crested gecko transportation I managed to dive into Wonderland models in Edinburgh…it really is a wonderful land of all things toys, kits, model railways, paints… You name it they probably have it.
They have Perry Miniatures, Frostgrave, Stargrave, Oathmark and Bolt action as well as a wall full of Victrix.
I went for some Balearic slingers to bulk out my republican Romans.
I got some desert yellow spray cans and the two pots of AP Speedpaint.
Now the Scottish Tabletop show was on Saturday, but at £25 a ticket then I decided against going.
I don’t mind paying to get into a show, but that seemed a bit steep for me to square away.
