So if you remember I got a static grass applicator for Christmas

This evening I decided to give it a go. After a total panic that I had left all of my static grass in the Geek Club box in work, I eventually found some. I had this about six years. Ages ago I bought a couple of Serious Play boxes from EBay. Luckily the contents were still in the printer shed.

I started off testing GW 2 or 3mm static grass. I am not sure how long I have had it, but the tub of it cost £4 which would indicate a while. Anyway I tried Geek Gaming Scenics fast drying basing glue As well as Wwscenics basing glue. I am no chemist but to my eyes they are the same stuff.

I then tried Serious Play 4mm and then their 6mm. Sadly the 4mm was a single colour, the 6mil has various tones and looks good.

Finally I had a go at layering the different lengths. Started with the 2 mil. Dotted on glue for the 4 mil and finally went for some dots of 6mm.

I am really chuffed with how well it worked. Layering is definitely the way to go… especially with the colours I have here. I forgot to try just 2 and 4mm to see how that looked. Something to try tomorrow… as well as seeing what other grass I have lying around somewhere.

Now in the past I have used the ebay cheap fly swat and plastic tub variety and have used PVA as that was what j had at the time. To be honest. I should have got one of these from the start, the results after five minutes of messing around speak for themselves. I have decided to get some new grass from WWS as well as some tuft glue and Silicone paper.

If anyone is faintly thinking about these I would go and watch the YouTube channel found Here. I found it super useful.

I also spent a fair old bit of today slicing miniatures based on my Mordheim lists.

So from my viewpoint definitely worth the purchase. If we go back to the undead army I put tufts on everything. My biggest problem was having enough of the same colours. I now have a way to make my own.

I have a list for the following groups…

Skaven, Reikland, Kislevite, dwarf treasure hunters, undead, Sisters of Sigmar, Witch Hunters and the Possessed. At the minute I can print everything above apart from the Kislevites.

These are the start of my Witch Hunter force as well as the Vampire leader of the undead.

Oooh I sound like I am totally commercialised. I did listen and sing along to some carols this morning… so I am not totally a lost cause yet 🙂

I got some chocs and a funky frog front the kids, a One Ring adventure book from Joe, which is really cool as it will give us a lot of game time in the new year.

My good lady listened to my suggestions and I got these…

The kids liked their printed things, which was a bit of a relief.

Hopefully Mr Beardy was good to you all

Well I just wanted to pop on and Wish everyone a Merry Christmas.

Fifty minutes until Mr Beardy comes down the chimney, Which is a bit of a bugger if he tries in the kitchen as we took the stove out, blocked up the hole and put a shelf unit in front of it.

We took the stove out a week before the power was off for a Week which shows my amazing timing.

I hope Santa brings you everything you want. He popped over ours today in a helicopter…

This evening was spent watching ´The Glass Onion’ and painting un festive ghouls…

To make up for it here is something festive -ish!

Yes there are many Epic journeys in history, Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan and Christopher Columbus to name a few. Little did I know that my journey this morning would be something close (okay I might be exaggerating a lot). I left the house before 10.00 and returned at 17.45. Why I hear you ask. A bit of shopping and the last few stocking fillers.

Lerwick was absolutely mental. Every single shops had queues outside the door. The Supermarket had actually run out of carrier bags, (I had forgotten to take mine in with me) they were giving out banana boxes.. I actually got  two from the last five in  the store.

I actually did have some success with a 3 foot live  Christmas tree…£6.25 instead of £25.

In the end we got pretty much everything we wanted.

On the hobby front, I managed to get the Batman and Harley finished. I also got some new miniatures glued together and onto bases. Can you guess what the game is going to be…

My son keeps pestering us for a lizard, thankfully we never gave in as five days without power would have been the end of it.

This one should be able to withstand most temperature ranges we get up here…

The snow has gone and the temperature has risen 10 degrees… the downside is the flooding and the odd landslide.

We are slowly returning to normality here. Temperature has jumped from -2° to 7°  and we now have heavy rain and strong winds. I am hoping that the 6 inches of ice up my track dissappear before I try to drive up it tomorrow, but I am not holding my breath.

I feel a bit sorry for the kids at school. They were meant to be doing their musical and sales evening on the 12th the day we lost power for a week. We had one more chance to do it at a concert tomorrow night and that has now been cancelled. They put a lot of planning and effort into making some great games as well as making lots of things to sell.

We can hold the raffle in the new year, but all of their items were Christmas related. We will nox ig up and sell it next year as luckily it will keep, apart from the sweets, but at least they can take them home to share with their families.

Well the snow is sort of hanging in there. The weight of oit has buckled the porch roof and damaged the roofing felt. I now have snowmen water dripping into a bucket. To be fair the roof really needed replacing in my October break but sadly the wind was too strong, from what I remember.

The gritter came along the spur to rescue us today and promptly slid into the ditch. It was good of them to try though. We did manage to get out into Lerwick, the place devoid of snow.

On the up side the temperature has resents four degrees and things are beginning to melt, on the down side they reckon -1° tonight so the nice thawed stuff will freeze solid.

To be fair to the electric company they are giving us a good wadge of compensation. Sadly my tropical fish didn’t survive the cold temperatures though. Luckily I only had two so it wasn’t a huge tank full.

You may have wondered where I had gone… or maybe not…the last time you heard from me I was sat in a blizzard in a queue of stationery traffic. Snow was expected, but not to the levels we saw. I am Back… why then has it taken so long …well we lost power on Monday at 15.00 and it returned today (Friday) at 18.30.

Temperatures were down to -2° outside and our bedrooms were sitting at 10° so not exactly the warmest few days. Luckily we have a gas stove as well as a couple of gas bottle heaters for the lounge and kitchen.

The snow was so heavy that it snapped power lines as well as snapped the power poles. In my valley alone we had ten down or disabled. Two poles were in half.

We had around 6 inches on top off the stuff already down with some drifting… here I am stood on top of the snow… nope I am not Legolas, the snow had frozen solid. The council didn’t come and plow or grit my road so we have a good old bit of ice driving to get to the bit where they had gritted…

Finally this is my normal pose

My school was affected by the power outage too so we have all been home all week.

The weird bit is the snow isn’t everywhere… my road and Lerwick… spot the difference!

The snow starts about 5 miles from me. People in Lerwick couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about! Can’t say I blame them!

There were around 6500 homes without power this week. The Engineers did an amazing job to get so many people back online.. they basically had to rebuild the West and North of the power grid.

Do You want to build a snowman ? Well you certainly could here today!

I have been sat for an hour as a vehicle has got stuck on the only road from the West…

Time to get out and clear the snow from the windscreen.

And painting!

Tonight I set to work rebasing my 10mm elves. You may remember I had left them in the shed and the mdf bases on a fair few armies had an attack of white mould.

Over the past few weeks I had been getting them of the MDF and last night thought I might as well get them back onto bases.

I also got some more done on the skeletons as well as used up ends of filament rolls making more flexible walls