More on the Nuns

Well okay they aren’t exactly nuns, but I was getting sick of writing ‘sisters’.

Still a lot of white, but also a lot more metal. Yes tonight I was working on the armour.

I am really wanting these out of the way, not sure why, maybe because they have been sitting there for a couple of years or maybe because the Mordheim phase has passed.

One day it may come back, but until then I will keep painting  what I have to at least get them out of the way.

More Sisters

So I managed to get some more done on the Sisters of Sigmar this evening…

So this is them all. Going for a tan/brown to complement the red. Was actually a happy accident as I did the hair on the fourth from the right and really liked it.

Still lots to do, but making progress.

Pumpkin Success

So I ran my little taster session today and ended up with sixteen children who came along. Twelve girls and four boys. I got my camera out to take a photo and then a crisis occurred so… no photo.

The kids seemed to enjoy themselves and were very keen to come back next term and try something more complicated. Because of the numbers I will have to split them into two groups

I ended up faffing about on the hard drive by downloading all of the orks and goblins from Highland Miniatures. By time I got this done I decided it was too late to start painting… edit… I decided I needed to paint something today so started on the Sisters…

As you can see, I have decided on red instead of the blue and cream I did last time. Funnily enough I am a lot happier with them at this stage than I was before!

The previous colour scheme.

Pumpkins

Yes the printer worked with the ancient resin, well noy exactly ancient, but kept in the vat instead of the bottle.

I have twenty four of these little chaps for the kids to paint tomorrow.

I have them undercoated now and have a car full of paint, bases and flock.

Wish me luck, I actually haven’t got a clue when we are going to get them done tomorrow. We break up for the October break so will have to get them started and finished in one go.

Archers and Can Openers

Well it was absolutely my intention to get painting but I am going to run a Geek Club 2.0  in my new school. Off I set to print off some pumpkins for them to have a taster session. Sadly my flamin’ hard drive wouldn’t upen. Turns out it was a dodgy cable, thankfully I had a spare available. So a lot of wasted time occurred. I did manage to slice them and get the printer running. I took a bit of a risk with the resin left in the vat… I gave it a damn good stir… I will find out in 10 minutes if I should have dumped it.

Anyway, when I was out there I rescued this lot…

Eight archers and six can openers. I have the two already on the round bases so Eight of each. I also have the fantasyesque Jean D’arc too. The mounted version is already painted…

Hopefully painting will occur tomorrow!

Next!

Well I was trying to decide what to paint next. It was going to be the frog cavalry, with some potential human retinue miniatures, but the latter were in the bottom shed and needed putting on some bases. They then needed undercoating. In my attempt to find the bases then I came across these looking like this.

Therefore I think these will be next. I had them on a blue and cream livery before and for some reason I hated it…

So I resprayed… I now don’t like the skin tone as it is too dark, but you know what, I recon I can live with it.

So hopefully tomorrow I will come up with a colour I can be happy with.

Another Six Done

Well this evening was another try and chill one so I went for more painting of the knights.

I got this six to the touch up stage. This leaves a dozen. Half of them are on armoured horses.

Tomorrow I will try and progress another six. Not sure what to paint after these. I will have to sort out bases so they can fit into the movement trays. What I need to do is measure the originals and get in some MDF ones. Technically I could 3D print some, but really cannot be bothered.

Chevauchée Banner

This evening I had another bash at doing a banner fir the English on their Chevauchée. I decided on the above title as I thought English banner or Cross of St George a bit of a can of worms opener… might have increased the traffic loads.

So I was having a faff about and I think I have sorted out a suitable size. Basically 1 centimetre wide and about 4 long.  Evidently one of my French Knights nicked it and legged it back to the Dauphin.

My plan is to transfer the test onto plain paper instead of the squared one.

Another Interesting Question

How do you relax?

So I have two main ways to relax.

First up is my painting of miniatures etc. Although frustrating at times I do find it relaxing. I switch off and push paint around on a model.

Second is gaming, mainly through technology but also using miniatures. I tend not to go out much so the technology side is winning at the minute.

Technically reading should be in there too, but I tend to use audio books more than using my eyes.

Funnily enough I don’t find my 3D printing relaxing. Interesting yes, relaxing…no.