Today I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I did manage a bit. I managed to get the crossbows onto bases as well as add some bits to a couple of the miniatures. The bits added were a couple of severed heads onto the spear and a bell onto an other one.

The only problem with these is that they are a bit on the small size, but to be honest they will be in their own separate unit so it may not be so obvious.

I also got some paint onto the ghouls and the skeletal bases…

I also started printing some dwarves for Joe. Two dozen printed and six in the machine now.

On a totally different note… I watched a couple of Underworld films on Netflix… well it was on in the background and it was a bit weird… the vampire needed a torch to go into dark spaces… she is a Vampire, night walker…by definition she shouldn’t need a torch… okay I know I need to suspend belief, but it did make me chortle a bit.

My second last prints came off the printer today. I now have twelve Dinocrocuta to get painted.

Because I am a total pillock I keep adding to the pile of stuff I need to paint… I think I have the following..

Twelve small ghouls

Six large ghouls

Nine zombie villagers

Seven riders for the horses in progress

One big beastie and it’s rider

I got everything undercoated apart from the beastie rider…so hopefully painting will commence tomorrow.

Here are a selection of the Dinocrocuta…

They have a nice brutish feel about them…

Oh and in case you were wondering the final print were a skeletal Megaloceros and skeletal Smilodon.

Today Joe an I had a morning of painting and then another game of Silver Bayonet.

We basically had to go and rescue some gold from a swamp… slight issue was the scary dog.

So we rolled as per the usual method, but more importantly was the controller of the spectral black dog. Muggins here lost the important roll and was attacked by the dog. It leapt onto my poor doctor who err fell over after getting a nasty bite from a dog who suddenly appeared. The terror roll was at minus 8 on my roll, which was a bugger as I rolled a four on two D10.

Luckily I gained control of the dog for a few turns and managed to get rid of the opposition’s swordswoman. My Supernatural investigator managed to get onto the flank and cause some casualties

My troops had also got their eye in and managed to drop both the officer and doctor. My occultist did everything she could to bless the weapon of the officer, eventually she made, it allowing the officer to wound the dog, sadly though the dog then attacked her…

somehow she survived, especially when a certain person used an awful lot of points to try and bump her off…

In the end the dog attacked the investigator, the occultist managed to bless his weapons, leading to the death of the beast.

In the end, Joe was down to two miniatures remaining, who took the sensible option and legged it.

This left me in charge of the battlefield as well as the gold… and for the first time a win.

It was a great game…

Today I spent more time finding ghouls to print than I did painting. I decided to go for some multi pose ones as it will give me more options.

However as you can see they are huge. This is a problem using different creators…Now I am in two minds.

First is to give these ones away and reduce the size by about 20% so that they fit in as ghouls.

Second is to say bugger it and just run with them as they are… it is a fantasy army after all.

I want twelve of them and have three glued together and three are sitting on the printer so it won’t be too much of a hassle to shrink them and reprint.

I got this far with the zombies…

Yes it is officially tye end of my 56th journey around the sun today. Time certainly has flown. I had a great day and got some awesome presents too…

The kids know I like lego, not shown are the sweeties.

I had a pretty relaxing day but to be honest the best present was that BoJo has resigned… here endeth the political segment of the post…

I did manage to get a dozen wraiths painted today

As you can see they are in two distinct styles… this gives me a but of flexibility, two units of six or one of twelve… so that is 50 miniatures up to this stage so far this week.

Tomorrow I hope to get the Boyar started, I doubt they will get finished as there are some complex armour and cloth mixtures to sort out.

Today I went out into the shed to find two of the three things on the plate had failed. So after cleaning the Vat and re levelling the build plate I put a new vat in and reprinted the files and voila it worked fine. I was a bit miffed as one of them was totally over supported.

I also sliced some undead Boyar infantry and some Zombies too. With my patreon account I get 50% off so these were additional purchases. I was really good and didn’t go wild… I really could have done.

With two of us painting on Tuesday I wanted a paint pot holder. As I was in the shed I came across some empty resin bottles. The lids were a perfect size. So I cleaned them in ISO and also nuked them in the curing station. Cut some EPVC and voila two paint pot holders…

I sanded both bits to roughen up the surfaces and then used the hot glue gun to fasten them together.

I spent a good portion of this morning putting together the GW skeleton bowmen.. two things stuck me whilst doing this…

The first being: I absolutely bloody hate putting plastic models together, they were a sod and as I was using poly cement took an age to fully stick.

The second being: why are GW skeleton archers all left handed, whilst the sword and spearman are all right handed…

Anyway I made a unit of twelve archers and got them undercoated…here they are before getting sprayed:

I also got all six wraith cavalry printed too…

I am printing a mounted Liche from Ian Lovecraft on one of the mounts above… not sure if it will work, but with greenstuff I should be able to fill any gaps. I still have more to print, but I have made a start on painting the skeletons. Joe and I are going to have a painting day on Tuesday afternoon. Hopefully I will get loads done then.

Today was the last day of term so we had a little soirée at a colleagues house. I spent the evening slicing skeleton cavalry for printing. I also decided to try out one of the GW skeletons…

They are a bit smaller than the 3D printed ones. For some reason their heads seem huge. Now I am not sure if these will work with the other ones. I will do another couple, get them sprayed and do a test paint.