Bits and Pieces

Tonight I popped along to the club, my daughter was going to a school party, which was originally due on 20th December, but the great snow caused it to be pushed back.

I got on with planning some more for the one ring. I started another map for the next game. This time an underground map.

I got some more miniatures done for the geek club…

Five chameleons and a piggy warrior. Next will be rabbits and foxes. I am unable to keep up with them :).

Hopefully I will get some Mordheim painting tomorrow.

Evidently I needed De-Balling

Tonight I decided to get to grips with the tuft box. By the end I was making progress whilst being somewhat grass covered myself.

First off I tried 4mm and got good results. I then tried 6mm with a lot less success.

Left 4mm. Top right flock box 6mm. Middle 6mm from above

First off the 6mm on the box didn’t really do much as it had clumped up too much so after a bit of head scratching I got rid of as many as I could. They came out ok in the end after a bit if shaking from above. I did some blobs and the static pulled a couple off the paper. I shall not be beaten so I decided to de-ball myself, or rather the static grass!

I shove my balls in this device and shake them from side to side I then believe things will be better.

Like the box, I will have to play with some balls until I am happy with the outcome.

Finally this evening I printed the first of my Swamp Goblins…

I am in the process of printing a unit with hand weapons right now.

Whoops, what a Twit!

This evening we had another game if the One Ring. The party ended up getting lost, lots and finished the evening by killing a stone troll. Anyway my miniatures are stored in a BattleFoam bag and my biggest complaint has always been ‘there isn’t much room’. Tonight I made the startling realisation that it has two layers.

Now I have only had this thing five years or so… I may have known when I got it, but if I had done then it was totally forgotten! So there is lots of room for big miniatures now…

Talking of big!

These are the turbine blades for our wind farm they are absolutely massive. They fill up the deck of the ship!

New Zapper and some painting.

This evening I decided to try the tuft glue and flock box. Not sure what I did but I got a couple of little shocks from it. I will contact them and see what they say.

This is my first attempt using it…

The glue is still wet here so they look a bit weird.

I also managed to get this little chap finished in the Geek Club…

Feeling Ropey

So as the title says I am feeling a few twinkles short of a rainbow this evening. I have got things out and put them back so many times that I reckon I have burned all if the calories from my evening meal.

Hopefully tomorrow I will get something done. Its club night so I am going to attempt to go. Probably the safest bet us drive straight past home and head into Lerwick.

They are playing Grimdark Future by One Page Rules… so I have been mooching about to see what I have and voilà…

One small problem… I hate putting plastic miniatures together… I have also got this lot already painted though!

Something to ponder

What kind of Vehicle is this?

Well I went down another rabbit hole this evening looking at my family photos from before the 50’s and I came across this photo…

It almost looks like there is a tyre on the big wheel. The peaked caps make me think interwar, but it is a period I know very little about.

The other problem is I don’t know if the photo shows the front or the back!

All in all I am stumped!

First of the Fire Festivals

So we are into January and Fire Festival season is upon us. First up is the Scalloway one. This is the one I usually go and watch. Well my mates house is on the route and they have their Birthday on the 11th so they always combine the two.

Only a couple of photos as for some reason my phone camera started going all blurry.

Lighting up the torches
The march past… back of the procession

So I really doubt that I will get anything done on the witch hunters this evening.

Not a Bad Price

Well as you know I found my copy of Campaign Cartographer 3 last night so I dropped an email last night to Pro Fantasy Software to see if they could help. Ralf emailed me today and by time I got home he had found my old email address that I had registered it with.

So the million dollar question is how much did it cost to upgrade to allow me to use it on my new machine. Just under £13.00. I couldn’t have bought a CD drive for that.

So a big thank you to Ralf over at Pro Fantasy software for his speedy sleuthing. Look out for random maps in the future.

Because I haven’t got a suitable picture you can all play guess what the bloody hell this is…. taken with a microscope…

Personally I think it is rather interesting!