Yes the winter feeling crap disease has hit the household. Tonight I managed to just about watch YouTube. The whole family is down with it. My wife ended up getting sent home from work.
Therefore painting things took a back seat. What is more weird was I went to work with a slight snuffle nine hours later I just about managed to drive home.
I now rattle there is so many cold and flu things inside me!
Hopefully it is a short lived thing🤒😷🤒🤧!
I thought I would drop by to let you all know that I am in fact still among the land of the living, haven’t been abducted by aliens or indeed got lost between home and work (but it was foggy the other morning).
Motivation to write, let alone paint anything has in fact taken a bit of a nose dive. But shock horror… I did in fact put paint to miniature this evening and made a small amount of progress on the skeletons I printed ages ago…
I went for green this time as it was handy and I couldn’t think of another colour I fancied.
At the weekend we went to Brucklands which is a recycling centre in the North of the islands. I went in hoping for a bit of a storage solution and shock horror I came home with this for a fiver…
As you can see I have already filled it up with crap. Sadly my cat food boxes don’t quite fit. I am covering them in black tape to make them less obvious. The photo was taken when I was having a test run.
Hopefully I will carry on with a bit of painting tomorrow.
Tonight I got wanted something simple to do so broke out the Greenstuff and added some bits to the big Chaos dude…
I basically got carried away hiding the arm seam.
I am also relocating back into the lounge… the conservatory is getting a little chilly. I wanted to see whether the dipping inks would fit.
Sadly I still have three to go and they won’t go in! After getting these in it dawned on me I had to take them back to school for the Geek club.
My new paints from Greenstuff World arrived the other day. I would have shown them sooner but i took them in to show the Geek club and promptly forgot them.
Here they are…
These will fill in some gaps nicely.
One day I might actually get around to using them!
So, as some of you know, I live on Shetland. An archipelago half way between Bergen and Aberdeen. it is 165 miles from Lerwick to Thurso via Orkney.
So as you might expect it can get a bit blowy in such an exposed position. In fact it has been so blowy that we haven’t had a boat for four days… hopefully it will be in tomorrow.
The bread, meat and fruit and veg aisles looked like this…
They had some gammon and pork, plus some bacon and one packet of sausages, three avocado, two beetroot, three punnets of plums and six packets of Eccles cakes.
The in store bakery section wasn’t bad. Obviously people seemed to only want sliced bread.
We were in to get some gift bags and some chocolates for a neighbour who helped capture our errant geese.
Living here does have its advantages though….
This was my run to work the other morning.
This evening I simply got some miniatures onto some MDF bases. Not a huge amount, but at least I achieved something.
Now all of the dwarves I have printed before this were for Joe. I fancied painting some myself. It has literally just dawned on me that these probably aren’t going to be super exciting as they are all pretty much armoured.
I said some time ago I fancied Mordheim again, one force I always fancied was the Dwarf treasure hunters. It looks like with these 3D ones it will be a possibility. The only things I haven’t got are the Dwarf juvenile types.
This evening was Parent Council night so I didn’t get back into the house until 21.30… really couldn’t be bothered to start anything, plus it was a bit late to fire up the Printer.
Hopefully Normal service will resume tomorrow.
As you know, the geek club is up and running we have about half an hour on the Tuesday lunchtime and an hour Friday after school.
I am supporting them to use various materials. Today was blue foam walls.
We were going to get the modelling compound on from Geek Gaming Scenics but we ran out of time.
They have written to various companies to see if they are willing to help out. They wrote one to Goonmaster but unfortunately we couldn’t find an address or email for them.
My left arm is aching a bit as I got my Covid jab. I got the flu jab in the other arm but can’t feel that one.
Well, they sort of look like they are… these are going to be for Ronin and will become a skirmish force to fight against…well whoever really. I have samurai, bandit as well as sohei to have a bit of a punch up with.
I have printed two lots out, one for me and one for Joe. These are from the same company that my Sohei came from. They have been slowly releasing the stretch goals, I can now also have a 15mm Turtle ship… part of me really wants to print it just for the hell of it!
The above were based twice. I had three left to glue and suddenly realised I also using the wrong sized bases. Luckily a scalpel helped me remove them without total carnage.
Now one of these has me a bit confused. He is middle row, second from the right and is armed with a firearm. He also has some strange device between him and the weapon. At first I thought it was a support I missed, but it would appear not.
For those who have English as a second language or those who are potentially not up on our colloquialisms then an argy-bargy is a bit of a verbal row.
By Heck the paint world has been rocked by a bit of a hoo haah about Army Painter Speedpaints and tye new Vallejo xpress range.
Evidently Juan Hidalgo said bad things about Speedpaints reactivating whilst working with Vallejo on their Xpress range.
Now as you know, I personally dislike Speedpaints and did exhaustive testing to see if I was in the wrong …according to Spikeybits it was my fault as I was indeed not varnishing between layers. … but I digress. Said Spikeybits has not taken a pop at Juan for not mentioning working alongside Vallejo. And it has gone nasty.
Funnily enough AP has just recruited people on their paint development team who never mentioned the reactivation… now to be fair they were in their initial testing they painted a model a single colour,but in later ones they did not.
As expected it has got a bit nasty now… I honestly don’t know how I feel about it. What Juan said was true, he didnt lie… he just didn’t mention he was testing paints for a competitors.
So excitement abounds to see what happens next!
