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More Painting

Well I got some more paint slapped on the metal commanders this evening…

Not particularly happy with the black and white. I was using ancient white paint, and to be honest it needs binning. It has had so much medium in it it has started to reactivate the paint underneath. The blaze and stockings on the horses are in fact pure white… as is the bridle on the left!

As it was so crap I opened up a brand new Corax White. I mixed it for bloody ages then dropped the sodding pot…sadly this happened!

This is seriously a newly opened pot that I stirred for about 5 minutes. I did think that after I dropped it then an air pocket or perhaps forcefield had stopped the paint escaping.

I mean I really should have guessed that it was crap when I saw the solid lump of paint inside.

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An Interesting Question

Why do you blog?

The short answer to the question is to help me with my hobby projects. It started off with blogging about something I had painted. In 2017 I started this blog and have now posted 2395 Times. The Longest streak was 960 days, which frankly is bonkers. The Longest blog streak prior to starting this one was 3 days.

I have ‘met’ some amazing people via this blog and follow a lot back. This is definitely a supportive community. 

I am about half way through my allocated space allowance so I reckon I have got about another five years to go.

As for the long answer… that will have to wait… I need to go to sleep!

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Painting with White (and a Druid)

Well after a bit of a hiatus, I eventually got down to going over all of the remaining horse tack with white…. very, very boring but I got them all done. Well I will probably notice a pile I missed when I add the photo!

Tomorrow I should be able to start adding colour.

Talking of colour I added more to the druid bust…

I am much happier with the autumnal leaves than the mixture I had below.

Still the cloak and hair colour to consider, but I will get there.

Oh and while I remember, I got a DNA kit for my birthday and the results came through. Basically I am 95.1% British with the rest French/German. Based on the  info I am from roughly the Humber to Glasgow.

I am definitely a ‘Sais Bach’ little Saxon’ as they say in Wales.

Oh yeah and I have more Neanderthal DNA than 42% of other people.

Nothing too exciting really…

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Tidying Up

Well this evening  I set about painting in the bridles and trappings white. A totally tedious job, but it is what I get when I am messy. Forgot to take a photo, which is a first!

You can see the mess I made in the photo above.

Now to be honest I am going to have to be strong and resolute and get these finished as Wargames Atkantic are bringing out 10mm plastic Samurai/Ashigaru boxes…

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Manes and Tails

This evening I blasted through the dark manes and tails on the horses.

I still have the lighter ones to do, eight of the plastics. Then I need to make a start on the metal ones.

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Aliens – Fireteam Elite

Well when I was South I picked up the game for £12. This evening I decided to give it a try. The premise was cool. Third person Alien shooter, various missions co-op or single player.

Frankly, I was disappointed. Now it definitely isn’t Alien Isolation, this one is more of a shooter and for me it got boring very quickly. I persevered and got a fair old way through the first mission, managing to fire around a  whopping 1500 rounds on the old pulse rifle. That in itself says it all… disclaimer… my accuracy wasn’t brilliant on the swarm levels!

I stopped using the pulse rifle and switched to my shotgun for those close encounters.

Basically the game is as follows:

The game contains four story campaigns with three missions each, and the player is accompanied by two allies who can be controlled by another player or by an AI. There are five levels of difficulty and twenty types of enemies, and weapon customization and character progression are present within the game.

The synthetic marines were quite interesting. Sadly there were some other synthetics in the game that reminded me of the Working Joe’s in Isolation. At least these ones fell over when shot.

I will play some more this weekend and see what I think. I basically got it for further ideas for my Aliens RPG.

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Down a ‘Horse’ Rabbit Hole

Well this evening I decided to see what horses I had knocking about either online or on hard drives. This quick little job took longer than expected. I do think I will have something to make up another six heavy knights though.

On a totally different note, this is the view inside my new school…

I decided to pop in when it was empty.

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My Claymore Haul

Well as promised here is what I purchased whilst off gallivanting.

So left to right:

A couple of Victrix Roman Legionary sets (one advancing, the other attacking). These will be used against my celtic types. Yes I know, they should probably be late republican, but hey, this was my first reenactment period so I am biased.

Middle top four 1p movement trays that cost me 20p a shot. Some Game Forge spray paint to try out and some mdf casualty markers.

Top right- some Perry metals. The only mounted Hundred Years War command pack that was left (well that I could see anyway). This one has Jean D’Arc, La Hire and the B*stard of Orleans (Jean de Dunois). These really need a good clean up.

An ox cart suitable for the Romans and below that a 6-8mm ruined city block set. I have decided to get out my 6mm road wars stuff and try to get it all finished.

Part of me wishes I had picked up a set of Roman Auxiliaries, but these came in separate cavalry, spear armed and bow armed sets. It would have helped to have had smaller pack sizes. I could have got a Pack of light field artillery too. If I had have got the above then the Romans would have outnumbered the barbarians.

As I mentioned in Saturday’s post. I really could have spent a whole lot more money.

Tomorrow my Wife and two eldest head off on their trip. My son and I are going to binge watch as many war films as we can… starting with one of these: ‘The Guns of Navarrone’, ‘The Longest Day’, ‘The Battle of Britain’ or ‘Zulu’. Starting with the classics.