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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…