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.

Tonight I got the Fell beast done. There were some gaps on the wings and tail but I hauled out the Greenstuff and filled the last gaps this evening.

Now to be honest, I printed this at 90% size. You cannot really tell until you add the rider. He is now a bit on the small side but I reckoned built in evil and malice need not be in a giant.

I also got these six wraiths stuck onto bases. I really should have done some painting but I am knackered.

And finally, this was a little worrying when I saw it in the shed this evening…

Now to be up front these cans are pretty ancient, but I have never seen seepage like this before. It Han bubbled out all around the bottom join.

Well my 8 hour print was successful and so was the following 6 hour one. I have a print going just now and will then need to print the rider but I am really pleased with this so far…

The 32mm skeleton will give a sense of scale. I have added green stuff to the tail and wing joint and will do the same with the right wing.

Once this is done I will slice up some cavalry for a bit of oomph and then see what I think. Bows are going to be my box of 16 GW skeletons. it would be good if I could find another six to bulk them out to two units of twelve. I could of course print some command figures to do the job for me.

Well tonight I got the command minis off the build plate as well as half a dozen wraiths…

I also painted a skeleton with a flag…

I also decided to do my longest resin print at 8 hours… I nearly over filled the vat…

And finally… I took this photo at 23:59 on the way to check on the printer.

As you can see it is still light out there… ah the joys of 22 hours of light a day.