I am beginning to think that this Italian Wars stuff will take forever. I was working on the skirmishers and the laptop ran out of battery… so no flexible skirmishers this evening. I decided to just do them in their fours, but to make them with the flexible mix to give them a bit more strength.

This evening was a familygames evening so jot much happened on the painting front. I did manage to get the British vessels undercoated and base coated…

I got a spray can in town that looked the perfect colour…sadly it lied. Luckily I found a Dark Angels green from Army Painter that got the them to a more useable colour.

I must have dropped the Gunboat about three times whilst trying to spray it.

My tooth is better, but somehow I buggered my wrist… so no painting this evening. So instead I decided to make some 6mm skirmish units for the Imperial Army. After about an hour faffing about I packed in as I was getting absolutely nowhere.

My plan was to do a multi miniature irregular strip with four to half a dozen arqubusiers on it. Two of these would make a base worth.

It didn’t help that I was tired… I will retry making an irregular base in Meshmixer and then adding in the miniatures.

Tonight I managedto get the two bases finished. I used any spares to replace some of the earlier casualties…

I will get the artillery undercoated tomorrow and see about getting as much done this weekend as I can.

I also cured the ironclad bases…

Here they areall perched on the bases. I will, cure the other two tomorrow and get these undercoated with the 6mm stuff.

Regarding the toothache, imanated to getan emergency appointment. I am pleased to say that they let me keep it. Most people who have gone to the dentist lately have had their teeth whipped out. My gob does fell like I have been slapped a few times, but at least I can speak without whimpering now. Evidently my u finished root canal work had decided to give up the ghost and create a bit of excitement…

I didn’t eat until about 20.00 this evening, so this had a knock on effect. Sadly I never got the German vessels printed, but they are on their way now. They are totally different to the British vessels in the aesthetics.

I also managed to do a long overdue job, which was to clean the ISO. It had settled nicely so I poured off the cleaner stuff then ran the rest through a funnel and filter.

I did however, manage to get some work done on the pikes…

Yes, back to the pikes again… weapons, base, feathers and flesh to do and they’re ready for glueing down…

I also popped out to the shed to take something off the printer, see my next post for what it is, but on the way out I noticed this leaf in the lights….

I thought it deserved a photo before it disappeared.

The Northern lights are visible from some areas of Shetland, so I went to investigate… there seemed to be some colour up there so I came in for the camera and tripod…. First off both camera batteries are flat and secondly the bit that the camera uses to fasten to the tripod doesn’t fit! So if there is anything out there, I won’t be getting a photo.

I have a very happy boy as he really liked his Halloween prop and got Kudos as all his friends really liked it…

After I took this photo I used some black webbing to make him a sling.

We played more family games tonight. This time Herd Mentality… a game where you score points if you are in the majority with your answers. Good fun was had by all.

I did however, get some more pikes started….

The above is roughly two bases worth…I will, carry on plugging away until I have enough…

My son wanted his Nerf Gun pimped a bit for his fancy dress costume tomorrow evening. Luckily he asked me today. Still a long way to go but we are getting there.

I am doing it, with his help, to his specifications… tomorrow the blue grey lines get white added on the inside.

The magazine and stock are just about done, so it is the main weapon that needs the work. He wants the pump action and hand grip done black. Luckily I have a black rattle can knocking aboutjn the shed.

Yes, after a couple of days of shirking, I got around to finishing off the the three strips of miniatures….

After taking the photo I realised that I needed to some tidying up as well as painting the drums, but I did manage to get them into the bases.

I have nineteen 6 figure strips to paint, considering, this lot made only two bases, and even then I had to add some extras that were already painted.

I reckon I will get three bases worth done. However some will need to be used for repair on the squashed bases.

Tomorrow I am going to actually see how many bases I have, I kind of have an inkling that this is enough…. I decided to have a look now….

I actually have enough to use without repairing anything, but I probably will as the extras are primed anyway.

The Tercio would look like this half sized….

It looks a bit weird but I can probably live with it.

Not again, I hear you cry, but this time I was doing Dad’s taxi and dinner making service… so I really didnt get sat down until gone 20.00. However I did have to sort out the trophy, so utvwzs undercoated and then I tried painting it with Army Painter Metallic Gold. 10 minutes of shaking like buggery and it still wasn’t mixed. So I tried a couple of coats, total and utter waste of time, so once it gad cured a bit then it was out with the shiny copper spray.

The second reason was that I was downloading my Aliens and Marines, sadly they were online as individual miniatures and it took forever to download them, so to calm everyone down, I thought I would share

Not a bad view I thought, this us taken as I saw it, no filters were used…