Yes the Lazy bugger that I am,  I decided that tonight I was doing sod all. Well I didn’t get in until 19.30 and had toothache,  and had had ‘one of those days’ not sure why, as work wise things went fine…

These are still in exactly the same place and state of completion as yesterday.

Oh yeah, I did do something this evening (I just remembered). I sliced and am printing a pumpkin  trophy for the kids in school. On Friday we are having a Halloween party, as the usual one is cancelled. The best pumpkin gets a prize and the trophy.

I managed to get the next lot of miniatures undercoated today😊

At the back is my broom bristle pike undercoater . I drilled holes in a lump of 2×1 and dropped the bristles in.

I didn’t get any painting done this evening as I was catching up with my STL backlog that needed downloading.

Back to work tomorrow so trying for an early night.

Yes, tonight I worked on, and got finished, the next lot of pikes….

Which to be is a bit of a relief as I thought I was beginning to struggle with them after the PLA reel incident, I kind if lost motivation. Normally I would just go and do something else for a while but people have guessed a date so I fell it is July fair that I keep to some kind of schedule. I will get these based up tomorrow sometime, and hopefully undercoat some more.

Tonight we had a fun family game of Horrible Histories board/quiz game…

I thought I would give you a heads up to see my next Kickstarter…

I do have a bit of a caveat here that this is from my friends company, but I have asked him to fire me a small stl so that I can show you how things look printed…

And finally, I found a broom that didn’t have bright red, white, green or yellow bristles…

I would have preferred a tan colour, but this was all Lerwick could supply me with, that wasn’t one of the above colours.

Today We were off gallivanting to the North of the island to get my daughter some tropical fish as well as have a mooch around Eshaness. She is very excited as two of the female Guppies are Gravid, so her shoal of five may expand a little. As a result we were back a bit late, so I didn’t get that much done.

I did manage the metal and pike shafts. Hopefully I will manage to get some more done tomorrow…

Thank you to everyone who answered my why do we do it question. I did enjoy reading the answers.

If you need to scare the cats away from your garden then my accidental selfie should help… I was shooting into the sun and could see did all…

Luckily the wind was blowing onshore as those cliffs are jolly tall. It was quite cute that my son came to get me in case I fell off.

I have had a busy day today, but luckily was in the mood to get some painting done…

Here we have the five and a bit sticks worth of pike strips. These were already undercoated so I thought I might as well start with them. There are enough here for three bases … basically 120 pikes on the sticks  I need 40 per base… therefore three bases. I never got the rest undercoated today, which is a sod, as there is strong wind and hail forecast for tomorrow 🙄.

Tonight, I ended up starting late, so I decided to get my additional pikes put onto their lolly sticks ready for spraying…

This, with the additions of the ones already undercoated, will give me 24 sticks or 96 six miniature strips. This should give me enough for my replacements and also easily enough to round off the Tercio.

These new ones are the flexible/ordinary resin, so hopefully they should be a bit more harder to damage, however I reckon a reel dropped from a metre would pretty much knack anything it hit.

I hope to get these sprayed tomorrow and make a start onbtge undercoated ones too.

Evidently painted resin pikes aren’t jmpervious to having an empty PLA spool dropped on them from about a metre…

As you can see some miniatures have totally ceased to exist. One base needs the front row replacing. One is complete gone I think as all of the Pikes on the right have gone.

Now the other week I did start pondering on how to replace the pikes in the middle and rear. I was going to use the flexible mixed resin and make only pikes that could be glued in situ. Either individually or in a strip.

Ironically, it happened as I was tidying up my painting station to avoid things getting damaged. I had taken a surplus box of cosplay resources out and put it on a top shelf, dislodging the PLA spool!

What surprised me is that any survived at all.

I will shortly go an sit in a darkened room until the urge to swear loudly and continuously goes away!

Funnily enough I had already taken a photo for tonight’s blog. Evidently it is not a good idea to fix a 2p onto a bit of wood with Copydex as, although it holds well, it leaves a heck of a sticky mess behind when you remove the coin…

This is evening I worked on some more strips for the Tercio. I managed to make another couple of bases with the pikes I started yesterday as well as getting four shot bases painted up too.

The arquebusiers still need some work on their weapons as well as the Burgundian cross for the colours. I set these ones in lines as they aren’t Skirmishes. They need some texture adding to their bases.

So if I stick with the half sized pike blocks then I only need another four bases worth, which to be honest, is a lot of pikes. I still have two guns and eleven bases of Skirmishers to do, not to forget another four bases of Tercio shot and two bases (at least) of swordsmen. Still a long way to go, but definitely over the hump now.

I was feeling a bit under the weather today and really didn’t want to do much. I managed to stay out of bed today, but it was definitely calling my name.

So I am actually a bit surprised that I got anything anything done this evening. But I managed to get two Tercio blocks finished and a good wagon the next two done. To be fair it took me pretty much the whole length of a film to do these three sticks, but at least it is progress…

I watched Captain Phillips this evening and found it a rather good watch. I watched Castaway yesterday and Phillips today… obviously on a Tom Hanks binge.