Well there is no painting or anything tonight, i had a nice hike looking for Neolithic Archaeology today… you can read about it here…Neolithic Landscape

Gaming tomorrow night, but I may have time to get some more bits and bobs done.

I have got some ideas for making 2mm grape vines to go along with my Romanesque buildings. I might have a play in a minute and see how the idea works. They will not, however, look like this….

Today I managed go get some more slicing and printing done. More Gauls have been added to the box. I also managed to shrink my 6mm Italian buildings down to fit the 2mm troops…

Here they are next to their larger cousins. I put a 2mm elephant in the foreground.

I am also printing more 2mm troops. This time with an oval shield.

I had a bit of a problem with a couple of the last 10mm buildings. The two on the left warped… probably a support failure.

Today I had to sort out the header tank for the septic tank. Luckily it wasn’t as bad as last time.

Tomorrow we are going up Ronas Hill… Shetland’s largest. We are off to look at a stone axe ‘factory’

Mind blowing fact… well it us to me… Iceland (the country, not the shop) is closer to Shetland than Yorkshire and Faroe is closer than Aberdeen…

Well… it is sort of a night off… I haven’t  painted anything, but I did get some more slicing done on Carl’s 10mm buildings…

Because of their height there is a 6 hour print time.

I have also started looking for hex maps of the Punic Wars… there is a Strategy and Tactics version thT may be of use… I will have to have a look and see what else I can find.

So I am going forcan early night tonight and will take a book to bed with me….

Today has been ‘one of those days’ work wise so I wasn’t really jn the mood to do much, but I did print and cure some more 2mm miniatures. I then got the Roman infantry put onto a painting support…I say Roman, but they will, do for other troops too.

I also did some slicing of some 10mm buildings for my mate Carl and then I set about compiling our Irregular miniatures order. This took ages as the PayPal app part of it kept spitting the dummy and not letting me add anything more. I got to the end only to find that PayPal wanted a code and it went to my wife’s phone and … you guessed it…she was asleep. I will have to press confirm tomorrow.

I am actually having an earlyish night… till’ tomorrow peeps…

Tonight I got the Hill fort sort if finished, it was basically dry brushing everything again…

I got some more chariots done too as well as printing another pile of Romans…

Oh yes and while I remember whose idea was it to get a pair of kittens!

Today I got some more paint on my larger 2mm Hill Fort. I also got some paint on the legion sized base as a test run for Strength and Honour when it comes out…

Now I did purchase some new rules to try out. These are by Mini Wars TV and are called Age of Hannibal…

Joe and I had a look at them yesterday and we think they will work for our 2mm forces. We are going to base the miniatures on 30×40 mdf bases.

We are almost ready to make a start on the 6mm Italian Wars forces. We are just finalising our lists then an order will go into Irregular.

I was having a mooch in a box under the bed and I came across this lot…

It’s a pile of 6mm Irregular stuff in the background and some H&R WW2 stuff in the foreground.

Happy Blog Day to Me, Happy Blog Day to Me, Happy Blog Day to Me – eeee, Happy Blog Day to Me!

Yes I have made it to another Blog Birthday… I sort of cannot believe it, but this old piece of Internet bonkersness has been going for four years today…

In that time I have made 1468 posts, and had just under 10,000 visitors (okay 9890 to be exact)…Which is quite unbelievable too.

I am now on 752 days of daily blogging, so for the last two years I have bored you at least once a day, sometimes twice and on the odd occasions three times.

But I do want to say a big thank you to my regulars who have been great fun to be around and who have actually been a great support when the bumps jn the road appeared. Let’s not forget those people who popped by to see some toys and also to the people who just randomly drop by and leave a like, even though sometimes it seems like they dropped on my post by accident.

So where do I go from here, I don’t have a specific direction apart from keep adding to it, I am eventually going to run out of space, my 6gb of space is 75% full already. I should really stop the daily blogging, as it would allow me to go to bed at a sensible time and stop boring you all if nothing else. Problem is it has become a habit… plus I wouldn’t know what to do with the spare time… well apart from sleep.

I was going to show you some pictures of more printed stuff, but after a whole summer with a lack of midges, they have made up for it tonight. I have never, ever seen them so bad, so as the shed is about 15 metres away I thought sod it, the pictures can wait until tomorrow.

So once again a big thank you and I hope you will join me for the next four years on my journey with teeny, tiny army men.

Cheers,

Stephen

Tonight I nipped back to the Thursday club (Thule Gamers) and we had a bash at the Submarine Game…

We couldn’t get the torpedos to launch, this could have been for one of two reasons… A the software was glitching or B.. we were crap and were probably pointing in the wrong direction… place your bets. We then tried a board game of Casino Kings, I think it was.

Joe and I are backing the Sudan on Saturday, so look out for a game report after that.