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.

Well sort of…

I was asked by my neighbour to help move some shuttering for a concrete pour. It is about 8 metres long and about 60cm high and weighs quite a bit, so after chucking that around in his garden, I couldn’t really be bothered to do that much. I did photograph the cavalry…

For some reason they were still sticky on the bottom, resin, or whatever it is isn’t a good idea when sticky so I gave them another blast on the curing station. This time they were upside down. I also rescued the 10mm ruins off the build plate as well as printed some more gauls … I think I have about 30,000 now 😀

This evening was all about tidying up my pile of crap that had built up around my painting station. There were failed 3D prints as well as ones that were too big or small. I basically couldn’t get moved for stuff… can you remember this lot from around about February… Still in the box on the left hand side of the station!

This is after 45 minutes of tidying….the miniatures on the left can be seen neatly tucked away in the first picture above… I really, really should finish them.

To be fair, some of the stuff on there is mid move or in the case of some of them, things I was going to do tonight.

My 2mm cavalry all came out fine last night. This evening I was printing a church for 10mm miniatures….

So that was a balls up… 10mm on the left, 6mm on the right… oh well it will come in handy for my 6mm WW2 stuff. I am hopefully printing the ruins at a sensible size!

I am going to find something to store the W.I.P stuff so that it isn’t just lying around everywhere. When I went for the station… (I cannot spell bureau) I bought some plywood to make boxes to go underneath it. This is still sitting in the shed uncut.. a little job to do sometime methinks.

I was mooching around in a box the other day and came across these things…

These originated in  the mid 70’s. I think I got mine in about 1980. My mate and I couldn’t afford the miniatures so got these instead.  I was just talking to Joe about these last week and as if by magic they appear. I actually managed to buy the rules this evening too. As was the fashion in the 70’s there are lots of tables and book keeping required, but for £4.00 I thought why not especially as the two army lists in the rules are Roman and Carthaginian.

I got mores slicing done this evening, this time I printed off a pile of light and heavy cavalry.

I painted some of the 2mm stuff too as well as added some sand to the hil, fort and 80×40 base. The base is a test run for the new rules that are coming out later this year.

As I type this the kittens are definitely having a mad half hour. They are chasing each other all over the place.

Most of this evening was spent shrinking and slicing various buildings for a pal of mine.

I spent a good old while shrinking and hollowing, then I found some interesting freebies on My Min Factory…

The doors on these are 8mm tall so not bad for 6mm, they will need a bit of a size increase To go with his 10mm forces.