Tonight was bit of a pain in terms of running about and picking up kids etc. This week at work is what can be best described as interesting. So all in all I was surprised that I managed to get my backside into gear and get anything done.
I decided to get some paint onto the cultists. My plan was to try a tan colour for the armour and I was pleased that the Aggro’s Dunes turned out to be exactly what was in my head. I found a spare Ork when I was in the shed yesterday and as he was already undercoated then I decided to Chuck some paint on him too…
I also got some bits and pieces done on the arm guard…
Tonight we worked on some of the metalwork on the armour as well as getting another coat of the green on. It will need some tidying up but progress is being made 👍.
You can just about see the paint I used…it is getting on a bit really, so useful for this task.
I was in the shed with my daughter looking for the above paint and decided to see where I was with my Hundred Years’ War French Infantry… I was a bit further forward than I thought, but whilst I was having a mooch I came across the Perry flags that they put into the box with their painting scheme and voila I now have a banner for my knight… I thought it looked pretty good and as there is red and blue on the bit that covers the flag pole it fitted in with the colours on the banner top…
Now t still needs a bit of trimming, but it has saved me an awful lot of work doing something by myself… so a win as far as I am concerned… for the more discerning of you, you will of course realise it is the banner of Saint Jude… if you are anything like me you will know it is because it said so on the page I got it from… interestingly St Jude is the patron saint of lost causes! Purely a coincidence I chose this one instead of St Thomas…I hope!
Yes it is now official…I hate yellow, this came about after repainting this back end of the horse about 4 times this evening and it is still no further forward. To be honest it is a big old bit of horse backside to contend with so the yellow Contrast was going to struggle.
I think it looks better than yesterday’s attempt…
I am going to leave it for a bit and see what I think. It definitely looks more yellow than the calf with scour colour that appeared yesterday. I really gave it a bloody good shake this evening. Option two is a coat of flash gits yellow (ordinary paint..or layer as GW call it) with the yellow Contrast over the top.
When I said I had ‘x’ amount to paint on the table, I forgot about this lot. Funnily enough, the scouts were going to be yellow… not any more! In fact I probably could have painted them in the time it has taken me to do a square inch of yellow cloth…
I am too tired to carry on tonight so I will bash on tomorrow.
Yeah, another evening of not very much, I really couldn’t be bothered at all. I managed to get a bit of work done on these two…
Okay, guess who forgot to photograph the second miniature! I really need to tidy up the mouth on her ladyship. Hopefully tomorrow will be more productive.
My ribs are still burning, so after doubling up all the meds I could take I managed to get some work done on the Genestealer cult miniatures…
Still a very long way to go, but they are a bit further on than they were. The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed a change to the jacket colour.
I got the dwarves flocked, they just need varnishing and probably some tufts put onto them…
And finally, I found an wood elf horse and tested it too… please note I do listen to advice and tried out the Dino mounts too. Of the three here I prefer the Trike’.
Tomorrow I hope to carry on with the cultists and Pendraken Mongols.
Was still feeling a bit ropey today so went looking for the box of 10mm stuff. I found it and sorted out some Mongols and also resprayed some Magister Dinosaur.
I found an important lesson whilst about to take a photo, don’t sit on the layer you have just removed or you will get the effect above! Luckily they just moved sections.
So in here we have mongol infantry an civilians, pretty much the same with the plains war Indians with the addition of mounted braves. bottom left corner is some Anglo Egyptian stuff. Enough to keep me busy for a while.
The above are my remaining Mongol cavalry and my MM dinosaurs.
Now I have a confession to make, I promised I wouldn’t get any new miniatures for a good old while and technically I haven’t apart from the special ones from Alternative Armies that I had been after for years. My problem is that they have been three kickstarters for 3D printed miniatures and terrain that I have backed.
Tonight I decided that I needed to do something with the dwarves so off I set and actually managed to get quite a long way…
Woah, how weird is that… I randomly painted a black beard on one miniature on each base to start with..on the whole random to me means extreme right back figure on the base.
Still a bit of a way to go, but a lot further forward than yesterday. I also managed to find Mrs Lady a mount to carry her about, now I may change this as I have a couple of horses without barding, but I will see what I think when I give her a new horse to sit on.
I managed to start thinking about colours on the cultists this evening and made a bit of a start. I also decided to use the same colour on various other bits and bobs lying about so some of the 10mm dwarves are in the same cloth 😉.
On the 1:1 scale stuff I have been a bit busier and managed to totally fix the gate as well as we managed to get pretty much all of the undercoat onto the conservatory. A number of months ago We took the dimensions of the building exterior and went into the paint shop and said hello good sir, please allow us to purchase the correct amount of extremely sticky adhesive undercoat and he took the aforementioned measurements and uttered the phrase… you shall need half a litre. So we left happy in the knowledge that we had enough. We since returned and said to the chap. What ho good sir, we were short, please sell us another half litre and we returneth to the job only to find that we ran out again!
To be fair there was more rattle can spraying going on than brushwork, but I have got a lot of miniatures varnished now as well as undercoated white.
I also messed about painting up some more of the knight as well as getting some colour onto the ladies and GW herald.
My Youngest did loads of jobs to allow him to purchase his own cook book. So all three of them made something. We had a three course meal with mocktails too (not to mention a cheese dip with tortilla chips for later on).
Tonight, I decided to look out my 10mm Dwarves I had knocking about.. well let me tell you why. I was just about to leave work today and Leon from Pendraken dropped me an email to say that as I hadn’t been on the forum for a while and as such my account was about to be automatically deleted. He said thought he had better just check to see whether I wanted it to be deleted, but also to check that I was okay and that no one had given me any grief on the forum. How about that for Customer service!
So here are my small dwarven force. As it is such a small force, I may be forced ( see what I did there) to get some more.
I also managed to get a hole drilled in the feet of the 1/35th scale stuff and get a wire superglued in. Once this had dried then I gave them a blast of white undercoat…
This weekend I hope to get the Genestealer cult minis sprayed as well as the small force of dwarves…
Bogenwald 