At last they are finished, to be fair, I could have pushed on a bit more at times and got them done, but I didn’t so we are where we are.
They really just need a varnish and some of the sand knocking off the bottoms of the coats. I am rather pleased with these, they have turned out sort of how I envisaged them in my head. The one thing I am really happy with is the walker camouflage. So I am going to have. Few days away from 40k miniatures and carryon with some of my stuff.
I eventually got around to finishing my mounted squire. He seems to work with the others in the group. The only thing I am not so happy about is the horse tack. It is a bit too bright for my liking. It may get repainted sometime.
Tonight I got all of the insignia done on the Valhallan’s. I probably spent more time shaking the paint than I did painting the, but hey ho…
I will probably see some stuff that needs doing as I move forwards, but they are certainly near the end of the journey now. They will be based with the same sand as the walker…
I also got some pant onto the wizard and foot soldier…
Not the most productive evening, but at least I managed something.
Tonight I speed painted details on various miniatures, the blankets on the Valhallan’s have all had their straps painted, the officer has had his medal ribbons done too. Really just the insignia to do and then basing and hopefully they will be done.
I also slapped the paint on various Alternative Armies miniatures as well as the plastic Warhammer Quest wizard.
I was messing around with various bits of blue-tack today and ended up making a rather funky planet…
So tonight it was a bit like a Barry Manilow concert in here…
After two days of gales, on the nice calm day following, we have the power cut. Personally I reckon a starling sat on the power line and caused one of the damaged poles to give up the ghost.
Needless to say I didn’t try out painting by candle light, I mean I could have tried it, but chose discretion instead. I did however, get to fondle my new toys!
Evidently these are the instructions and painting reference!
So after a number of weeks of whiteness everywhere we awoke to pretty much this this morning…
I think I prefer the snow, the winds are up to to about 60mph, gusting higher, and at least is rain rather than snow. A bit miffed I never got my Valhallan’s photographed in their natural environment. Unst has warned that its roads are remaining closed due to severe drifting snow.
Okay to be fair it is about 40 miles away as the crow flies from my house to the centre of the island and indeed, when we were first up here we went for a day out to Unst and turned around due to drifting snow, which by time we got back to the ferry had totally disappeared.
It will soon be spring, except we don’t really have a proper spring, it’s more like winter, a few days of sort of spring then Summer. On the up side it there is still light in the sky gone 17.00 now.
Hopefully I will get more painting done this afternoon.
Now I am not a scientist, but who would have thought that not playing with the kids on the PS4 would actually mean there is more time to paint things…weird eh?
Anyway I actually managed to get a couple of things finished, upon saying that I reckon that I could do a bit more on each one…
I also got some more done on the bits and pieces from Warhammer Quest…
I made a good start on the missing Vox Caster, he needs his coat darkening to match in with the rest..
I must admit, I have found it difficult to get motivated of late, my painting table in the lounge is covered in random half painted miniatures, which probably isn’t helping.
I have got some more stuff from my mate to paint up, a unit of Space Marines and some Genestealer cult miniatures. I have said that I want to get some of my stuff done first…
I ended up looking at more miniatures today, but was pleased with myself that I didn’t buckle and hit the purchase button. I toyed with the idea of getting rid of my 15th Century Perry’s cavalry and replace them with the Agincourt ones. I needed some cavalry quick for Lion Rampant and that was all that I could get hold of at the time (plus the earlier ones weren’t even a thing). I could have purchased metal ones, but they worked out as double the cost of the plastic’s.
The one thing I am really considering is the ACW ironclads, not sure why, but it is an itch that is getting itchier. Stupid thing is I have no real interest in ACW, I can pick some up cheap enough for the printer, but to be honest, it would be another pile of STL’s sitting there on the external hard drive.
Yes we are still in the grip of winter here on Shetland, now some may think it is normal and although in other parts of the world on the same latitude we would be ice bound and having to fight off Polar Bears, we are lucky that the Gulf Stream passes close by and keeps us relatively warm. However every so often we get a decided chilly snap, and we certainly have one now. This morning at 07.30 we were down to -10 C and at 09.00 a mere -5C. The last time it was this cold was 10 years ago when my son was born. It was so bad then that the health visitor couldn’t get to see my wife for two weeks… on the up side it is nice in the snow…
Not a bad morning to walk up the track to get to the car…Looking across the frozen loch…this is tidal. Not a bad view from the local shop though…
Tonight when we went to do the horse, a blizzard set in, luckily the yard’s owner brought him in so we could head back home…
It’s windy and snowy… I hope I don’t need to go out tomorrow!
So after I got back in I did a bit more in the flag… still a long way to go, but on the way…
Tonight we played games with the kids until quite late so I never really got anything done. I did manage to get another layer of the grey-blue on the flag as well as tidy up the white bits, the red centre will have a gold skull in the centre with the usual battle honours (wish me luck on that one!) it will have gold and silver on it too as befits a regimental standard.
Tonight I got a smidge done on things, not a huge amount but at least some progress was made. To be honest I couldn’t be bothered, but forced myself to do something.
I never got anything painted this evening as I was busy reading my new books. I have been waiting for the first one for an exceptionally long time. I. missed it first time around and never saw it again on anywhere, but the other day two popped up on EBay so I blagged them both. One for me and one for my mate. £15 well spent…
Duel allows you to play a character from one of the Elvish forces in Valon. Duels are for personal and regimental honour. I haven’t really looked at it properly, but I did enjoy reading the background fluff.
The second book was my kickstarter from long ago, it got sent on 18th December but sadly all of the ones sent that day disappeared. Luckily I was able to obtain a replacement and it came today too…
I do like making terrain and have some ideas for a new diorama. I will show you the end results when it appears.
I have found another series that I like… Snow Piercer… basically post apocalyptic daftness, set aboard a perpetual motion train that is 1000 cars long. I have pretty much binge watched the whole of the first series and am onto the second. This came about by me choosing something new or different to watch on Netflix.
Bogenwald 