Some day I may actually pick up a model or a brush, but it was not this day. We had a hiccup in our planning where my good lady was on a video call until gone 8, so I went and got my eldest from Drama. So we didn’t eat until gone 7.30 (chips) and then homework and revision and then Pass the Pigs….

Worst run of luck in my entire life in this game…

Yes, I achieved a grand total of Zero points, much to the hilarity of the rest of them! Stupid Game, I never liked it!

It was a nice sunrise this morning though….

So tonight was spent trying to find the charger for the laptop. It was eventually located in the shed, and no one knew how it managed to get there.

I then had a fight with 3D Builder to split the miniatures up. After a bit of a battle I began to win!

They are so tightly packed together it is difficult getting the slice in the correct place.

i did however manage to get them sorted

Well okay, maybe not hate it, but spent most of this evening helping my daughter study for a test tomorrow. Not only maths, but Biology and Chemistry too….

Therefore I was not really in the mood to do anything else this evening.

I have been a busy bee today and this evening. We have rearranged the kitchen, removing the counter I added in and replacing it with a table. The counter will be recycled and will end up in the conservatory.

This evening I was downloading STL’s for a mate who wants me to print some WW2 French cavalry for him. I tried to sort out some of the things I have too, not to mention trying to contact both Kickstarter and Patreon owners to work out how the heck to get my files.

I had a jolly good play on War Thunder too. Tested out my Christmas presents to make sure they are compatible with the PS4 and they are. So they are going away until Santa arrives.

Tonight I decided to get some more paint on the traveller from ‘the Printing Goes Ever On’ Patreon…

Now, having a look at him he seems to be going shiny like the rhino and wolves on the diorama. The difference between these and other ones is that these were undercoated with a brush then dry brushed white. Part of me is wondering if it is having an effect on the Contrast Paint. Either that or the Contrast is going a bit weird. Maybe it just needs a bloody good shake, more than I shake it normally I mean.

Not a huge amount achieved because I spent ages looking for his bag. In the end I took everything out of the box one by one and then returned them in the same manner, I then spent ten minutes hunting around on the floor, still nothing. Then at the point of believing that I had totally imagined Printing the thing, I turned around and there it was on the above tile on the windowsill. My daughter had moved it in case it got lost!

Tomorrow I am going to be moving the FDM printer in with the resin printer as it is warmer in the bottom shed.

Tonight we didn’t eat until gone 20.00 so by time I had a bath etc I mooched around looking at various miniatures that I have.

So I have a long list of unfinished projects, first off I must get This diorama actually finished and then get on with the various 6mm armies that I have, thence onto the 15mm stuff, then printed LOTR stuff, all in all I am going to be a busy bee over the next few months.

I never got anything painted this evening as I was downloading various Patreon and Kickstarter STL’s. Something I should have done a while ago as I have totally forgotten all of my passwords and in fact how to get hold of things… I have downloaded some more Neolithic stuff and will get some more as there are some nice hunting scenes available.

It was a lovely still morning today, so that meant a nice sunrise…

I did a smidge more work on him tonight, mainly going over the metallics again and then adding a wash to the gold, before adding highlights.

Hopefully I can get him finished tomorrow night.

Today my life has been full of vampires (or vampyres). I decided to paint one, my daughter decided to draw a comic featuring one and my audio book is the 5th Elephant and lady Margolotta has just made an appearance…

I have had this mini for years and he is my Vampire leader from Mordheim…

There is still a very long way to go, but I am getting there.

I really do fancy playing Mordheim again, I have plenty of fantasy miniatures and all of the rule books, so it should be easy enough to do. The only thing I don’t have much of is terrain. Definitely something to ponder over the winter.

This was shared with me today and is probably the reason why I decided to start painting a vampire.

I decided to do a little diorama with the seated character, I will need a corner of a tavern, I have some ideas, so we shall see where they take me.

On The Covid front, Shetland has now shut down our border, no one is allowed on or off the island unless it is for essential travel.