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.

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.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/digitaltaxidermy/trewell-common-fantasy-historical-english-village-stl-pack … This one got me as the guys were showing the buildings that they were making for the printer… I had actually gone on to do the following one…

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/iain-lovecraft/the-frost Ian’s stuff is gorgeous if you remember my pyramid I printed them that was from his Meso American range.

And finally, a bit of the mines of Moria, that isn’t… https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printinggoeseveron/mines-of-maznar-3d-printable-dandd-adventure . This one is from the guy I have a Patreon of. He is doing the lord of the rings miniature you will have seen on the blog

So that’s it purchase wise for the 3D printer for a while too. Let’s see if I can keep it up!

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…

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).

Needless to say we are all extremely stuffed.

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…

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…