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…
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…
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.
Tonight the Northern Lights were meant to be visible so I was outside getting hypothermia trying to spot them. There were more snow showers about which blocked the view North. The stars were quite multicoloured so I reckon there was something happening… lots of photos on Facebook. Living in the bottom of a valley can be a disadvantage…
I managed nothing this evening, my daughter an I were expanding our domain on Ark so I decided to give things a miss, however now that I am writing this I may do something in a bit.
Exciting news from Shetland… you may have heard of the Loch Ness Monster, but have you heard of the Strom Loch Monster… I has photographic proof that it exists… see there he/she is rising through the ice.
It has been a bit chilly of late, and because of this our lochs have frozen over. This sadly has led to people trying to remove themselves from the Gene pool, by strolling out into the middle and one of them actually smacked the centre with a pole or something! Problem was that once people see one set of foot prints, they will follow. Thankfully two guys were down there tonight smashing up the ice where people can get onto the loch easily. If you look at the picture of the boat below you will see how easy it is to just walk onto the ice.
Every loch on Shetland seems to have a tale of people going through the ice and dying, sadly some within living memory.
The sun was shining on the snow today so it gives a nice photogenic scene…
We normally have warmer winter temperatures, but for the last few weeks we have been cold, over the last week sometimes sitting at about 1*C and then dropping to below freezing over night. As you can see from yesterday’s 18.00 temperature it got cold again.
Well tonight I made progress but to be honest I wasn’t really happy with it…
They were all at this stage when I decided to call it a day on this way of doing it and got the white spray can out again.
I also decided to spray these three as I wasn’t happy with the brush on undercoat.
Tonight I do Seem to be unhappy with just about everything.
Today is a very sad day for the Uk as we have now lost 100000 people to Covid. This has come about by the total mismanagement of this Tory government. Now I am not saying deaths would not have occurred, but that bumbling Buffoon who blagged his way into number 10 needs to be taken out and publicly flogged. All that money to the Tory chums wasted on PPE that didn’t exist or was useless or whatever, failed track and trace, bribing people to eat out, I mean for fuck’s sake. Eat out in a fucking Pandemic, are they out of there tiny minds, That smarmy bastard had the audacity to stand up today and make a statesmanlike speech about how much we must value the NHS workers who gave their all, the same NHS heroes that he and his chums fucked over by not giving them the PPE they needed and then refused to give them a pay rise (while at the same time clapping for them). Sorry about the swearing people. Those of you who have followed my blog will know I don’t as a rule swear on it, but I am steaming… I am so angry today with what we have achieved, when he stated the uk was going to be number one, I really didn’t think it would mean in dead people.
I think I need to go and lie down in a darkened room, with chillout music playing. Hopefully a day off tomorrow will get me back in the right direction again.
Apologies once again for the massive rant.
Bogenwald 