This evening one of the lads at the club mentioned his pirate miniatures, we got chatting about out FIW project that never got off the ground. He put a photo up of his painted British Forces…
A nice little skirmish force
So I thought I would see what I had and what I still had to do… I do wonder about my common sense I really do… so this is my French force…
In the bag are 30 woodland tribes miniatures and Canadian militia and then I have another 30 painted Indian Forces too…so what do I do… think oooh I need some cavalry and possibly some Grenadiers…
I am seriously losing the plot… I really am!
Anyway the rules I fancy having a go with are these ones I bought a good while ago now.
Well the ol’ mojo has certainly fled the scene over the last few days, probably due to work related shenanigans as well as being ill last week, my kids are still not back to school full time as they are wrecked, me too!
So I have one more day at work and then two weeks of Freedom!!! Not that I am counting 😂.
Yesterday I found my Jimi Hendrix CD’s so put them in the car.On the way home from work I was singing along to them and ‘All Along the Watchtower’ came on. So that reminded me of Tour of Duty with the track playing as the helicopter hovered over the squad (which was removed when it went to DVD… Boooo! So when I got home I had a bit of a mooch… this was not a good idea….
We played a campaign using Tour of Darkness, but just avoided the weird wars stuff. So guess where I want to go back to now 🥴🙄🙄🙄. I still have the Pinnacle cardboard troops around somewhere so I could easily get going with very little outlay…. yeah right!
‘‘Twas a nice run home this evening with the sun going down over the Voe…
Yes, the lazy sod that I am, I decided to do nothing tonight. Okay that is not exactly true, I washed the dishes and made dinner (a very nice cottage pie). I then considered painting something when my middle child decided that then was a good time to ask fir help with her maths homework. After that quite frankly I couldn’t be bothered, so me being me started to mooch about and came across Museum Miniatures. Now I cannot actually remember when I got my last Army from them, it actually went the journey before I moved to Shetland.
So anyway Crusader Kingdoms is out for Lion Rampant, so me being me started looking at 15mm Crusader miniatures… you will be pleased to know that I actually resisted the urge to purchase any, however I was extremely tempted by the new range of ancient Greeks…
I then played Fallout 4 on the console….
I did take a nice photo on the way to work (well it looked better in reality than what my iPad could cope with…
I had a parent council meeting this evening so didn’t leave work until 20.50 so needless to say I am a bit pooped and seriously could not be bothered to do anything. I did rescue some miniatures of the print bed and cure them and the ones from this morning…
So here we have four of the Nazgul in their human form…
The one with the spear has a bit of a curl on the bottom of the shield as well as a bit of a bend on the end of the spear. I am not sure why this has happened, a similar thing happened to the Hero Forge shield too…
Well actually, the bottom of the shields were missing in both of the miniatures above.
I managed to get a bit more done on the Fellowship. Pretty much finished Gandalf and Boromir and made a start on Legolas and the Bree Guard.
As you can see I managed to get a bit more done on the cat too.
I spent some of this evening slicing some more miniatures. This month’s Patreon reward is the attack on Weathertop. With Aragorn wielding his two torches and a number of Nazgul, these are seen in their ‘human’ form as opposed to their black cloaks. I am doing the dismounted version of the one I reprinted the other day.
Tonight I had to get my daughter from town and then we have got a new family member who needed rescuing from the rest of the family (more later) but I did manage to get two lots of miniatures cleaned up and glued to their bases.
So we now have the full fellowship as we have Boromir, Merry and Pippin to the leftR, Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli to the right… and of course another couple of cats😂…
So today was the annual pony sale and we ended up with a new one. It was intentional, and not an accidental thing. So he is a little colt of only 6 months old and is rather cute…
Things went really well at the start as you can see, however he must have done something daft as the rest of the evening the other two chased him round the field. He eventually started to be allowed to get closer and he was by then giving all of the right signals so here’s hoping that tomorrow will be a better day for him.
He is Muness Magnum (from Unst) but he was called a small bean and the name Bean has stuck.. so we now have a colt called Bean.
This evening I got nothing done, apart from some more slicing of the fellowship and the cleaning up of the dark rider from yesterday.
Regarding him, this updated print is complete, I was going to spend ages make a rein and had for some plastic rod bent and glued on, but to be honest I was going to struggle to get it done as well as I would like and then I would dislike the miniature 🥴
The other miniature is my vampire from Mordheim. If I remember correctly he was a Blood Dragon. I went for my own Warband than the ready made one that they sold at the time. I purchased the necromancer and dregs separately and made up my zombies out of the plastic sprues. I will take some photos tomorrow. To be honest the metal miniatures really need an update so I might give them an ISO Bath this weekend to get the paint off them and start fresh.
Now last night I was bemoaning my inability to take any photos of the Northern Lights as I went to bed early. This is one of my ones from last year. The red glow is Mount doom (aka the flare off at Sullom Voe).
This was taken just outside the house, so as you can see I don’t have to travel too far to see them 😉.
Tonight I had a whole load of marking, so didn’t really get as much done as I would have wanted. On the up side my daughter helped out so that speeded things up greatly. Last night I set the printer away to do three miniatures. Gandalf, Frodo and Good ol’ Sam… they have come out rather nicely.
Please ignore the suspicious white powder (my cocaine as the kids are now calling it) it is however baking soda, as I couldn’t be bothered to wait for the superglue to set. I also printed the little cat on the centre base. The other miniatures are the ones I printed a few weeks ago and printed the bases yesterday.
I did start painting my Daimyo and retinue, but forgot to photograph it. And finally I gave an old miniature a right good clean and got the majority of the paint off it. He is one of the GW vampire knights from about 20 years ago. I thought it was time to give home a new paint job, I have considered redoing my Mordheim gangs. I have the rules and a large number of miniatures so was thinking it might actually be fun.
And finally, why is it when you go to bed early then things like this appear!
You will be pleased to hear that there have been no injuries, wounds or anything like that today.
I did a bit of slicing for the resin printer so that took up some time, especially when I messed up the thing and forgot to save it!
Anyway so I got s bit of green on the houses and stuck some tufts on a couple of the thatched roofs…
I also got a bit more done on the stone walled buildings…
These aren’t as nice as the 3DAlien world ones and will probably be replaced when they bring out some town buildings. I still need to get more shading done on the roofs. I did some but to be honest you cannot really see where I put it. The one thing that is missing is the gates for the stone walls. The only thing I can think of is that I popped them in with some buildings when the castle went off to its new owner… my thought process was that I could probably redo them on the printer… evidently I forgot!
I got a bit of bits put on this lot and started on replacing the reins on the horse…
And finally for this evening, Tom’s River Lady and a Hobbit Costermonger…
These have literally just come out of the curing station…. I am trying the wight prince overnight so we will see how it gets on. Should be ready when I awake in the morning 😉.
This evening I pretty much jumped around a fair bit from 6mm to 28 to tiles. But I got some decisions made and actually made progress.
First up, while hunting for some MDF bases I ate across a nice square base in hardboard that I had cut for a large Arabic tent for my 10mm Arabs, but it has now changed continents from Africa to Asia and will the base for my Samurai General.
As you can see, everything is merely blue tacked down to try it out. There are still four samurai guards to add to this. This will be for the main Daimyo. In game terms I will do up a standard size base to denote the same character in the fight.
The next thing I did was to get some spray paint onto the Hexon tiles….
There are still a whole load more in the box under the back lot. I will get these sprayed over the weekend. There are probably ninety all told, with more on the way.
Finally on the painting front…
Just the bases to do on these and then that is another half dozen finished.
I spent a good proportion of this evening looking for my 6mm cardboard ships as I wondered how big a 3D printed one was going to have to be, Lo and Behold I couldn’t find the bloody things anywhere! I got a pile printed onto card, but only ever made a couple of triremes (I think). they are from the Roman Seas range from Hotz Stuff.. I got mine from RPG now… https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/20290/Roman-Seas-The-Carthaginian-Navy-Set?manufacturers_id=506
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