Tonight I managed a bit of painting on this fine fellow…

As you can see I also got the river maiden and hobbit stuck onto their bases too. I probably would have got further with the painting but I was slowed by having to wait for the undercoat to dry, to allow for new colours.

Whilst having an easy day yesterday Lucy and I had a go at Tiny Epic Dinosaurs which I got through a Kickstarter a couple of months ago. It took us a while to get going with it, but we got there in the end and actually both really enjoyed it. So much so that we want a rematch soon…

It is a worker placement game, and to be honest I have never bothered with them, but this one had dinosaurs so it had to be. I managed a win with ten points separating us.

I decided to have a bit of an easier day today jobs wise as I am still feeling a bit ropey. I think whatever I had the other week is still lurking somewhere. My kids have had the same and they have managed about two days in school in the last two weeks.

So anyway, onto the painting things bit…

I have pretty much got the Fellowship done. I am really considering giving a couple of them another go to see if I can get their facial features a bit less soft, but otherwise I am quite happy with them.

I also did another woolly rhino, once again I had a problem with the horns and one of the legs. So as the horns fell off I turned the large one around to make it slightly different.

I will see what the supported miniatures look like before I print any more of these. Finally I managed to get a bit of paint on the 6mm Samurai base seen in the top photo.

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Today I got a fair old bit done around the house. My wife needed an Ethernet cable put out into the shed and I managed to get one dug out there, I also washed dishes, made meals and was generally a busy bee…but to be honest it just about finished me off. I probably pushed myself a bit too much and paid the price of feeling wrecked.

I did however manage to get some painting done this evening, these are starting to look a bit more finished now

The other thing I did was to get the first of my Rampart Kickstarter minis printed…

Now unfortunately his horns detached and one of his legs thought about falling off, I reckon it is just getting too cold out there at the minute. I will have to build another insulation box to allow it to print when the temperature drops.

These are true 28mm miniatures so will look small compared to the other printed stuff I have. I sadly cannot get hold of all of my files as they were downloaded using a subscription zip program. I got a free month but now I want to print them I cannot actually unzip them which is a right pain in the arse to be honest. My own fault though as I should have unzipped them as soon as I got them.

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…

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…

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 😉.