Well that is it, we are on the boat heading out of sight of Aberdeen, in fact it is pretty much lost in the haze.
We should be getting into Lerwick around 07.00 tomorrow.
It’s expected a one metre swell up to Orkney and then a one to two metre swell through the Fair Isle channel.
Well we got to Claymore super early and managed to have a good mooch about while people were setting up.
I got some shots of some of the games before the doors opened, meant to take more and totally forgot… too busy spending money or pondering whether or I should get something, in some cases my choice wad helped by someone else choosing before me.
I did consider Warlord’s ‘Epic’ Punic wars army. At one end Of the hall Warlord had it for £240 and at the other end of the hall N independent had it for £180… but only one of them. Luckily someone else got there first. I can do the wars in 2 and 6mm so didn’t need another set.
We also had a little participation game run by Warbases. It was a fun little Dungeon crawl…
The mdf tiles are pre coloured and they were for sale… I managed to stop myself buying them. The Miniatures were from Bifrost Miniatures.
I came away with a nice little haul, or should that be a medium sized haul!
I could have easily come back with a massive haul.
Once I get back I will show you what I got.
My son was especially chuffed as I persuaded him to keep visiting the Bring and Buy tables (people had their own this time). He managed to blag himself a pair of big GW Kinights for £50… saving a whopping £160! Up to that point he had been flagging a bit, but was perked up by his purchase.
All in all we were there about five hours. Six if you include pre opening.
Now I wasn’t there last year, but it did seem quieter than last time. Some of the traders thought the same too. Maybe the crowds had spent up at Carronade which by all accounts of said traders was rammed.
So we left the boat at 07.30 this morning and headed down to Dundee for Breakfast. Then off to ‘World of Wings’
We ended up heading over to Glasgow to IKEA as sadly the hotel is a bit of a dive and we didn’t fancy spending too long in it. I have now booked somewhere else for tomorrow ecening
Well I decided against scabbards and visors. Scabbards because I really couldn’t be bothered to faff about with them. The visors were because I had actually chosen a lot of the models with them already there.
So I really doubt I will be touching these until I get back from the show on Monday. I will need to pack and get sorted during the day, not to mention try to work out what I need to pick up…(not want- as they are very different lists).
To be honest I actually don’t know what i need apart from some more bases! Bloody expensive bases if that is all I buy.
Well the final six were built about twenty minutes ago. The six remaining heavies were armed with hand weapons. Well five were, the sixth is a banner bearer.
Now to be honest I am in a bit of a quandary, do I bother with the sword scabbard and visors or not…
Something to ponder before undercoating them all.
All twenty four of them…
I have been doing bits and pieces on my druid bust too.
The leaves have taken on a more autumnal hue than the previous iteration.
Should that be ‘plus de chevaliers français’? Anyway I made another six heavies this evening.
I am going to armour all of these horses with mail or plate armour. This will set them apart from the other lance wielding troops.
It will also allow them to mix in with others as they are all heavies. I will also look to add some visors in both raised and lowered positions.
Tomorrow I will hopefully complete the last half dozen. I won’t get much more than get them undercoated as I am heading South either my son to visit Claymore Wargames Show in Edinburgh.
We get the Ferry down on Thursday evening, spend Friday night in a hotel and then drive over to the show on Saturday morning, Hotel Saturday night then back up the road for the ferry on Sunday.
He wants to visit a GW shop as well as a Bird of Prey Centre whilst we are off gallivanting.
So my light mounted archers are ready to head off into enemy territory. The Chevauchée was a raid to spread destruction, pillage and generally cause a problem for the enemy population. The raiding force would be designed to demoralise as well as steal as much as they could.
Civilian infrastructure and the general population were the target of the Chevauchée. I am going to see what small farm animals I can find to hang from the saddles as well as sacks etc.
I also finished off one of my sci fi wasteland dudes as well as worked a bit more on the druid bust.
I was super busy this evening as well as the day so had no time to work on my knights. I therefore masking taped off his knight and did a white spray of the carapace.
We will have to use a Bush to paint the head white and again to paint the exhausts and weapon back to their original gun metal.
This time I am talking about posh dudes on horses. Yes my two boxes of mounted Agincourt knights arrived today. So after spraying the big mech knight I did a quick build of half a dozen heavies, as opposed to lights. My plan is for three heavy units and one light.
The one in the rear middle definitely has something odd going on with his visor. This came as a separate piece and maybe I have glued it on in the wrong spot, either that or I accidently moved it before the glue set it in place.
One thing I haven’t noticed with the Perry plastics is a lot of flash (apologies for the naff pic). All of the human sprues had some flash where tye plastic has squeezed between the two faces of the moulds.
Top left and bottom right are really obvious here. On the other spue the torso top right had a huge fan from the top of his helmet to the lower back.
I shall hopefully carry on with these tomorrow.
Ye God’s I am so glad I am nearly finished the desk. The conservatory was pushing 40°C today. I nearly gave up to be honest, but luckily I needed one more plank so needed to go into Lerwick. This gave me some respite.
I have got this far…
The tape is to hold on the semicircular profiled bit of dowel while the glue dries. This is there to avoid a hard front edge. The planks are still loose at the minute in case changes are required.
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