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Painting Para’s Rudely Interrupted

Working on the Americans. Base colours all just about done and the uniform wash applied. Next onto the highlights and washes for the rest. WW2 uniforms are so boring to paint after doing the Napoleonic uniforms. But as they say, a change is as good as a rest.

Sadly however I wasn’t feeling too good and shortly after this photo was taken I had to rush off to the bathroom as Spewmagedon occurred!

Yesterday was a bit more productive…. I repapered the kitchen.

Quite handy for reference when painting dry stone walls.

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On the way home

Final leg of the journey home

I spy with my little eye something beginning with ‘S’.

Ten hours to go before we get into port.

Gaming plans when I get back.

Finish:

Airborne heavy weapons and 28mm werewolves

Make a start on any of my other stuff (too many to name here).

My little boy pinched some of my reading material.

He reckons the 40mm Tactical Grenade Launcher is the best for taking down xenomorphs.

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Off on Vacation

To paraphrase the song from Bed-knobs and broomsticks

lovely, bobbing along

Bobbing along on the surface of the beautiful briny sea

What a chance to get a better peep

At the plants and creatures of the deep

Two hours into a 12 hour ferry crossing. Reading material is at hand…

Tomorrow is a 200 mile drive then a week of mooching around Northumberland.

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Mice in SPAAAACE…the final frontier

Well that’s them just about Finished.

A commander, squad of marines an a Heavy weapons squad.

These were quite a nice, fun set to paint up. If I had a criticism, it would be the mouse fur is a bit flat. Now a super artist would be able to paint the fur in, sadly I am not that man.

I could have painted up the flamethrower pipe a different colour (and still might) as I couldn’t think of a suitable colour.

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Random grumpiness and Starship Troopers

Sadly not Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip

This hobby is a bit weird I have decided. Well okay the hobby is okay, I think it is me that is the weird one.

A couple of months ago I decided I needed some Airbrush paint so I poddled off to Amazon. I needed to spend £20 for free delivery. 5 x17ml pots of paint came in a lot less than this so I ordered a DVD. Starship Troopers ‘Traitor of Mars” I really enjoyed it so I bought all DVD’s that I could. All three live action ones, two CGI animated ones and the the whole of the Roughnecks series. Great fun…

Next thing is I want to game Starship Troopers. My mate has bought me the role play game for my Birthday. Off I went to find something suitable….That is when I hit the problem. Mongoose no longer provide the minis, yeah you can get them on eBay, if you fancy taking on a second mortgage.

I have Aliens, Predators and Colonial Marines….. I have space Marines and Genestealers and other Tyranid nastiness….. can I find anything suitable in any easy and straightforward manner…..No.

Everything suitable I have found that would work in my mind is either in the states or are in 6/10mm. Rebel Minis or Khurasan would work. Lovely miniatures but the cost of getting them here is rather expensive before getting clobbered by VAT and import duties.

Some awesome ones in 6mm but 6mm is a bit teeny when role playing. Pendraken do a Big Jawed bug which would work with 15mm minis.

Alternative armies have some Flesharon troops in 15mm.

Problem with 15mm is that all of my suitable terrain or maps is for 28mm.

Why am I weird then. I seem to either get interested in something just as everyone else is getting out of it, or I get out of it just as it becomes popular with everyone else.

I am seriously now considering making the bugs as card ones and the troopers as minis. Might stop me grumbling about not being able to get what I want.

A quick edit…

Problem solved….ish… not quite sure how to make the bug 😱

I must get some minis painted tomorrow as I am off for a weeks vacation on Sunday night. Off back to my old stamping grounds in Northumberland. Sadly I haven’t got much painted of late as I have been attempting to get various jobs done as my mate is coming over to animal sit.

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Mice in space…now with colour

I gave these a base coat of white with the airbrush. Then, as they were going to be purple, I mixed up my own airbrush paint. This was a little scary as it was a first, but it seemed to work. I ended up doing a few coats to get a really deep purple.

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Mice in SPAAAAACE!

And now for something completely different…

I said I would paint these up for my mate. Not something you see every day… space Marine mice. They are to be similar to the Hawk Lords chapter…purple and Gold.

We shall see how I get on 😁

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A Rock Golem

I made my own rock Golem.

A big thank you to Jeremy over on Black Magic Crafts for the inspiration.

He is quite a big beasty as shown by the photo below. To the top of his head he stands about five inches tall.

Sadly I seem to have lost my photographs of the build.

Basically I cut out the torso and legs as one roughly humanoid shape. I then set to work hacking away with a knife to get a rocky looking shape. Feet were hot glued onto the front if the legs. The head was made out of a random offcut. Eyes and a mouth were cut into it, a couple of handy pebbles became the eyes.

The arms looked just plain wrong the same thickness as the torso so I cut them in half with my hot wire cutter. Small boulders were made using either a knife or hot wire cutter and then stuck to the body with PVA.

Once dried I added sand and grit to various parts of the model, when dried I blasted it with watered down PVA.

Painting was next with a mix of dark grey house paint and PVA. I then added a home made Black was, which was far too potent (too much black ink). Once dried I dry brushed up through lighter shades.

Various bits of foliage were added once the paint had dried.

The one thing I intend to do is paint the eyes a different colour. Next time I would round of the hands a bit more and maybe add a club.

Below you can see him in his natural habitat.

A couple more random photos: