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Another Night Off

Not again, I hear you cry, but this time I was doing Dad’s taxi and dinner making service… so I really didnt get sat down until gone 20.00. However I did have to sort out the trophy, so utvwzs undercoated and then I tried painting it with Army Painter Metallic Gold. 10 minutes of shaking like buggery and it still wasn’t mixed. So I tried a couple of coats, total and utter waste of time, so once it gad cured a bit then it was out with the shiny copper spray.

The second reason was that I was downloading my Aliens and Marines, sadly they were online as individual miniatures and it took forever to download them, so to calm everyone down, I thought I would share

Not a bad view I thought, this us taken as I saw it, no filters were used…

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Having a Night Off

Yes the Lazy bugger that I am,  I decided that tonight I was doing sod all. Well I didn’t get in until 19.30 and had toothache,  and had had ‘one of those days’ not sure why, as work wise things went fine…

These are still in exactly the same place and state of completion as yesterday.

Oh yeah, I did do something this evening (I just remembered). I sliced and am printing a pumpkin  trophy for the kids in school. On Friday we are having a Halloween party, as the usual one is cancelled. The best pumpkin gets a prize and the trophy.

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Bored, Bored, Bored

As you might have guessed, I am a little bored of this project… it honestly seems to be going on FOREVER…

Anyway I cracked on tonight and worked on another three sets of strips, getting them quite a long way on…

On the up side I do seem to be getting faster, I think. These need hats, feathers, Pike spikes and base to do. Hopefully I will get these done tomorrow and get a start on the next three set of strips.

Now these and the ones I finished yesterday seem a lot brighter than some of the earlier ones, but it might simply be that I have used different amounts of paint on the brush, I know that I am doing one at a time rather than spreading the same paint over a couple of models, the other possibility is that I have shaken the paint pots really hard over the last couple of days. For whatever reason, I really do like them.

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Three Bases Down

This evening I got another three bases put together…

I also made a start on another few bases worth…

Ye gods this project is beginning to drag a smidge. The under coated ones above are the mix of flexible and ordinary resin, so they should be a bit more resilient. I doubt they would take a direct hit from a filament reel, but to be honest I don’t know what would. From what I remember I can do six strips in four days, or something like that so this lot should be done by the weekend. I will then assess whether I need to do any more. Hopefully my bristle pikes and a few extra miniatures here and there will sort out the damaged ranks of the original set.

One day I might actually paint my cannons!

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Next!

I managed to get the next lot of miniatures undercoated today😊

At the back is my broom bristle pike undercoater . I drilled holes in a lump of 2×1 and dropped the bristles in.

I didn’t get any painting done this evening as I was catching up with my STL backlog that needed downloading.

Back to work tomorrow so trying for an early night.

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More Pikes Finished

Yes, tonight I worked on, and got finished, the next lot of pikes….

Which to be is a bit of a relief as I thought I was beginning to struggle with them after the PLA reel incident, I kind if lost motivation. Normally I would just go and do something else for a while but people have guessed a date so I fell it is July fair that I keep to some kind of schedule. I will get these based up tomorrow sometime, and hopefully undercoat some more.

Tonight we had a fun family game of Horrible Histories board/quiz game…

I thought I would give you a heads up to see my next Kickstarter…

I do have a bit of a caveat here that this is from my friends company, but I have asked him to fire me a small stl so that I can show you how things look printed…

And finally, I found a broom that didn’t have bright red, white, green or yellow bristles…

I would have preferred a tan colour, but this was all Lerwick could supply me with, that wasn’t one of the above colours.

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A Smidge More on the Pikes

Today We were off gallivanting to the North of the island to get my daughter some tropical fish as well as have a mooch around Eshaness. She is very excited as two of the female Guppies are Gravid, so her shoal of five may expand a little. As a result we were back a bit late, so I didn’t get that much done.

I did manage the metal and pike shafts. Hopefully I will manage to get some more done tomorrow…

Thank you to everyone who answered my why do we do it question. I did enjoy reading the answers.

If you need to scare the cats away from your garden then my accidental selfie should help… I was shooting into the sun and could see did all…

Luckily the wind was blowing onshore as those cliffs are jolly tall. It was quite cute that my son came to get me in case I fell off.

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No Painting …but a Question

Tonight I looked up and realised it was 11.30, so Jo painting this evening, but I thought I would pose a question… Why do we choose the periods that we do? What draws us to them?

I will start…well that was a bloody stupid thing to say! Unless you are psychic and answered me earlier … Doh!

Anyway some periods I play and why….

First off The French and Indian Wars, this was simply down to the book Last of the Mohican’s that I read as a kid and later on the film.

Colonial… films when I was a kid again… Zulu, Zulu Dawn, and the four feathers…I decided to game the Sudan due to the different troop types available.

WW2, basically that was the stuff I was bought as a child… ww2 20mm Airfix, I dont really play it anymore but still have my 6mm Wermacht forces, plus some Americans I was given by my mate.

Other’s in the past were Vietnam, mainly in part to the influx of films like Platoon etc and also the Magazine ‘Nam’. I really like the crusades and medieval gaming, but I think this comes from Cry Havoc and Outremer board games,not to forget Samurai Blades which probably got me into Samurai gaming. OthersI haven’t got a clue… like Aztec and Conquistadors… haven’t a clue. Some might have come from the clubs I was playing in, but that was so long ago I honestly cannot say.

So the question is, why do you choose to do what you do…

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The Pikes Get Some Colour

I have had a busy day today, but luckily was in the mood to get some painting done…

Here we have the five and a bit sticks worth of pike strips. These were already undercoated so I thought I might as well start with them. There are enough here for three bases … basically 120 pikes on the sticks  I need 40 per base… therefore three bases. I never got the rest undercoated today, which is a sod, as there is strong wind and hail forecast for tomorrow 🙄.