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On With the Resin

Today I managed to brave the wind that kept blowing the sticks off my board and got into the relative calm of the pony shed. As expected, the force of the spray can knocked a few over and a few off the board entirely. I did manage to get them done eventually…

When this evening came I managed to do a couple of test strips to see how they looked and to be honest I think this idea works.

I threw Gryph Charger grey on as a base coat, then, whilst still wet, I threw on spot colours of my brightest red, blue and green.

I did a bright colour test for one of the flag blocks, but to be honest, I think I will stick to the method above.

I had intended to get these plonked in behind the metals, but unfortunately, with the weather closing in – we are due force ten winds and heavy rain, we decided to get our old pony into the shed, which happened to be full of junk.

I will get the feathers and spear points painted tomorrow and then do a test shot to see what I think.

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Irregular Miniatures all Finished

Tonight I finished the last of my Irregular Miniatures order…namely the two loaded wagons….

This means that I am part way to finishing the Imperial Army… so since I started on I have done this lot…

We now have the small matter of hundreds of resin strips to do. Now technically they should be faster as I am meant to be flinging some muted colours on some of them and doing the sides and back a bit brighter. Now as I have never tried anything like this before then it might take a bit of trial and error which may slow things down a bit.

We are now having a gale, so spraying the resin miniatures tomorrow may not go ahead. I am now off to cover up my toys as it seems the big shed has sprung a few leaks!

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Remaining Cavalry

Well as expected, the Reiters were pretty easy to get done… by done please read, nearly done. I still need to do the saddles and spear points.

So the only metallic miniatures left to start are the two wagons below…

Tomorrow we are going to restart our Aliens RPG. So these will likely be done over the weekend.

The weather on Saturday is meant to be good so I should be able to get the resin pikes and arqubusiers undercoated.

On a different note, the bloody RCD tripped again just now… it cannot be in the conservatory as I took that cable out of the junction box.

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Jinetes Almost Done

I managed to crank my butt into gear and get some painting done this evening…

The jinetes are nearly done, they would have been finished, but some knacker decided to paint the bases, so that stopped me doing the final bits and pieces like weapons, spears and flesh.

I painted the horses for the Reiters, I went for two styles, dark bay and light bay to try and separate the two units, I was going to do two flag colours too. Luckily I didn’t as I just remembered now, whilst looking at the photo, in these rules the Reiters are in sixes and not threes like all the other cavalry. They should be easy enough to paint as they normally wore blackened armour.. easy peasy…

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Mounted Arqubusiers

Well this evening I did a but more digging and have narrowed down  the electricity problem to the conservatory.   It looks like one side of it has the fault…typically it is the side where I am going to have to remove walls and the ceiling.  But at least it is narrowed down a bit. This meant that I could light up the lounge again and in doing so light up my painting Space.

So here are the finished arqubusiers..

As with all of the bases so far, I still have to paint the edges. I haven’t decided on a colour yet, but I am thinking towards brown rather than black.

Finishing this lot means I have nine more cavalry bases to do… six Reiters and three Genitors. I also have two large wagons to do too. Once these are done I can make a start on the resin ones.

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Nothing Achieved

Well this evening has been ‘one of those’ ones, well pretty much today has. We woke up to a power cut, but on closer  inspection it turned out something had tripped the RCD. The power to half the house sockets was off. This included the Internet. I get to work to find my teacher couldn’t come in today,  she had let me know yesterday  that she wasn’t feeling too good.

I covered for her, so didn’t get my report for this evening’s parents meeting done. I came back home and checked behind all of the face plates on the sockets, in case a wire had come adrift or had become exposed, but nope, nothing.  I have removed all the plugs just in case, but nope it still keeps tripping. I am at a loss and will have to get someone in.

MS Teams decided to play silly buggers and wouldn’t let me in… I had go use my personal email address to join. Managing to get in 30 seconds before it started, still without a report. When I say without a report, I had things to say but normally have it written so that my admin doesn’t have to make notes.

A two hour meeting  took place with me in the dark and cold,using a 15m extension spool from the kitchen to allow the Internet to work.

So quite frankly I am not in the mood, not to mention that my painting table has no lights on it.

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Mounted Arqubusiers

Tonight I set to work on the mounted arqubusiers … I simply threw different coloured paint on the clothing to simulate the propensity for a gaudy look. Some of this will be covered by a metallic breast plate, or mail on at least one of them…

They don’t particularly look like much at the minute, but I am hoping that they will improve.

I have a parent meeting tomorrow evening so I won’t be home until late.

Here are the photos from my Norse Quarry Steatite

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Italian Wars… Progress

Tonight we had our friends over so I wasn’t expecting to get much done. I did manage to finish the knights and general’s…

I didn’t really have time to make a start on anything else, so as I had been showing them the 28mm Italian Wars too, then I thought I would make a short ten minute foray into doing them.

Alongside them are the remains of the metal cavalry. Two units of mounted arqubusiers, one or Reiters and a unit of Genitors. I have two metal wagons primed, with the base textured too, but that will be the metals all done when these are finished.

Hopefully tomorrow morning we are off to find a Viking Soapstone quarry. I will share the results tomorrow evening.

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More Knights

This evening I worked on these two units of knights. These are going to have different coloured pennants on their pointy sticks. A bit like they have different coloured plumes on their heads.

I would have got more done, but quite frankly my bum had gone to sleep, so I packed in for the evening. I got some more done on the two general bases too.

We got the news today that my son’s PCR test had come back negative so I was allowed to go and buy some milk.

I also brought in my next lot of printed pikes… somehow I managed to squeeze two of them together… in hindsight it might have made my printing job a bit easier if I had done something similar from the start.

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Imperial Knights

So another day of working from home has been and gone and still no PCR result, so it looks like tomorrow will be another day in house arrest. This evening however I managed to finish my knights and civilians as well as make a start on my general’s. Here we have said knights and civilians…

I know that them all having the same banner is probably historically inaccurate, but it does make them easier to recognise at a distance.

Hopefully I will get on with some more of these tomorrow