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Unclean, Unclean

Well I have decided to have a night off, as I am starting to feel a bit bleurgh. I think I have caught my daughter’s cold. I really hope not as she was floored for a week with hers. Luckily my lateral flow rest has come back negative.

I got the Aliens off the build plate and they are rather nice…

As it was very sunny here today I shoved them on the Windowsill to get some natural curing done.

I was thinking of spraying mine gun metal and then using the black Contrast Paint oder the top. Won’t that can happen is that it doesn’t work. If that is the case I will spray then black and highlight by dry brushing with blue.

If I do perk up then I am going to get some more done on my pikes…mi have got about a month before I need my army for our big Lion Rampant game.

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My Tiny Farm

Tonight I managed to get the 2mm farms just about finished.

This time the buildings are stuck down so there is no going back now. The only problem is, is that there aren’t enough buildings to make the town now…

I tried them out for size on the town base. The town base now has the church/temple on it as the rest are glued elsewhere. Luckily I have another set of thirteen printed and cured. The above still needs trees etc to make it a bit more interesting.

The other thing I managed to get done this evening was to slap some paint on some 28mm Pikemen…

Still a way to go, but they are getting there. Yo be honest a lot of each miniature still to do is armour.

I got a couple of aliens printed successfully last night. I will drop a photo of them tomorrow.

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Watching Paint Dry

I managed to get the sand covered in PVA this morning, so it was ready to paint this evening…

I got cracking with the bases painting the base green level with added brown for roads and building areas…

This photo was taken four hours ago and the paint is still wet… so I have indeed been watching paint dry this evening. I couldn’t be bothered to go and get a mixing tile so grabbed the next best thing…

Yes a good old Tesco Yeast extract lid was washed and available.

My Friend Carl pointed me in the direction of a new Kickstarter…and as I am running an Alien RPG … I just had to go and have a look…. we all know where this is going don’t we! Aliens

I am doing a freebie one this evening… five and a half hours… I am used to 50 minutes…. I am doing a couple, one for me and one for Carl. Freebie

I will find out tomorrow how well they have come out.

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Small Scale Agriculture

This evening I decided to crack on with my Roman farms and vineyards l decided to use what I had handy so they went on the 80 x 40 MDF that was in the house. My old CD’s were in the bottom shed and it was heaving it down.

So they don’t look like much now, but I am hoping with a bit of paint that they will look OK.

The vineyard in the foreground is wool wrapped around the base that is covered in Copydex… I had an assistant for the wool winding part…

Why is it when you do two or three test runs that work perfectly, when you add the glue it all goes to pot?

Tomorrow I will get these covered in watered down PVA to seal down the sand..if I am clever I will remember to do them jn the morning, ready for painting tomorrow evening.

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Small Scale Village

So tonight I eventually got my backside into gear and got some paint onto the 2mm Italian buildings. I don’t think they are going to look too bad to be honest. I was worried that they were going to look too modern, but now that I have seen them painted then I think they will be fine.

The big building will be a temple, the other two buildings will be a mancio or a government building. I have printed off a second set so that I can have lots of buildings… some will be made into a town and others into small farms with attached fields, vineyards and olive groves.

The cavalry ‘patrolling’ the streets give the idea of the size of them. These will need the doors painting, but otherwise they are done and ready to go on bases. I would have got some more done on things but my friend and I were trying to send each other the most annoying songs… I think I beat her.

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Triarii Make an Appearance

Yes the veterans have made a fashionably late appearance… probably due to trying to travel whilst kneeling

So after painting them and cutting them off their bases I tried them on the two base ideas from yesterday…

I am really finding that the velites are tricky to get off their supports. I have had to glue some of the above back together and to be honest some ended up lost on the floor.

Tomorrow I will do another six units red, then start on different scutum colours for different legions.

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2mm Consideration’s

Tonight I really got down to considering what the bases for the 2mm forces would look like. Now the ‘Age of Hannibal’ has various troop types so it would make sense to base them something like this…

Velites in the front, legionaries next and the soon to be painted Triarii at the back… the problem this makes is how many of these make a legion… to me this would be a cohort, so ten of these, which is quite a few… or I go three of these to make a legion.

It is easier with barbarians as they don’t have set formations or definitive unit sizes… so the Numidian light cavalry above is sitting at 500 men.

I also tried the Romans on the 80×40 base …

Some more Velites in the foreground and the line of Triarii at the back and Voila…a legion. Talking of a legion…

The rest of the evening revolved around getting the extra supports off this lot so that I can start painting them.

I am having a bit of trouble with the Velites falling apart when I take of the supports…this is something I will have to sort out.

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Out and About

Well there is no painting or anything tonight, i had a nice hike looking for Neolithic Archaeology today… you can read about it here…Neolithic Landscape

Gaming tomorrow night, but I may have time to get some more bits and bobs done.

I have got some ideas for making 2mm grape vines to go along with my Romanesque buildings. I might have a play in a minute and see how the idea works. They will not, however, look like this….

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Bits and Bobs…

Today I managed go get some more slicing and printing done. More Gauls have been added to the box. I also managed to shrink my 6mm Italian buildings down to fit the 2mm troops…

Here they are next to their larger cousins. I put a 2mm elephant in the foreground.

I am also printing more 2mm troops. This time with an oval shield.

I had a bit of a problem with a couple of the last 10mm buildings. The two on the left warped… probably a support failure.

Today I had to sort out the header tank for the septic tank. Luckily it wasn’t as bad as last time.

Tomorrow we are going up Ronas Hill… Shetland’s largest. We are off to look at a stone axe ‘factory’

Mind blowing fact… well it us to me… Iceland (the country, not the shop) is closer to Shetland than Yorkshire and Faroe is closer than Aberdeen…

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Nelly and the Elephants

Tonight I thoughti would crack on with the elephants. I managed to get them finished and I think they are rather cute…

This is them on an 80×40 base…here’s a different view of them…

If I base them on this size thenI am going to have light infantry in amongst them too. This wil stop the pesky Velites from scaring my pachyderms. These aren’t glued down yet, they are merely placed for effect. I have another eight without the howdah that aren’t in the photo.