Bogenwald

Or to be ore accurate, really small big cannons… yes I worked on the larger artillery pieces this evening and got a bit more done…

Not a huge amount of progress but I am slowly chipping away. I think I needed a break away from these for a little while as J was getting burned out… not really surprising as there were pikes as far as the eye could see…

I also added a bit more colour to my German Aether fleet….

They are getting closer to being finished. I am not too struck on the copper colour and will probably either shade it a bit or more likely repaint it in a brass colour… only problem is… I only have Army Painter Metallics and frankly they are crap.

Oh yeah while I remember, I came in this evening and went to pull the light cord and noticed it was wet in my porch, luckily for me I noticed… the roof must have sprung a leak in the apocalyptic rain we have had over the last couple of days. It decided to fill the light switch with water. Luckily past Stephen built in a switch to isolate it…. guess what I am up to tomorrow before more apocalyptic rain and wind arrives.

My son downloaded Battlefield V the other day and the opening is rather moving…

The Great War ended with a deafening Silence,

The World moved on…

And in the Silence, we forgot.

Lest we Forget!

This Lurgey is crap and it can just sod right off. I am absolutely fine unless I try and do something foolish like walk the 6 metres from the bedroom to the kitchen.

You will be pleased to know that I actually managed to get something done today. Yes I magnetised the guns on the Ironclads, okay I had to go and have a lie down afterwards, but I didn’t want you all to think that I was sitting on my arseall day, okay, to be fair that’s a pretty accurate description of my day…

I stuck them upright in the pots to prove they were magnetised.

To make sure he polarity was correct. I glued one into a gun then put another one on top of it. I then put superglue in the hole on the deck and then placed the gun in position. This was then slid sideways to leave the magnet in situ. I had a few false starts but got there in the end.

Still feeling crap, and wasn’t in work today. I won’t be there tomorrow either. I spent most of the day sat on the sofa under a blanket, but did manage to get some more bits sliced for Ironclads.

My magnets also came to allow for guns to be changed etc on the vessels.

This evening I have been mainly watching YouTube…right now I am onto Bob Ross….https://youtu.be/mT0RNrTDHkI

When I worked as an outdoor centre coach we would have the TV on in the common room. Sadly for the boss, his morning briefing would co-incide with the Joy of Painting. Poor chap never stood a chance.

The weather today was chappy and furthermore I have spent most if the day feeling cold and headachey. I blame my good lady for giving me the bleurgh. She has spent the last three days in and out of bed. I did manage to undercoat the guns and will hopefully get them started sometime soon…

I also re-found this chap…one if my original Necromunda gangs… I much prefer this style to the more modern version…

I have decided to repaint him and see how I get on. As I was considering repainting him I foolishly decided to see if I could get him some friends….error not at those prices I won’t!

And finally…. the German base coated Fleet next to the British one…

I am beginning to think that this Italian Wars stuff will take forever. I was working on the skirmishers and the laptop ran out of battery… so no flexible skirmishers this evening. I decided to just do them in their fours, but to make them with the flexible mix to give them a bit more strength.

This evening was a familygames evening so jot much happened on the painting front. I did manage to get the British vessels undercoated and base coated…

I got a spray can in town that looked the perfect colour…sadly it lied. Luckily I found a Dark Angels green from Army Painter that got the them to a more useable colour.

I must have dropped the Gunboat about three times whilst trying to spray it.

My tooth is better, but somehow I buggered my wrist… so no painting this evening. So instead I decided to make some 6mm skirmish units for the Imperial Army. After about an hour faffing about I packed in as I was getting absolutely nowhere.

My plan was to do a multi miniature irregular strip with four to half a dozen arqubusiers on it. Two of these would make a base worth.

It didn’t help that I was tired… I will retry making an irregular base in Meshmixer and then adding in the miniatures.

Tonight I managedto get the two bases finished. I used any spares to replace some of the earlier casualties…

I will get the artillery undercoated tomorrow and see about getting as much done this weekend as I can.

I also cured the ironclad bases…

Here they areall perched on the bases. I will, cure the other two tomorrow and get these undercoated with the 6mm stuff.

Regarding the toothache, imanated to getan emergency appointment. I am pleased to say that they let me keep it. Most people who have gone to the dentist lately have had their teeth whipped out. My gob does fell like I have been slapped a few times, but at least I can speak without whimpering now. Evidently my u finished root canal work had decided to give up the ghost and create a bit of excitement…