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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 🙄.

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Pike Reinforcements

Tonight, I ended up starting late, so I decided to get my additional pikes put onto their lolly sticks ready for spraying…

This, with the additions of the ones already undercoated, will give me 24 sticks or 96 six miniature strips. This should give me enough for my replacements and also easily enough to round off the Tercio.

These new ones are the flexible/ordinary resin, so hopefully they should be a bit more harder to damage, however I reckon a reel dropped from a metre would pretty much knack anything it hit.

I hope to get these sprayed tomorrow and make a start onbtge undercoated ones too.

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Bottom, Willy, Bum and Pooh!!!!!

Evidently painted resin pikes aren’t jmpervious to having an empty PLA spool dropped on them from about a metre…

As you can see some miniatures have totally ceased to exist. One base needs the front row replacing. One is complete gone I think as all of the Pikes on the right have gone.

Now the other week I did start pondering on how to replace the pikes in the middle and rear. I was going to use the flexible mixed resin and make only pikes that could be glued in situ. Either individually or in a strip.

Ironically, it happened as I was tidying up my painting station to avoid things getting damaged. I had taken a surplus box of cosplay resources out and put it on a top shelf, dislodging the PLA spool!

What surprised me is that any survived at all.

I will shortly go an sit in a darkened room until the urge to swear loudly and continuously goes away!

Funnily enough I had already taken a photo for tonight’s blog. Evidently it is not a good idea to fix a 2p onto a bit of wood with Copydex as, although it holds well, it leaves a heck of a sticky mess behind when you remove the coin…

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Tercio Shot… oh and Pikes

This is evening I worked on some more strips for the Tercio. I managed to make another couple of bases with the pikes I started yesterday as well as getting four shot bases painted up too.

The arquebusiers still need some work on their weapons as well as the Burgundian cross for the colours. I set these ones in lines as they aren’t Skirmishes. They need some texture adding to their bases.

So if I stick with the half sized pike blocks then I only need another four bases worth, which to be honest, is a lot of pikes. I still have two guns and eleven bases of Skirmishers to do, not to forget another four bases of Tercio shot and two bases (at least) of swordsmen. Still a long way to go, but definitely over the hump now.