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Gaming, Printing and Getting Wet

This evening we went off gallivanting into the Alien Universe again. The plucky trio were rescued by some androids who took them to an old research station, being the suspicious lot they were, they went exploring, the Androids didn’t seem to be bothered that they were wandering the old station. One of the NPC’s became unwell and ended up going into quarantine. Other rescued people were found…Russians so much waving of arms and drawing of ideas took place.. we left things when the unwell NPC went missing… someone in Weyland had given him an injection with a synthetic pathogen in it…He is now loose in a deserted underwater lab, that is partially flooded…. oh and the air scrubbers aren’t really working…

So when I got back I checked on the next lot of printees… I printed nine miniatures to add to the three from yesterday this would give me a unit of twelve…

Ooh look nine miniatures!

Looks like I will be reprinting s few more tomorrow!… i took a photo at 23.15…silly season is upon us again!

And finally… I signed up to be a head teacher to aid children in their education… having soaking wet underwear was not in the job description. A fire truck came today and they let the kids have a go at the hose jet… queue wet HT!

The last time I was this wet is when I went swimming,.. it was a weird wet though, basically half of my body was soaked, the other side was pretty much bone dry as children were in the way of the water… bottom line though was that the kids loved it.

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Reports and Printing

Thank Crunchie that tomorrow is Friday and that my reports are pretty much all written. Just some attendance data to add and then yippee…all done. Because I didn’t finish until 21.40 then I thought I would give the painting a miss and as I had the foresight to get the printer going I got a few more crossbowmen and four hand guns…it as is the way of things only 3 came out (along with some shortened swords – again)

As I mentioned yesterday, these fit in quite nicely with the Perry Miniatures… here is one of them beside some of the 14th century chappies…

Now I cannot remember if I added too many extra supports (apart from to the feet) but it would seem that two different people did the supports here…

My foot supports are clearly visible on the right hand miniature. The rest were super thin, but seemed to work ok.

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A Bit More Painting

Tonight I was writing more reports so didn’t have a huge amount of time to paint anything. I carried on with the Samurai…

Now to be honest I am going down and dirty with these, I am not bothering about paint splash too much…I will have to fix some missing red and blue though. Next up is to repaint flesh, spears and sashimono white.

I got the crossbowmen cured and onto some bases.

You can really see where the swords failed on the two on the right. Other than that they are really nice miniatures. I stuck them next to some of the Perry Miniatures Hundred Years’ War French crossbowmen and they are about the same size as them.

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Starting on the Samurai

This evening I had some training and was meant to be writing more reports, but to be honest my head was mush so I printed some crossbows , had dinner and then decided to paint something.

As the Samurai were right in front of me – I started on them…

That is the first ninety six started. Although they are in single coloured armour I am changing hat colours to kind of add in some difference where I can. The pavaises were a nice easy paint… I wish everything was that easy!

Someone shared the following with me… I probably found it a bit too funny!

So here I am in the shed sorting out a print before bed… eight out of the nine printed… ooooh they are very nice 😍

These are straight out of the ISO wash and there are still some tiny supports on them. Unfortunately some of the swords didn’t print properly (along with the missing crossbowman). I want another four or five to make a unit of 12. I will probably pull the swordsman out and do four more crossbows.

All in all I am a very happy chappy!

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A Crap Evening

Or perhaps it should be an evening full of crap….

The toilet wouldn’t flush properly so I checked on the septic tank header… it wasn’t pleasant… this was about 40 minutes Hin!

So to cheer myself up (after rescuing a bird from up the chimney) I decided to print a few of the new miniatures….

I put them next to a Mordheim chappy for scale purposes.

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Sod All Achieved

Well as with most things, the best laid plans etc… I was going to do so much this evening and achieved none of it… I did however work for about five hours writing reports. I managed to get nowhere with the caravan wheel, the nut holding the brake drum on would not budge.

Anyway enough whining… we may all have seen this photo of the Normandy Landings…

Interestingly enough, the gentleman in the foreground is one Jimmy Leask a sapper in the Royal Engineer’s and was from Shetland. As I have said before I had the honour and privilege of interviewing a number of The gentlemen who were there 76 years ago today.

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An Easy Evening

Yes, absolutely nothing paint wise was achieved this evening. I sat in the bath, ate tea, prior to this I washed my horse, sadly I don’t have a big pond to throw him in, so it was a bucket, a hosepipe and a pair of rubber gloves. His tail was a bit of a mess so we did that first… I will let your imagination run as to why it was a mess, I luckily didn’t take any photos… but the following image is a pretty good example of the colour of the water in the bucket after the first wash!

Things did get gradually cleaner, after about the fifth bucketful. Sadly my trainers filled up with the overspill…so it was a squelchy drive home… come to think of it he flicked his tail while I was talking… it really didn’t taste beefy at all!

So here he is looking clean…

Hopefully I will get the Arbites based tomorrow evening. I am now on the lookout for a space trucker STL for my mates character.

Tomorrow I think I will start on this lot…

But to be honest, before that I have to get the wheel and drum off the caravan to see what the problem is with that as well as write a pile of school reports. I did some quasi shortlisting for my teacher’s job, I am working with another head teacher on Monday to do it together, but as there are four applicants and they all seem to meet the requirements then I might just interview them all. Last time we tried to get someone we had absolutely no interest.

Until tomorrow… I was going to add something else here, but am buggered if I can remember what it was.

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First Game in over a Year!

Gaming has restarted… huzzah! We decided to give the Aliens RPG a go.

So my eldest asked for it not to be too shooty, so waves of xenomorphs are a definite no, no. So after a bit of head scratching we started off On a space ship that had a ‘containment’ breach… after a bit of panicking, they managed to make it to the escape pods seconds before the ship exploded… they then hurtled towards a water planet, the retro rockets and parachutes failed to deploy so they came down hard, cracking a few seals… with the water flooding in they fought to open the door before they sank. Luckily with a bit of hurried searching they got some survival equipment and managed to deploy the life raft before the pod sank. I couldn’t think where I got the idea from and then it struck me….

Subnautica Rules!
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Arbites… Onto the Basing

Well I think these are just about done apart from the basing (and all of the bits I missed).

I still think I need to do something with the shields… I might mask off the miniature and spray the thing again. That way I will get a flat finish…. but here they are waiting to be based…

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Arbites…Almost There

Tonight I managed to get some more done on the Arbites, it was another late night getting in, but I did a bit and got them closer to being finished. All white has now hopefully disappeared!

The yellow on the shields still needs some work. I decided on a colour change so used brush on white paint… not the best look. I will add a glaze and see if that helps. I am considering black and yellow stripes on them, but I am still at the ‘hmmmm’ stage about it. It would be striking, but also a total pain in the backside to get right.

Metallic still to go, but definitely looking better now.