So I managed to get some more done on the Sisters of Sigmar this evening…
So this is them all. Going for a tan/brown to complement the red. Was actually a happy accident as I did the hair on the fourth from the right and really liked it.
Still lots to do, but making progress.
So I ran my little taster session today and ended up with sixteen children who came along. Twelve girls and four boys. I got my camera out to take a photo and then a crisis occurred so… no photo.
The kids seemed to enjoy themselves and were very keen to come back next term and try something more complicated. Because of the numbers I will have to split them into two groups
I ended up faffing about on the hard drive by downloading all of the orks and goblins from Highland Miniatures. By time I got this done I decided it was too late to start painting… edit… I decided I needed to paint something today so started on the Sisters…
As you can see, I have decided on red instead of the blue and cream I did last time. Funnily enough I am a lot happier with them at this stage than I was before!
Yes the printer worked with the ancient resin, well noy exactly ancient, but kept in the vat instead of the bottle.
I have twenty four of these little chaps for the kids to paint tomorrow.
I have them undercoated now and have a car full of paint, bases and flock.
Wish me luck, I actually haven’t got a clue when we are going to get them done tomorrow. We break up for the October break so will have to get them started and finished in one go.
Well it was absolutely my intention to get painting but I am going to run a Geek Club 2.0 in my new school. Off I set to print off some pumpkins for them to have a taster session. Sadly my flamin’ hard drive wouldn’t upen. Turns out it was a dodgy cable, thankfully I had a spare available. So a lot of wasted time occurred. I did manage to slice them and get the printer running. I took a bit of a risk with the resin left in the vat… I gave it a damn good stir… I will find out in 10 minutes if I should have dumped it.
Anyway, when I was out there I rescued this lot…
Eight archers and six can openers. I have the two already on the round bases so Eight of each. I also have the fantasyesque Jean D’arc too. The mounted version is already painted…
Hopefully painting will occur tomorrow!
Well I was trying to decide what to paint next. It was going to be the frog cavalry, with some potential human retinue miniatures, but the latter were in the bottom shed and needed putting on some bases. They then needed undercoating. In my attempt to find the bases then I came across these looking like this.
Therefore I think these will be next. I had them on a blue and cream livery before and for some reason I hated it…
So I resprayed… I now don’t like the skin tone as it is too dark, but you know what, I recon I can live with it.
So hopefully tomorrow I will come up with a colour I can be happy with.
Well this evening I went for a bit of a cop out and took a photo of the cavalry in their entirety…
This is the full twenty seven of them. If you remember, if I went off and bought half a dozen of the Perry horses then I could build another six, but to be honest I think I will leave them be for the time being.
So what next, we’ll to be honest my eyes were automatically drawn to this lot that were sat next to the druid bust…
I need to finish the frog riders to make a unit for Dragon Rampant. There are also the two chaps at the front… evidently because. I don’t know any better then I, for some reason printed another ten with pole arms and about the same with bows. I must have done it way back in June. Must be off my head. To be honest at the time, I wasn’t going to do any more but kind of fell down the rabbit hole of each knight needing a bit of a retinue! Luckily I stopped short of going for some mounted sergeants too.
I also want to do some Steppe and Coastal goblins too. Why? Because I always wanted a goblin army when I was playing the game lots. I did have a unit of forty night goblins complete with fanatics as well as chariots and wolf riders, but the force also included orks of various types.
That is the final six mounted knights done. So all twenty four are finished. Well when I say finished I will need to do add some white onto the horses round the legs and faces (still the penultimate half dozen to do too. I will need some form of banner for both sets too.
As you can see, these are all with horse armour. So a lot of metal paint for these. The more I have looked at these then the more I think the gilded helmets are going to he painted silver/gun metal.
Not sure where I am going next…
You will be amazed to hear that the printer hasn’t been on for months… in fact this is the last thing I did…
I reckon the last time I powered it up was 9th/10th July.
Well today I have managed to get the penultimate half dozen finished.
I am actually quite pleased that I don’t actually have six left. In fact I have five… if you remember I did an extra miniature when I did the mounted bowmen…
So here we have the remaining five… ready to go – so to speak…
I forgot to take my steroids today so am feeling a little wobbly right now. If I feel a bit less ropey later on then I will try and crack on with them.
I spent some time this evening working on another half dozen knights.
I did consider getting them completely finished, but got to the point of instant avoidance. This was rather foolish as pretty much it was down to the broze stirrups and bits at the mouth.
But they should be finished in about 20 minutes. Some white on the legs and faces of the horses will add to the effect.
On the downside I didn’t get them finished, on the upside I got them nearly finished 😉.
Well this evening was another try and chill one so I went for more painting of the knights.
I got this six to the touch up stage. This leaves a dozen. Half of them are on armoured horses.
Tomorrow I will try and progress another six. Not sure what to paint after these. I will have to sort out bases so they can fit into the movement trays. What I need to do is measure the originals and get in some MDF ones. Technically I could 3D print some, but really cannot be bothered.
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