This evening I decided to mess around with the colours on the walker. I added a military green as well as some white to give it a snowy, foresty kind of a look…
I will add some black-green to the green bits too to darken them. I think it might actually look okay.
I am not so sure about the colours on these, but I am trying to follow the brief…
They still look a bit weird as there is a lot of white still visible. Once that disappears then I will be able to see what I think. The rest of them haven’t moved since yesterday.
Tonight I named to get some thinned Dow Contrast paint onto the Valhallan coats. It wasn’t a huge amount but with family things etc I didn’t really get much time.
The walker in the back is going to have white stripes of camouflage (I think). This is where the light tan is. Hopefully I will get back into the swing of things tomorrow.
Well, Ann set up aPainting Challenge for the first miniatures of 2021. These were started and finished in January. My original intention was pick something at Random, but my good mate Eric over in the states shared a picture of the GW Green Knight and as I had one already stripped I decided to join up with him and paint the same miniature. In the pot with the Knight was the herald and I had a dozen foot squires so I decided to do a trio. If truth be told so cannot actually remember which was finished first.
I had a few problems along the way with the Contrast paint going over the brush on whites I had. It wasn’t (going over the white) and that became the problem… it is really obvious in the photo below.
The lime green colour is exactly the same as the rest of the green to the left of it.
When I originally decided on a colour scheme it wasn’t going to be green at all, but all of my tests just looked naff so in the end the Green Knight became, in fact, green. Sadly his original shield and back banners disappeared long ago.
I am really pleased with how they came out. I did make a start on the mounted squire…you can just about see him in the background of the photo below.
To avoid issues with the brush on white I went for artist’s acrylic, but eventually went and bought a pot of GW White.
I managed nothing this evening, my daughter an I were expanding our domain on Ark so I decided to give things a miss, however now that I am writing this I may do something in a bit.
Exciting news from Shetland… you may have heard of the Loch Ness Monster, but have you heard of the Strom Loch Monster… I has photographic proof that it exists… see there he/she is rising through the ice.
It has been a bit chilly of late, and because of this our lochs have frozen over. This sadly has led to people trying to remove themselves from the Gene pool, by strolling out into the middle and one of them actually smacked the centre with a pole or something! Problem was that once people see one set of foot prints, they will follow. Thankfully two guys were down there tonight smashing up the ice where people can get onto the loch easily. If you look at the picture of the boat below you will see how easy it is to just walk onto the ice.
Spot the knacker’s on the loch. Depth there is about 5 metres. These were two adults who decided to explore the frozen wonderland.
Every loch on Shetland seems to have a tale of people going through the ice and dying, sadly some within living memory.
The sun was shining on the snow today so it gives a nice photogenic scene…
We normally have warmer winter temperatures, but for the last few weeks we have been cold, over the last week sometimes sitting at about 1*C and then dropping to below freezing over night. As you can see from yesterday’s 18.00 temperature it got cold again.
I got my test model finished this afternoon and sent a photo to my mate. He was happy with the look so tonight I made a start on the rest…
Here he is out in the snow like a true Valhhallan should…
Now there is nothing more annoying in batch painting ten models than to look up and realise that you have only done seven! Luckily I was only missing the trousers before I realised.
I will carry on with these this weekend and see how far I get…
So in a bid to broaden my film horizons I decided to watch something I hadn’t seen before. The first was Lucy, which although a bit weird I really enjoyed. The second was Maze Runners into the Scorch or something like that (made a lasting impression evidently). Now on this one I learned a very important lesson. Never start on the second film in the trilogy or you really won’t have a clue what the heck is going on, and finally I cheated a bit with this one as it was Crocodile Dundee. I haven’t seen it in I don’t know how many years. I loved it then and I still do now.
Some of of my AustralIan chums might have a different view of it, but I do like it. I remember watching a lot of films back then with Paul Hogan in. Evidently he did some tours in Australia. His TV Series would never, ever get on the telly now 😂.
Tonight I played with my daughter on Ark and then had some tank combat on War Thunder so I was quite pleased that I managed to actually do anything.
I lightened the coat a bit and also made the grey less blue. The test colours went down fine with my mate so once this one is done I will make a start on the rest.
Yes, today the postman drove his quad down my ice covered track to deliver my 2D6 Kickstarter samurai force, well technically Ikko Ikki.
I was very good and waited until I had sent a few emails and contacted a member of My staff before opening them….
Miniatures in the little box and resin buildings in the baggies.
So I was a bit surprised by the size of the little box and thought it was very light… so I opened them and had a mooch. Inside bubble wrap, inside a paper bag were these beauties…
They are really well detailed but as I looked at them I began to remember someone saying they were very small 6mm so I went and got my Baccus ones out to compare… and they are indeed teeny tiny in comparison…
By mistake I put the Baccus one in the box with the 2D6 one and was worried I would spend an age looking for them amongst the rest…..
Nope…Easy Peasy! They were so much bigger.
Anyway onto the resin houses, these are they type found in The mountainous regions of Japan. They have really high, steep sided roofs to help shed the winter snows. There are three houses that are the same and a little shrine. It was upon looking at these that I noticed another slight discrepancy regarding size…
That is the new stuff stood next to the doorways… not a biggy as they would work with 10mm too 😉. The Baccus ones would look better next to it. These are the original Mura miniatures ones that have been given a new lease of life by 2D6.
So anyway from being very excited about these I have been left feeling a little flat and a bit meh too. But no doubt once they are painted and based then they will be fine. They will become a force of diminutive monks and peasants who shall fight to keep their mountain home free from invaders (either that or they will sit in the box for five years (or 20 if my Irregular ones are anything to go by).
Today was about trying out some colours on the Valhhallan’s.
The coat will be a bit lighter and the blanket a different grey (I think) but the basic colours are how I envisage them to be. Black boots are the order of the day too. You cannot see it but the canteen is green and the pouches leather brown. I will carry on with him tomorrow and see where we get to.
Well tonight I made progress but to be honest I wasn’t really happy with it…
They were all at this stage when I decided to call it a day on this way of doing it and got the white spray can out again.
I also decided to spray these three as I wasn’t happy with the brush on undercoat.
Tonight I do Seem to be unhappy with just about everything.
Today is a very sad day for the Uk as we have now lost 100000 people to Covid. This has come about by the total mismanagement of this Tory government. Now I am not saying deaths would not have occurred, but that bumbling Buffoon who blagged his way into number 10 needs to be taken out and publicly flogged. All that money to the Tory chums wasted on PPE that didn’t exist or was useless or whatever, failed track and trace, bribing people to eat out, I mean for fuck’s sake. Eat out in a fucking Pandemic, are they out of there tiny minds, That smarmy bastard had the audacity to stand up today and make a statesmanlike speech about how much we must value the NHS workers who gave their all, the same NHS heroes that he and his chums fucked over by not giving them the PPE they needed and then refused to give them a pay rise (while at the same time clapping for them). Sorry about the swearing people. Those of you who have followed my blog will know I don’t as a rule swear on it, but I am steaming… I am so angry today with what we have achieved, when he stated the uk was going to be number one, I really didn’t think it would mean in dead people.
I think I need to go and lie down in a darkened room, with chillout music playing. Hopefully a day off tomorrow will get me back in the right direction again.
After the angst of painting the Sisters of Battle these were an absolute pleasure to do. It might be that there were only four of them or maybe it was they were a bit chunkier or even that I needed a change, but whatever reason I really liked doing them.
They still need a couple of coats of varnish, but the painting is done. Because I had only a bit to do I also got some more done on the mounted squire as well as this lone werewolf…
I also had a jolly good look for another Chaos Knight to paint up, but sadly he was nowhere to be found, and in hindsight I actually think that he was already painted… in black armour, from what I remember. Anyway I had a rootle through the HeroQuest box to see what I could find and decided to have a go at these three. Sadly nowhere near the one painted years ago, but at least a similar style.
I will see what I can do with them when I get around to it 😂. I will get them undercoated tomorrow and then make a start on Wednesday.
I will get the Valhallan’s started tomorrow too. I will be using the brush on undercoat to get some of the undercoat back to white to allow for the Contrast paint.
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