Well this evening I set about painting in the bridles and trappings white. A totally tedious job, but it is what I get when I am messy. Forgot to take a photo, which is a first!
You can see the mess I made in the photo above.
Now to be honest I am going to have to be strong and resolute and get these finished as Wargames Atkantic are bringing out 10mm plastic Samurai/Ashigaru boxes…
This evening I really couldn’t be bothered to do anything, so I said sod it and didn’t even attempt anything.
Well my new job started yesterday and I needed to get some painting done this evening too. So I decided on the remaining horses. Not many but enough to get all the long flowing bits done on the plastic horses.
Next up will be repainting some of the bridles etc white. Well, on ones that are going to be brighter colours.
This evening I blasted through the dark manes and tails on the horses.
I still have the lighter ones to do, eight of the plastics. Then I need to make a start on the metal ones.
I think so! She was very happy with her find on our evening walk!
Well when I was South I picked up the game for £12. This evening I decided to give it a try. The premise was cool. Third person Alien shooter, various missions co-op or single player.
Frankly, I was disappointed. Now it definitely isn’t Alien Isolation, this one is more of a shooter and for me it got boring very quickly. I persevered and got a fair old way through the first mission, managing to fire around a whopping 1500 rounds on the old pulse rifle. That in itself says it all… disclaimer… my accuracy wasn’t brilliant on the swarm levels!
I stopped using the pulse rifle and switched to my shotgun for those close encounters.
Basically the game is as follows:
The game contains four story campaigns with three missions each, and the player is accompanied by two allies who can be controlled by another player or by an AI. There are five levels of difficulty and twenty types of enemies, and weapon customization and character progression are present within the game.
The synthetic marines were quite interesting. Sadly there were some other synthetics in the game that reminded me of the Working Joe’s in Isolation. At least these ones fell over when shot.
I will play some more this weekend and see what I think. I basically got it for further ideas for my Aliens RPG.
Well this evening I decided to see what horses I had knocking about either online or on hard drives. This quick little job took longer than expected. I do think I will have something to make up another six heavy knights though.
On a totally different note, this is the view inside my new school…
I decided to pop in when it was empty.
Well OK… Twenty four shades of Horse.
So that is all of the Horse skin done, still the hooves and manes/tails to go. For some reason one of them has gone a bit blue. I will put a grey wash over it tomorrow and see if that helps.
The command section still needs to be undercoated.
I had a cunning plan yesterday, I still have enough knight parts for six more heavies. They just need horses. I can get six mounts as separate sprues from Perry Miniatures, but as I supported Wargames Atlantic think there are some suitable horses I could print….Time to head to the Computer!
This evening my son and I started off our film binge with ‘The Longest Day’. Whilst doing so I made a start on the French knights.
I did a clean up on the metal ones and as I suspected the centre one (La Hire) lost his sword. Well it was 90 degrees to the pommel, so no surprises there. Luckily I had an awful lot of spare arms knocking aound. He now has a plastic replacement.
I also got some paint slapped on some of the horses.
Not a lot, but it is a start.
Well as promised here is what I purchased whilst off gallivanting.
So left to right:
A couple of Victrix Roman Legionary sets (one advancing, the other attacking). These will be used against my celtic types. Yes I know, they should probably be late republican, but hey, this was my first reenactment period so I am biased.
Middle top four 1p movement trays that cost me 20p a shot. Some Game Forge spray paint to try out and some mdf casualty markers.
Top right- some Perry metals. The only mounted Hundred Years War command pack that was left (well that I could see anyway). This one has Jean D’Arc, La Hire and the B*stard of Orleans (Jean de Dunois). These really need a good clean up.
An ox cart suitable for the Romans and below that a 6-8mm ruined city block set. I have decided to get out my 6mm road wars stuff and try to get it all finished.
Part of me wishes I had picked up a set of Roman Auxiliaries, but these came in separate cavalry, spear armed and bow armed sets. It would have helped to have had smaller pack sizes. I could have got a Pack of light field artillery too. If I had have got the above then the Romans would have outnumbered the barbarians.
As I mentioned in Saturday’s post. I really could have spent a whole lot more money.
Tomorrow my Wife and two eldest head off on their trip. My son and I are going to binge watch as many war films as we can… starting with one of these: ‘The Guns of Navarrone’, ‘The Longest Day’, ‘The Battle of Britain’ or ‘Zulu’. Starting with the classics.
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