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Multi Coloured Big Beasty

Today I did indeed manage to get some more done on the Theropod. Not as much as I would have liked, but some progress is still progress.

I decided to add a contrast stripe between the blue and yellow. It was originally going to be just red, but I decided to leave a white border and kind of liked it. Bottom line is…if I don’t like it I can repaint it. It still looks weird with all the other white showing, but once that has gone then I can make my decision as to keep it or not.

The black lines on the sail are for a bit of extra shading in the recesses. It is going to be dark blue, so I wanted them to be a darker in the recesses.

There are still some bits around the claws that need filling in. I decided to go for he claws, my original idea was a bone colour, but black seemed more suitable, plus this chap has them too!

He was going to be a mount for my hero, but he does seem a little underwhelming. I think I might have something a bit bigger and in a better pose. I will have to check.

I also managed to fire up the printer again today….

Here we have a double width demon gate and some Dwarven statues… I also managed to print some levers as well as some more packing crates.

I might see if I can find a suitable scary Beasty as a mount, if not Sleich will work out a bucket load cheaper…. Gw version £50.00 (to be fair with a rider) … I already have the rider, saddle and reins. I just need something to ride.

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Beasty with some Colour

I pretty much managed to spend all of today up, with a slight need for a lie down in the middle of the day.

So it looks like I am on the mend.

I managed to get this sprayed yesterday (or it might have been this morning) but anyway I started throwing paint onto it.

There is a mountain of tidying up to do, as well as some camouflage, but at least it is started. As you might have guessed, I didn’t do anything on the Wargs. The Good news is that my good lady has officially told me that I mustn’t over exert myself. So tomorrow shall be a lazy day painting miniatures. Huzzah!

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Big Lizard Beasty and the Greenstuff

Today was another home day. I managed most of the day on the sofa today. I did however manage to get the Greenstuff onto the base and into most of the cracks.

When this is dry, I will get it sprayed tomorrow.

I also managed to fire the printer up. I couldn’t be arsed to change cards so I went for something that was on the one in the machine.

This is the large dwarven door. It is the same width as the 3×3 tiles.

Now I am not sure why there is a small crack in the right had base but I will either just shove some superglue in or splat a bit of Greenstuff in there.

In my bed rest time I have been watching ‘The Vietnam War’ on Netflix. I am really enjoying enjoying it. I was well into gaming that period in the 80’s. Read and watched everything I could find at the time and I still found this interesting.

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Big Lizard Beastie

So today, sad to say, was another day pretty much in bed. I managed 40 minutes up and then felt pretty crap and crawled back into here and stayed put.

During the times when I was feeling less wobbly I started on the big Theropod thing.

I put the rider of Rohan in to give it a sense of scale.

I wasn’t exactly quick with this – it took nine hours to finish. To be fair I had to stop every so often.

Tomorrow I will get some Greenstuff onto the base to help strengthen the joint between the miniature and what it is glued to.

The one thing I did find, was that after I finished it, it seems to have no eyes…

The other thing I also need to do with the Greenstuff is to fill in some small gaps like the one on the snout.

Hopefully I will get it undercoated tomorrow.

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New Toys and a Day in Bed

Today, or at least the early part proved stressful. As some of you know, I am the principal of a small school. There is me and my support staff. I couldn’t make it in today. I contacted my line manager yesterday to find she was on leave. So I contacted her line manager to find he was off island. I eventually got confirmation of cover being in place at 09.45 this morning. Luckily I had a music teacher in until 10.00 as the member of staff walked in at 09.55. They couldn’t find a supply teacher so central service managers had to go in to deal with things.

I have pretty much spent all day in bed, slept for most of it. My Fitbit shows the difference, yesterday I managed 3700 steps (most of my teaching day yesterday was spent groaning and reminding the kids that I was unwell). Today I have managed 400 steps. My average daily total is 7500.

So on the upside a parcel arrived not long ago.

More toys!!!

There is the one Carnosaur (with options to make three different ones – I think… well there are three different instructions). If you go down one route you can use the rider to make a champion on foot.

Eight mounted ones & twelve warriors.

A nice little force . I think unit sizes are 5 plus mounted and ten plus warriors.

I am going to print some bits and pieces too…

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3341531

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3856028

I can also print the following at full scale to allow for some funky terrain.

I have these too:

Which will work great as they are.

So once I feel better I will make a start on the miniatures. I had better finish the Wargs and riders first.

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Sick Bed Blogging

So today I went to work (sorry John) just made it through the day and got back to find shiny things.

I took the photos but really couldn’t be arsed to actually have a proper look.

I backed this on Kickstarter a good while ago and totally forgot about it. So it was like a surprise present to myself 👍

Each player plays a goblin who has to go out into the Miremarsh to to get gold and compete to complete the various missions. The top minis are the various goblins and some nasty denizens of the swamp. Bottom is more nasties. To the right are some locations where you can buy upgrades (hence the need for gold) and finally on the left is the fen Lord .

The miniatures are lovely. I could have got various other bits and pieces but as with most things didn’t have the cash when needed.

So that is everyone in here feeling cack now. My Eldest came home from school today too.

Unclean, Unclean!

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Unclean, Unclean

Well I have just been out to paint a cross on the door as people in here are dropping like flies. Feeling a bit wobbly myself ☹️

Anyway I did manage to get some paint onto the Wargs and riders.

I remembered to do the bases edges brown this time as well as getting some bits and pieces painted on the riders too.

Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow night and I don’t come down with what the rest of them in here have/have had.

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Trying out the New Paint

With my good lady still feeling poorly (flu) I have been on horse and family taxi duty. Today whilst my daughter was in film club, I decided to have a look and see which Contrast paints might be handy. I used these to give me some ideas…

So I made a bit of a small list over a cup of tea and a rather dry scone then went hunting for the paints I felt Might be useful.

My mini list was thus.

Creed camo

Cygor brown

Darkoath flesh

Dark angels green

Apothecary white

Lo and behold, I found them all (which is extremely rare).

So I had a bit of a play with them this evening.

I will have a further play with them tomorrow…

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Meeple Dungeon Mega Print

Yey… I have the dungeon box printed…

This was the longest print I have ever done. 17 hours 45 minutes. But is is a very nice piece. There are a few bits on it that have a bit of weird under extrusion. The nearest gate has a couple of spots just to the left of the gate. They can just be about seen.

My plan is to print two of these as well as one top, which again doubles as a very large room.

The box is ideal for storing the pieces in, in fact it was designed that way.

I randomly shoved some tiles and minis in the spaces to take the photograph.

I decided to print off some of the Meeple trees too. I will print off the bases tomorrow.

Sadly I didn’t get anything painted as it was my ‘ex’ staff night out and my daughter had a shindig too. I just got in and took the photos. I want a cup of tea and then off to bed I go.

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Wargs… a Smidge Forward

Tonight I did their teeth and made a start on a couple of the rides of Rohan.

Most of the family is or has been unwell the last couple of days…hopefully it will avoid me.

I will possibly make a start on the ork riders tomorrow.

The temperature rose enough for the printer to start up again. I printed off some prison bits as well as a stocks and a brazier.

I am in the process of printing off the top of the dungeon box, it was meant to be the bottom, but I mixed them up. It should be ready tomorrow morning.