Bogenwald

I just want to start off by saying a big thank you to everyone for the kind words after our pretty rubbish day yesterday. I eventually managed to get him into my trailer today and got him taken away for burial. I really do have some amazing neighbours, those that helped yesterday and those today who loaned me a spare tyre for the trailer as well as a block and tackle. We shall not talk about the one that is the arsehole 🥴

Today proved a bit expensive as my trailer tyres were pretty shot and one had a slow puncture so after sorting out the pony I went to get new tyres. Unfortunately these had to come with wheels attached, but in reality I was going to order some new wheels anyway. Two wheels and a trailer board came to just under £200…ouch. I was going to try and get them on tomorrow, but it looks like the rain, sleet and general crappy ness are set in until Tuesday.

On the upside, I did manage to get a bit of painting done. I added the white and then went over it in yellow as well as painting a pile of snakes that came with the boxed set.

It now looks like there is a contrast between the red and the orange, which is what I wanted. Hopefully I can get these a bit further forward tomorrow.

Thanks once again.

I didn’t get anything painted today as unfortunately we have had a really, really crap day.

The kids and my good lady had been to the cinema and had come back. They went to put a rug on one of the ponies and found him stood in the stream as the tried to get him out he started to struggle and collapsed. My daughters had to hold his head out of the water while my wife ran to phone for help. Unfortunately I was in work interviewing for a vacant post. I only found out a couple of hours later.

Luckily a neighbour came to help and they got him out. We don’t actually have any blankets in the house any more as the kids ran to get everything thing could find to try and get him warm

Sadly he didn’t make it, as you can imagine everyone is a little distraught. The kids were absolute stars and did everything they could to help.

Tomorrow I will remove his remains and get him buried, not a thing I am looking forward to. We have had him over twenty years and all of the kids have started riding on him.

So here he is in happier times with my middle daughter aged about four.

As many of you know, I do like my 3D Printer. It is a useful weapon in my arsenal…or more likely a gadget I like playing with. However it is only to be used by me, the kids don’t get to play with it.

My middle daughter loves her arty/crafty bits and bobs so I thought I would get something that we could all use.

We have been having a play with it this evening. I thought the 3D Printer was tricky, this is a nightmare!

Like with the printer this will take a bit of getting used to, but I am sure in the end we will be making some awesome things.

The kids are off school tomorrow, but sadly I am not. I do have a long weekend coming up so will try to get a fair bit of painting done over the next few days.

So tonight I am sitting looking at the different versions of the bases. I have to come up with some form of decision about what my bases are going to look like. The dog very kindly removed herself from her bed, which meant that I can have a proper look at them in a better light.

The options are shown above. The Geek Gaming ones are nice and will be useful for making terrain etc but I really don’t think they will work for the lizard bases. That basically leaves the Serious Play ones.

I had a closer look at the mixed ones and I think it is going to go down to either one of them.

I am edging towards the darker one of the two on the left of the picture.

The real question now is do I mix up a big batch by throwing all of the green into the darker colour or do I do smaller batches??? Luckily I have three bags of the green so I can certainly add a lot. As I said I do like it so could probably use it for other things.

I am going to build the rest of the cold ones tonight and get them sprayed tomorrow morning. That will probably be the limit of my hobby work as I am learning to play bowls tomorrow afternoon (I have some indoor bowls equipment in the school and thought I might as well set up a club) and straight after that I have to head up to the North of the island for a leaving party for a friend, (colleague and manager too over the years). She is deserting me to take up a headship south and I really will miss her.

I have three of the cold ones built, so I reckon I will manage another five this evening. Wish me luck as I am absolutely buggered this evening.

No painting tonight, but I did have a productive evening nonetheless.

My order came from Geek Gaming today so I had a mooch at it. I ordered the woodland range as I am wanting stuff for my lizards.

They do look good, but seemed a little dark. My daughter and I decided to test them out on 2p’s

We had a fair few to try out, some were from Geek gaming and others were ones I had had for ages.

We had forest paths, forest floor and rugged fields from Geek gaming and unfortunately the other ones didn’t have names on them but they were from Serious Play.

This above is an overview of them… The following top two rows are from right to left

Rugged fields, forest floor then forest paths. The bottom three were us mixing them up a bit.

The first two on the left below are the Serious play ones. We then did a bit more mixing by adding some light green into the mix you can see the effect above.

We decided that the serious play mix was the best and we would do a bit of a bigger test. We haven’t decided on which to go for, but the green certainly added a bit more colour to the mix.