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.
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…
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.
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.
Yeah, not much got done this evening. My good lady was feeling unwell and with one thing and another I didn’t really get much done.
I did however throw some paint on a horse and also paint the tongues on the Wargs. Whilst looking closely at the horses I realised that some have their tongues sticking out. A bit weird but never mind.
As I said yesterday, today is a public holiday. I went for a run over to the Westside to see my sis and family and it was a really still day. Something nice after a month of on and off gales. Makes for nice reflections 😉.
Hopefully I will get some more things painted tomorrow.
I found Paul on Netflix, I spent most of this evening watching it instead of actually painting. One of my favourite films.
Talking of Netflix, I also watched the new (ish) Robocop. I found that I really liked it, which I wasn’t expecting. And finally my viewing included the first series of the Witcher… I enjoyed it but WTF, how confusing was it. To be fair I haven’t read the books or played the game, but it jumped backwards and forwards across what seemed like decades with no idea whether they were flashbacks, prequels or what… either that or the episodes were out of sync.
Hopefully season two when it arrives will make more sense.
Tonight I managed to get some paint slapped on the Wargs. I roughly followed the same colours as the last lot, but as they were in the shed I wasn’t the. It was a bit of guesswork, but who cares as they are animals and animals are vary rarely exactly the same colours…
There was no printing tonight as the printer decided that it was too cold in there to even give it a try. So instead I did a bit more slicing and did another tile with a pool of water in it. Hopefully I can print one off tomorrow. I really was hoping to make a start on the box for the Meeples but the lack of warmth let me down. Sadly the electric heater in there bought the farm and the gas one needs a cylinder. As it is a Shetland public holiday tomorrow(after what is seen as the main fire Festival today)there will be nothing open in Lerwick.
Yep the Wargs etc have spent the last 24 hours curing and I managed to do sod all…
Well that isn’t exactly true. I boxed up everything that I had painted before as well as sorting out my Meeples into a bigger box as I have rather a lot!
This isn’t all of it! I have printed off another couple of 3×3 rooms and will look at doing up some t junctions and l junctions as well as more water etc.
Hopefully tomorrow I will get something painted.
I was out playing some more Journeys in Middle Earth. Once again we won the mission through the skin of our teeth. It would have helped win sooner if we had noticed that we had missed a major objective. So we failed to catch the spy. My card draws were useless at times. At least twice I managed to get no successes at all even though I drew four cards. It would have helped if I had some bonus tokens, but sadly not!
I have sprayed the Wargs and about 4 riders of Rohan this evening. They are curing until to tomorrow evening.
Printer wise…
Some more heroes and villains.
Some are obvious others less so….second row, second in an elf fighter, extreme right is an undead liche.
First on the third row, a sea captain, or someone doing ‘greased Lightning’ dance moves. The last one on that row is a thief, but would also work as an assassin.
I printed off another floor tile and once again I managed to snap it at the first set of tiles…
The crack is inline with stairs and the tomb. Hopefully it will add a bit of strength.
I have a pile of plasticard and I think to avoid this happening again I will glue these onto the plasticard. It will stop them being double sided, but it will also stop them cracking during use.
Whilst looking for something totally different I found the box with the Wargs and Rohan cavalry in.
To be fair they have had a bit of bad luck.
I set about covering the gaps in the Wargs this evening. I found seven, but one of them has a leg missing. I got them as a job lot on Ebay about 10 years ago. The riders of Rohan are in a worst state than the Wargs. A lot of the spears and bows have snapped. I will see about getting some wire spears. The bows are going to be a bit more tricky. I have a pile of Minis Tirith stuff in the box too. I might be able to swap hands with attached bows. We shall just have to see how I get on.
Today there wasn’t too much printing…
So here we have the bookcases, barrels and bit of water. I haven’t cleaned anything up yet. I printed 4 bookcases, the four barrels and a 3 x 1 stream. The book cases took just over two hours to print, the barrels were 35 minutes with the water just under 50 minutes. There are a few more bits and pieces like the barrels etc that I want to print off, but mostly now it will be rooms and corridors. I have considered making some corridor junctions to speed laying things out. Once I am absolutely confident that the printer is running properly then I will sort out the box, which doubles as part of the dungeon.
Bogenwald 