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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.

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Wargs with Tongues

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.

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Wargs…Making a Start

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.

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Wargs Ready to Go

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.

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More Miniatures… Meeple Style

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.