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Look, Look…I painted something

So after my woeful last post regarding a lack of energy to paint anything, I got a second wind and got the gold paint out…

Gold is really difficult to photograph, I thought I had missed loads only to realise it was a reflection.

Still bucketloads to paint but a teeny bit of progress is progress.

I also returned home to find my new rules a bit wet. I can only blame myself, I left them lying and I left the undrunk cup of tea next to them. Obviously someone bumped something and said tea went splosh!

They are getting the toilet paper drying method…. here is hoping the TP doesn’t stick to the pages!

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Still No Painting Tonight

My daughter wanted to stay in town tonight and I foolishly decided to stay in too. Three hours sitting in a cafe again waiting for her… bored silly now and knackered to boot. Therefore there will be a very, very slim chance of me getting anything done when I get home. I still have an hour and a half to wait and my Ipad is down to 38%.

If I am lucky she will get bored and want to go home, I probably have more chance of completing the fey before bed!

I ran my one shot today, the party saved a merchant from a thuggish person who was extorting money. Offered to take his message to a brother in a town 100 miles away. Fought a skirmish with some n’er do wells and made it to their destination and delivered the message. The main role of this session was to get them learning the various systems and rolling lots of dice.

I think they enjoyed the game, well they said they wanted to come back next time and carry on.

I have once again decided that I live in a bit of a nice place. The following photo shows it isn’t a bad commute to work.

Speaking of work, I am back tomorrow ( booo) starting with two days of training…problem is I cannot remember what the heck I signed up for, hopefully I turn up in the right place and that they have a list of the different options and also who signed up for what!

Just in case no-one told you it today…

Hopefully tomorrow I can get some paint onto the fey…I shall leave you with a little conundrum… evidently I had an extra hour in bed this morning, which to me is a little pointless as I was asleep and didn’t notice the difference.

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No Painting Tonight

Well, as expected, I managed to paint nothing tonight.

I have been building a lean to greenhouse for my mother in law, then came back and turned straight around to get my daughter to her party. I just got back in and quite frankly can’t be arsed to paint anything.

As I was waiting I did some work on my RPG I will be running tomorrow.

Yes we are back off to middle earth. I put a Facebook post up on the club asking if anyone was interested… eight people put their names forward so I am likely going to be running two sessions to fit everyone in. Some people may not like the system whilst others do so I will have to see how many stay the course of the campaign.

The following photo was taken in a cafe, so it is a little washed out.

Tomorrow will be a one off to get people going (some people can’t make it this week) so we will begin proper next weekend.

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Fey… Further Work

I decided to push on with these tonight…

Still loads to do but definitely getting there. My biggest problem was that bits that needed painting couldn’t be because of things like the centaur armour and on of the sword arms of another. I decided to get these off…

One side came off fine, but the other snapped off 🤬. On the up side the beastmen don’t seem to have anything similar to get in the way.I moved away totally from the box art, for a Start bright orange hair just doesn’t say fey to me, it always make me think of dwarf slayers. I darkened down the hair with some Army Painter dark wash. I am a lot happier with this than just the Contrast Black yesterday.

Hopefully I will be able to get some more done tomorrow evening as life is more than likely going to get in the way as I have my eldest of to a friends house, I will be off visiting my mate and all sorts of shenanigans like that.

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Fey…Making a Start

So I decided to move away from tanks, goblins and samurai and give the new purchase a paint.

As per normal, I am experimenting with the contrast paint. I painted the flesh tones and made a start on the centaur body too. The Black isn’t exactly what I call black. It is what I would call grey, but over a white undercoat, it is probably going to come out grey.

All of the fey have some paint on them now, I will carry on tomorrow.

I will give the hair another blast if the black and see if that makes it closer to black. The lower bodies of the three on foot (or should that be hoof) will have similar colours to the centaur.

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Whoops, This happened!

There I was today minding my own business, killing time before popping in to see my mate and this happened…

This is one of the games played by a few people at the Sunday Club, which is Shetland Wargames club, the original Shetland club is called Thule Gamers. Anyway I digress.

This box was packed to the top with stuff…

There are eleven miniatures. One set, the dark colour, are a Beastman faction and the other, the green sprue, are a fey Force, part of a wild hunt type force.

The game needs special dice supplied as well as various cards, both miniature and also objective, ploy and upgrade. There are 102 cards, not to mention a whole host of tokens.

The figures themselves are lovely…

These are snap together and don’t require glue, we shall see how that pans out! If I had one criticism of these is that a couple of them are balanced on. Single point of contact. The centaur in the background, although in a superbly dynamic pose, is poised on its front hoof. The plastic itself feels a wee bit softer than some of the older plastics, but possibly it is because I am more used to Perry’s plastic miniatures and haven’t had a good look at the GW stuff in a good while.

Regarding GW, although never a total fan boy, I did have a fair bit of their stuff, then, as everybody knows, they went a bit weird and started doing weird shit regarding pricing and the like, this turned me off them to be honest. This is my first real foray back into the company (apart from their paint – which frankly dries up as soon as you open the pots). So fair play to them this box is a full game, yes you can buy lots of bits and bobs for it, but it is a game with both sides.

Still not super cheap, at £45, but there again not silly expensive. The amount of figures within is not daunting…eleven in total. The other thing GW has is their TV channel where they show you how to build the forces and also paint one of each type up.

I have sprayed the fey with white earlier and I will have a go at painting one tomorrow.

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Ugg and the Mammoth Clan

These things have sat in a semi finished state for about five years at least. I bought them from Magister Millitum for my open day Mammoth hunting game yonks ago. Part way through the build I changed my mind and got some Magister Inuit instead and used them. The plan was that I would have various clans. As it happened I just used one lot for the Games.

So here we have the mighty Ugg and the rest of his hunting party (minus the dogs).

Once again these were done in Contrast paint for speed. It took about an hour to get them from white to painted. I resprayed them white when I did the goblins the other day.

Once again I am back to the ‘what the heck do I cover the bases in’ conundrum.

The following photos show some games my kids and I played a while ago…based on the bottom photo I used some of the cavemen miniatures as fire starters in the game (I thought I was missing some). The Inuit can be seen taking on a Mammoth (the rearing Mammoth was converted from the standing ones. The baby Mammoth are 6mm irregular miniatures ones, the older ones are Pendraken and the rest of the fauna are Magister, apart from the mighty gorilla in the wood, he is a 54mm Britain’s zoo animal. Works really well as a King Kong substitute in 10mm.

Not sure what I am going to paint tomorrow 🤔

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Nasty Orkses all Finished

Tonight I decided to get these done and out of the way.

They need some kind of basing material on them but the proof if colour concept seems to work and I am happy with them. Once I get the Samurai done, I will get some more if these.

Apologies for the naff photo.

Popped in to see my mate today and he seemed a bit better than yesterday, still struggling with vocabulary, but looking better in himself.. other good news.. my wife got a tax rebate as she had paid too much plus, the insurance came back with an acceptable value for the wrecked car…phew!

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Nasty Orkses

Today I decided on a change of scale and genre…

I had based up a few 10mm orks from Pendraken and gave them a white bSe coat then set to work on them. I dithered about colour.. standard ork green or a More Tolkien style of colour… so I gave them both a try…

As you can probably guess by the photo above, the swarthy Tolkien version won.

so a quick spray later they are ready for their proper colour…

I got a bit of a scary phone call today, my mate had been admitted into hospital, he had gone in feeling crap and whilst there had a stroke. He has had a couple of minor ones of late and had been put on medication for diabetes. He thought the meds were making him feel poorly so went in to check…

He was able to talk to me to some extent, but has lost a lot of vocabulary.

Scary thing is, is that he is in his late forties.

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Thule Gamers Open Day

Well that is it over with for another year… the action with the tanks quite often place at very close range. Below we see part of the table set up

Anyway I got possed every game of the three I played.

In two cases I was destroyed on the first hit!

The Char B above finished off my MKIII then turned its attention on my MKII. If it had survived the honey was waiting to finish it off.

Things got up close and personal between these two, with the MKIII eventually coming off worse.

Other games were Bolt action…

Some Pod Racing action…

Some board games…

And some Magic the Gathering card games which I didn’t bother photographing.

We also had a ZTV game that never got off the ground as the organiser of that was also our meet and greeter.

It was a bit disappointing in terms of numbers, last year we must have had fifty plus people attending. This year was ten. Two of them were my children. In hindsight the middle weekend of the October half term (we get two up here) probably wasn’t the best, but for three weeks before we had the fiddle and accordion week with wool week (which sort of stretched to two) before that. The next few weekends are Halloween parties with our venue being booked out again. We decided there is no right time As whenever we choose is going to clash with something going on.

On the up side we met eight potential members for the club. Everyone was impressed by the 3D printed stuff and general terrain, Personally I was a bit miffed with the lack of consistent mat arrangements 😱.

Well now that I have finished painting tanks and making terrain I thought I had better paint something else…

Therefore I decided to paint some orks.

These are 10mm Pendraken. It is all I have of these, but I will give them a test paint and if I like them then I will get an army pack to fight my elves.