No painting tonight but we did get a bit of gaming in. The characters are attached to a trade caravan and are attempting to find the murderer of a ranger.
Here we have the caravan. All but the horses and a single figure are printed.
The attack of the wolves caused a bit of consternation with an elf fighting alongside a dwarf before it became fashionable in Middle Earth.
Okay the dwarf had gone into a beserk rage and had charged the nearest wolves, he happened to see them before he saw the elf. Luckily the dice was on the side of the elf as the dwarf charged off rather than turning his attention to Tauriel.
But will they catch the killer before they get to Bree, that is the question.
I might try a bit more highlighting on the red as you can’t really tell I did any!
Inspectors…just need basing up as tonight I varnished them…
There are a couple of cock ups on them which need sorting, the blue splodge on the green cup being a case in point. The lady also has a ring that needs some paint on it. Hopefully my mate will like them.
And finally the weird hand warriors…a bit of highlighting on them but otherwise nearly all done, well apart from the basing.
As for basing of the printed miniatures. They are on a flagstone style base, but to be honest I think I am just going to use the standard flock I have been using recently.
With one thing and another I only managed a bit on the cultists today…
It was mainly a bit of tidying up and getting some paint on the armoured one. I would have liked to have got more done but sadly today was a bit busy with going to the cinema to Watch Alita Battle Angel, which I thought was rather fab, even with a bit in the middle where I went ???
I then attempted to buy the weekly shop, it’s a bugger when the boat is off and panic buying sets in. No veg, no fruit and no bread. I managed to get the things for tea, my wife said she fancied bacon egg and chips the other day, luckily the shop had those bits in.
Tonight I was forced by my son to watch the Last Airbender with him. Perhaps if I was 8 I would have enjoyed it, but it was a chore. It was so bad I really fancied going off to paint some more 10mm elves.
Hopefully tomorrow I will get these finished and the inspectors based up.
Another Friday, another delve… this time 10mm cavemen
These are from ages ago. I started these for a Games Day in 2015. They are Magister Millitum. These were supplanted by the 10mm Eskimo from the same manufacturer.
They were bought for my mammoth hunting games, but I felt the others looked better as they had both spears and bows.
Well I have been promising my eldest a game of Scrabble for the last couple of days…
Not exactly the newest edition, I did manage to beat her even though I had a slow start.
I was quite proud of my personal best score of 75 and just now I realised I only got 45 points…. I had better tell her tomorrow. We were feeling quite proud until we realised we just scraped into the Good score.
I also managed a little more on the weird hand monsters…
This Month’s Azazel’s Challenge is a squad challenge.
Here is my work in Progress for at least one ‘squad’.
These are being painted up for my mate to be part of an up and coming RPG we will be playing.
Still a fair bit to go but getting there. Another view of the same lot…
The other potential ‘squad’ is this lot.
Some form of cultists from Ill Gotten Games. There is one of the cultists missing, I must have left him in the shed (we painted in the house tonight). These are from the Curse of Moht printed game. Do fantasy figures form squads? I don’t know to be honest, but either way I want them finished by the end of the month. In the background is one of the heroes he is seen in his urban and rural garb.
It was nice to sit down with my daughter again and do some painting together.
She has decided her rabbits are finished and she is now starting on a printed dwarf.
She would have got them based, but bedtime arrived, much to her annoyance!
I feel they definitely look different from the originals.
I also took a photo of the rear…
I added a crossbow to one and a coil of rope to the other.
Being evil parents that we are, we forced the kids of technology to do something creative, Lucy wanted to paint a figure, and so did James so off we went.
Lucy started her rabbits last year and decided to crack on and try and get them finished. James chose a chaos marine to practice on.
Lucy has started using washes and dry brushing. She was also really good at tidying up bits she had overpainted. Still a bit to go, but they were both very pleased with their results. Lucy has now asked for me to print her a dwarf too as that is what she wants to paint next. So tomorrow we return to the shed and get some painting done.
The other thing was my good mate from the North if England phoned up to say he had been watching Bolt Action YouTube vids and wished I was still down there so we could get a game in. It must be 25 years since we had last played a war game together.
Tonight was a totally can’t be arsed kind of an evening. I went off to paint a couple of my dwarves in the big shed. Outside temperature has dropped below minus so it was a little chilly. I put on my down riding jacket and the heater and waited until things warmed up. Whilst waiting for the paint to unfreeze (a slight exaggeration there). I played on the console and as you might have guessed, I achieved nothing.
Off into the bath and to while away the time, I watched the following
A channel called building Middle Earth. As I am into Tolkien I have been watching this channel for a little while, I do like his builds.
In this one he was building a Minis Tirith dwelling out of Hirst Blocks.
This was something I did about 10 years ago (by did read stopped doing). By the end I had around 20 Plus moulds, all imported from the states, I used to get a good deal… buy 4 get 1 free, plus he helped out on the taxes too. When I became rather skint I sold pretty much all of them on EBay and weirdly made more money than I paid for them. My eldest when she was a tot used to help me. She loved measuring out the spoonfuls of plaster. We got pretty slick at it by the end… if I left things for a while I would forget the ratio, so to remind me I stuck a label on the bottom of the cupboard shelf…
Yep it’s still there, in case I ever feel the urge to purchase Keramin again. The ratio above is not the recommended one from the package, but rather a trial and error system of getting the best results.
Anyway the moulds are long gone but the bricks remain. I must have thousands of the things, even after I gave a kilo or two away to the gaming club.
This is only one such box/bag/sweetie tin that contains various bits and bobs.
Although I don’t make things out of them any more, why?quite simply the weight – oh and time to cast enough blocks and then actually build something. Don’t get my wrong these are awesome, but I think I just ran out of steam. It didn’t help that the cost of getting the hard plaster up here was getting silly. A bag of Keramin cost £6 …postage to the uk was somewhere near £3 with an extra £6 to get to me.
They are handy for bits and pieces of ruins though…
I really should just bin them as in those 10 years I haven’t really used anything apart from some Egyptian statues. And truth be told I now have the printer. Okay it isn’t the same as building it yourself one brick at a time but the printed stuff does tend to bounce a bit easier and furthermore it is a twentieth of the weight.
When I say the moulds have all gone, that is not exactly right. I have one left… #75 the ruined Fieldstone mould. The other piece of Trivia is some of my moulded pieces supported my Wife in one of her International conferences. They made a pathway for people to follow (on a table – I didn’t make that many 😉). It went down quite well from what I remember.
Even though the Temperature here is chilly – spring is definitely on the way as the Oyster catchers are back and making a massive racket.
I managed the panzer 2 earlier. This is different from all of the others in that the tracks are separate to the hull and turret.
I have a couple of problems with this print. Firstly, the tracks don’t match. I seem to have printed a D and an F track! It gets worse…. one is the right track and the other is the left… so all in all a total bugger up! The problem now, is that I can’t change anything without the slicer on the laptop… So my MKII’s will have to wait until repairs are made.
I also printed off a 50% scaled house with stairs. I can now compare like for like.
First up the 60% one…
And now the 50% version…
I reckon I will stick with the 50% versions as to me they look better.
My plan is to print a few and make some hamlets, which can be joined to make a larger village.
And finally another Somua… I was so sad about the MKII
This shows it still with the support in situ…
I will get on with doing a test paint of one of the houses.
