A nice day was had by all in Beamish
An interesting Iron pillbox
Not to mention sets of bullet damage, I would say it was from target practice, possibly post war.
Quarry Gardens
A nice day out at Belsay Hall
Off on Vacation
To paraphrase the song from Bed-knobs and broomsticks
lovely, bobbing along
Bobbing along on the surface of the beautiful briny sea
What a chance to get a better peep
At the plants and creatures of the deep
Two hours into a 12 hour ferry crossing. Reading material is at hand…
Tomorrow is a 200 mile drive then a week of mooching around Northumberland.
Mice in SPAAAACE…the final frontier
Well that’s them just about Finished.
A commander, squad of marines an a Heavy weapons squad.
These were quite a nice, fun set to paint up. If I had a criticism, it would be the mouse fur is a bit flat. Now a super artist would be able to paint the fur in, sadly I am not that man.
I could have painted up the flamethrower pipe a different colour (and still might) as I couldn’t think of a suitable colour.
Random grumpiness and Starship Troopers
Sadly not Sarah Brightman and Hot Gossip
This hobby is a bit weird I have decided. Well okay the hobby is okay, I think it is me that is the weird one.
A couple of months ago I decided I needed some Airbrush paint so I poddled off to Amazon. I needed to spend £20 for free delivery. 5 x17ml pots of paint came in a lot less than this so I ordered a DVD. Starship Troopers ‘Traitor of Mars” I really enjoyed it so I bought all DVD’s that I could. All three live action ones, two CGI animated ones and the the whole of the Roughnecks series. Great fun…
Next thing is I want to game Starship Troopers. My mate has bought me the role play game for my Birthday. Off I went to find something suitable….That is when I hit the problem. Mongoose no longer provide the minis, yeah you can get them on eBay, if you fancy taking on a second mortgage.
I have Aliens, Predators and Colonial Marines….. I have space Marines and Genestealers and other Tyranid nastiness….. can I find anything suitable in any easy and straightforward manner…..No.
Everything suitable I have found that would work in my mind is either in the states or are in 6/10mm. Rebel Minis or Khurasan would work. Lovely miniatures but the cost of getting them here is rather expensive before getting clobbered by VAT and import duties.
Some awesome ones in 6mm but 6mm is a bit teeny when role playing. Pendraken do a Big Jawed bug which would work with 15mm minis.
Alternative armies have some Flesharon troops in 15mm.
Problem with 15mm is that all of my suitable terrain or maps is for 28mm.
Why am I weird then. I seem to either get interested in something just as everyone else is getting out of it, or I get out of it just as it becomes popular with everyone else.
I am seriously now considering making the bugs as card ones and the troopers as minis. Might stop me grumbling about not being able to get what I want.
A quick edit…
Problem solved….ish… not quite sure how to make the bug 😱
I must get some minis painted tomorrow as I am off for a weeks vacation on Sunday night. Off back to my old stamping grounds in Northumberland. Sadly I haven’t got much painted of late as I have been attempting to get various jobs done as my mate is coming over to animal sit.
Mice in SPAAAACE
A bit brighter than before…
Still some tidying up to do. Also a dark line around the armour joints and between the weapons and the hands. A brown wash over the gold would help too.
It’s about 25 years since I painted space marines, so I am not sure how to go about it properly.
The Werewolves were peering out of their box in a sullen manner. They were making me feel guilty!
I will have to get on with them tomorrow 😱.
US Airborne heavy weapons
Now with added colour
I got a few coats of colour on these.
I was lucky to get a bit of help from a small boy, who wanted a go with the airbrush.
The colour of the uniform is not exactly right, as there wasn’t enough in the bottle I was given. The idea is to use this colour as a base coat and build up from there.
I will get on with the Space Mice and Werewolves tomorrow too…I hope.
Yanks without Tanks…
After the Tank success….
I have been asked to do some more minis. This time American Airborne heavy weapons.
To be honest I found these an absolute pain in the backside to put together. I reckon my spit would have bonded the pieces together better than my Super glue. It has now got me thinking, can super glue lose its superglueness. Well to be fair it does stick the objects to me and the table just not to each other.
Anyway there are two 81mm mortars and two 57mm AT guns.
I will hopefully get everything sprayed tomorrow evening.
On the upside evening at this time of year tends to last quite a long time. 23.15 and still daylight…it would be brighter but the cloud and general overcastness is making it a bit dim.
Mice in space…now with colour
I gave these a base coat of white with the airbrush. Then, as they were going to be purple, I mixed up my own airbrush paint. This was a little scary as it was a first, but it seemed to work. I ended up doing a few coats to get a really deep purple.
Mice in SPAAAAACE!
And now for something completely different…
I said I would paint these up for my mate. Not something you see every day… space Marine mice. They are to be similar to the Hawk Lords chapter…purple and Gold.
We shall see how I get on 😁
Bogenwald 