Still down with the lurgey, but at least I can paint stuff.
4.05am varnish applied.
Bases started for the weapons earlier today.
I will hopefully get them finished this weekend.
Painting Para’s Rudely Interrupted
Working on the Americans. Base colours all just about done and the uniform wash applied. Next onto the highlights and washes for the rest. WW2 uniforms are so boring to paint after doing the Napoleonic uniforms. But as they say, a change is as good as a rest.
Sadly however I wasn’t feeling too good and shortly after this photo was taken I had to rush off to the bathroom as Spewmagedon occurred!
Yesterday was a bit more productive…. I repapered the kitchen.
Quite handy for reference when painting dry stone walls.
On the way home
Final leg of the journey home
I spy with my little eye something beginning with ‘S’.
Ten hours to go before we get into port.
Gaming plans when I get back.
Finish:
Airborne heavy weapons and 28mm werewolves
Make a start on any of my other stuff (too many to name here).
My little boy pinched some of my reading material.
He reckons the 40mm Tactical Grenade Launcher is the best for taking down xenomorphs.
Big Guns and Trundling Trams
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.
