Flippin’ heck I achieved more painting this evening and got the Spyre Gang up to the shiny gold decorations.
There is still stuff to do on these, well I want to do more on the, but if I wanted to I could call these done.
I am seriously thinking of just using my gold Sharpie to make them shiny 🪙🪙🪙🪙.
I may of course may change my mind 😉.
Or rather B17…
So evidently there is an Apple TV series on the go that depicts B17 crews and the nightmare of the daylight raids from 1943 onwards.
So as I was sorting out the computer the other day I came across this gem that I had almost forgotten about. When I was a lot younger I played this loads.
So the first mission was over France and I had light flack and fighters. I had three crew killed in flight and although I landed back in England it was upside down… Maximum Effort II and a new crew are required!
The AI caused me no end of trouble. Sometime it wouldn’t switch off or on for that matter. I will see if it is worth learning all the key bindings!
Well I made a start on a pair of the Erroish in Geek Club yesterday and managed to get them finished this evening. I also worked on the Spire big guy, and the other three for that matter
The big guy still needs the decoration done on his armour. I have decided to go for Gold as I feel this befits a super rich, nasty bully.
These are my pack beetles…
The saddles also had some failures, you can see an obvious one on the end of the front strap… Well actually it is a decorative border. But hey, either way it will get the Greenstuff remedy.
Hopefully I will feel up to a bit more of the same tomorrow.
Ignore the first paragraph to avoid my new medical woes 😁
Yes I am still limping along, literally limping as it feels like someone has installed a hot plate into each shoe and turned up the heat. Anyway enough of my whining. The one thing that really does help is actually gaming on the console, it takes my mind of things, sadly Painting doesn’t have the same effect, if it did I wouldn’t have anything kept to paint.
I did however print some new miniatures that I am a bit excited about…
The dude on the mount is one of the Erroish tribe. I have also printed off a few more foot miniatures as well as a giant beetle that they use as their transport. Well technically I have two as the first one lost a front leg in a printer issue. I am going to do a bit of Greenstuff repairs and see if I cannot do some form of new leg.
I do love the aesthetics of the Erroish. Desert nomads. These are by Print Minis their My Mini Factory page can be found Here.
I also spent some time printing off some props for someone’s CosPlay… guess the film!
It’s Geek Club tomorrow so hopefully I will get something painted in that.
So this evening I worked on my Spyre Hunters.
The dude on the left as you may have noticed is not futuristic hunter. He is a rat piper for my mate. He does have a tartan kilt, but to be honest I chose colours that were too dark so you cannot really see it.
I also added the big dude onto the newly printed base. I have also gone a bit daft and printed a couple of Desert gangers and some alien fauna. Well I didn’t just want to print a base on its own.
Well I actually managed to get a tiny bit of painting done this evening.
I went for the unbased one to begin with. He is going to have either red or yellow on the chest and knees.
The other two miniatures are for my youngest. These two were the ones that failed yesterday. I did a plate re level and it worked fine second time around.
Well I seem to be in a bit of painting hole at the minute. I really cannot be bothered to paint anything. This tiredness/pain thing is annoying in the extreme, so it makes motivation a bit hard.
However I found a set of miniatures that I am interested in actually painting. I remember having the full Spyre gang for Necromunda. I decided to try these from Print Miniatures.
For these I actually unboxed the new printer.
Because I am a pillock I stuck three of the miniatures onto the wrong bases, it really only affects the one on the extreme left. She is leaping at an extreme angle. If you notice there is one of them on cardboard. This is because his base failed on the printer. Hopefully this is simple teething problem… however I tried a new print for my youngest and it failed.
Well if Geek Club has one personal thing going for me, apart from the warm fuzzy feeling, then it forces me to sit down and paint for about forty minutes.
Today I managed three miniatures. Two adult males and another child.
I still need to get the bases done as well as sort out the belt buckles on the three males.
So the two males on the right and the girl in blue join the rest.
I really do enjoy painting a nice simple miniature!
Even though I am spending far too much time playing Fallout 76; I still managed to paint this pair this evening.
The collar was done with thr same light blue and it does make Barkhoven look like he has blue ears.
I cannot remember what the other one us, one of the civilian range from Alternative Armies, but as to the race… not a clue.
So this came in the post yesterday.
I love Bill Making stuff on YouTube. This is his game that is a collaboration with Apocrypha Now. I doubt I will actually build any of the bots within. I just felt it was a good way to support both channels.
Bogenwald 