The fire festival was a bit windy and wet last night. I did take a video, but the wind caused me problems with the sound.
You will have to put up with a photo of the light up.
I will try and sort out the video and put it on YouTube.
Tonight was the first of the fire festivals, so I iwas off gallivanting for a bit. I decided to do something useful when I came back. As I had found my leaf punch yesterday I decided on leaves!
I basically used a brown paper envelope and threw loads of dipping inks on it in random patterns.
The other side has more yellow and orange and less green.
I tried the punch out when the paint dried and if I say so myself they look rather good. Yeah I know I am meant to use real leaves, but it has been raining a lot, it was pitch black and the wind was up.
I will show examples tomorrow.
Or two in this case!
Yes I know Halloween was a good while ago, but I needed a nice simple project this evening!
In hindsight I wish I had done the pumpkins over three bases instead of two… but I didn’t! Once the basing gunk dries then I will see how effectively it has stuck to the base and stuck the pumpkins into it. Again I probably should have glued these to the base and then gunked around them.
Ahhh well, time will tell!
I will be adding patches of grass in places with some tufts and some maple leaves… sadly I don’t have any pumpkin leaves 🙂
Hopefully I will carry on tomorrow and let you know how I get on.
Well we have officially had gales for nine days straight. The average for January is seven days of gales, however they are not normally together at the start. To be fair in 1993 there were 19 days of Gales.
On the 5th January the MV Braer ran aground off Sumburgh and released 87,000 tonnes of crude oil. She was carrying twice the amount as the Exon Valdes. Therefore people feared the worst. By some stroke of luck. The storm that added to the accident also saved us. By all account’s the motion of the waves and wind emulsified the oil.
We did get oiled beaches, but not what was expected.
Friends who lived up here smelled the oil on the wind 50 odd miles away. They were out checking theirs and their neighbours fuel supplies as they thought they had developed a leak.
I remember watching things unfold on the evening news.
You may be pleased that I made it back home in one piece. Swell coming back was a mere 4.5 metre compared to the 7.5 metre going down.
The kids all came with me and had great fun in Aberdeen’s shops.
I was so buggered with being sick so much, not sleeping and not eating/ drinking I couldn’t be arsed to walk 5 minutes to a model shop.
When I got home everything ached. So after a quick drink I went and sat in bed and promptly fell asleep and woke up at 15.30.
I really couldn’t be arsed to pick up a brush this evening. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
That Was what can be described as a bastard of a run south!
If I offer you a bag… Don’t take one!
Brace for Bouncing
So I made it onto the boat and it is heading out two hours later due to the rough seas. It is now a 15 hour crossing instead of 12. We are missing out Orkney altogether.
Here I am being stoic!
Yes, the Flintloque miniatures are nearly done. I worked on them this evening again. Painted the base, did the rims, took the photo and then realised I had forgotten all the brass work on the rifle and pistols!
I will try and get it done during the day tomorrow.
I have a hospital appointment with a specialist on Thursday so it is a ferry trip down to Aberdeen tomorrow evening. I could have taken a flight, but this way it is cheaper for the old NHS… oh yeah and it means I get some time in Aberdeen.
I am going to see if I can find any model shops… not holding my breath as I haven’t been able to in the past.
Some painting! Yes indeed first day of new year and I painted. Okay totally forgot today was 1st January… so while I remember… I want to wish everyone health, wealth and happiness for the years ahead.
Here are the fruits of my labour so to speak…
I hadn’t really made many hobby plans for 2023, well apart from getting stuff painted and built. The one thing I did decide on was to give up printing for a bit, this is one thing I pretty much kept to. My new resin printer is still in the box and the only reason the FDM one was opened was to print my son a replica pipe pistol from Fallout.
So do I have any actual plans… not really. Try and people more should be a major one… hopefully that will come about.
As if I havent got enough to do! 😂
So after getting the Fallot RPG for Christmas I decided to dust off the game on the console… you know, for research purposes. I decided I didn’t want to just recreate the commonwealth around Boston in my games. Instead I decided to head North… Round about Chicago I thought…. so there I was following roads out of there and came across the town of Marengo… for some reason it is classed as a city, but with just over 7500 people, to me that is the same population as Lerwick.
Why Marengo… well it has a park, that has my surname. So many hours later I stopped ‘driving’ around on Google Maps.
Soo with a bit of Internet searching…. said family arrived I 1838, three years after the town was formed…. I fully intended to get some ideas down on paper…sadly never happened, I did however print off a few maps to help with the planning stage. Oh yeah… some of the houses would fit right into the Fallout aesthetic!
Bogenwald 