This evening I managed to get the ghouls finished…. Well I think I have. I thought I had finished and then realised there was a skull on the base that was unpainted!
There are two distinct colours. This is because there are two units here. this allows me to work out who has lost what casualties in a game.
I started these in October 2022 so, it is about time I got them finished.
Probably goblins next…
Well I got my arse into gear tonight and finished the skeletons….
I am still in two minds whether to add rust to these or not. I didn’t on any of the other ones in the army so perhaps not.
In the same box as the skeletons I found a dozen ghouls … I might as well do these next…
I will keep you posted.
It was a bit of a long day today and I really could not be bothered with painting this evening. This is an edited post as the long one went on my other blog, sadly I couldn’t copy it across on the tablet.
Once I get going again with the Knights I will need to make my life a bit easier on the heraldry… definitely no comple quartering for me. The hardest I will attempt is a diamond pattern.
I decided that getting some ideas down on paper might help so voila…thank you Internet…
After a few days of swearing, mainly at WordPress, I eventually got the Jarlshof video done 🙂
I can bore you with it here
I decided to get the metalwork done on the Skeletons this evening.
I mainly went for an iron colour. The sword cross guards and leaders’s breastplate were done in bronze. I actually nearly did the whole lot bronze, but didn’t as I felt the swords didn’t look Bronze Age! I am happy to accept (or suspend belief) to allow for ambulant skeletons… but couldn’t bring myself to paint a fantasy sword the wrong colour!!! I need help, I really do 🙂
Tonight after fighting for an age to sort out the videos for the Jarlshof trip it turned out I wasn’t allowed to upload to WordPress. It seems like there is a limit of one. .. even though it said no videos allowed. There is a super simple fix though… send them £120 including VAT and all my video problems would disappear.
Fair enough, I thought and added my videos to YouTube. Now I get that WordPress is a company, but does it seriously make a difference if I fill up my 3gb with videos or photos. In my mind letting me fill it up with videos would mean I have to decide earlier to pay or not.
Yeah I know it is probably more complicated than that, but I am cross and not willing to cut them any slack.
This morning I was off to my Union Branch meeting. Well I thought I had better show willing as I have changed unions. I came home replaces a few more bits of floorboards and sliced some shields for the Knights.
After lunch my good lady and I hurtled off to the South end of the island to visit Jarlshof. This is a Historic Environment Scotland site. It shows that a settlement has been there since the Neolithic…some 4000 years.
The name Jarlshof was basically made up by Sir Walter Scott. He had visited Shetland around about 1814. His book ‘The Pirate’ has a location, which was basically the ruined 16th Century Manor house, which he named… you guessed it Jarlshof…the house of the Jarl.
In reality in 1814 the only bits to be seen was the ruin. In the late 1800’s a massive storm rolled in and eroded the sea front and voilà…dwellings appeared from under the sand.
On ‘Out and About in Shetland’ I am uploading a number of videos… they are taking FOR EVERRRR!
This evening I got the part painted foot soldiers finished…
Now with these I did cut a few corners. I didn’t bother doing every strap and piece of rope. But they are done and that is what I am wanting. I don’t think I have any other Gallian’s undercoated.
Tomorrow I think I will blast on with the Part finished skeletons i found when looking for my big Sharpie.
Tonight I got the two knights finished … well I still need to do a shield for each. But the bulk is done for this pair.
I also got a bit done on the foot soldiers…
These still have a whole load to do, but at least all of them have some paint on them.
I am going to have to print some shields, even though I said I wasn’t going to print anything new for a while… I need the shields to finish these.
Well keeping to my word I did more painting this evening…
As I splurged too much AP plate metal out I also hunted the shelves for anything that needed doing metallic.
This pair are nearly done, I still have at least a couple of knights like these to do, the Joan of Arc type as well as all the foot. Probably Goblins after that as they are undercoated.
So as you know a while a go I wrote a post about the kids in the Geek Club writing to companies that I have spent a lot of money in and they basically ignored the kids.
Anyway before the summer I wrote to The Army Painter on behalf of the kids. I got a nice email back saying I should apply for a sponsorship (I cannot remember the full name). It said give as many details as I could, which I did. Basically five kids in my little school club. It said on the form that they have loads of such requests and to be honest I really thought we were maybe a bit small.
After the summer break I got an email from Peder saying they were going to send us some paints and some brushes. They duly arrived and the kids loved them. Obviously as a teacher you never miss an opportunity to get kids writing. Today we got a lovely email from Peder thanking us for the lovely letters and addressed all of the kids by name. He even said he was sending us some more paint. So according to me and the Geek Club, Peder is a totally Top bloke and The Army Painter are a totally Top Company.
I just wanted to share a positive story…
I am really happy with the Speedpaints 2.0 and after getting the set for my birthday I am probably going to try the metallics and some other colours have caught my eye.
Here is my Speedpaint knight from a couple of weeks ago.
Bogenwald 