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Out of the Painting Doldrums?

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.

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Painting Twins and Triplets

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!

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Barkhoven – The Great Composer

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.

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New Reading Material

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.

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Ghost Bride

Yes eventually I got my finger out and picked up a paint brush and got the ghost bride up to the basing stage.

I think the ideas in my head transferred to the miniature. In fact I think it is an improvement on my own original one. For one thing I was a bit more adventurous in adding other colours.The red eyes are not evil in my mind… just the poor lass has been stood up at the alter and cried a great deal.

I painted this one in 2018

Funny I went green with my original and blue with the latest one.

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Next on the List

This evening I got a pile more Flintloque undercoated for my mate.

I will hopefully get then started ASAP. Probably start with the ghostly bride as it will be an easy win.

There are also some armed police officers from WestWind I think. They are Prussianesque. These are to join this lot…

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I Achieved Painting

Not the most grammatically accurate title ever, but flipping heck I got some paint on a miniature…

A down and dirty 25 minute (if that) paint job. Geek Club started again today and as our cupboard was a total mess I tidied that before starting my painting. Will it win any prizes, nope, but a finished miniature is a finished miniature.

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“I ATE’NT DEAD”

So says one of my favourite Terry Pratchett characters ‘Granny Weatherwax’.

So what have I been up to in my hiatus… sod all really. Well okay, I have discovered Fallout 76, as well as rebuilding in Fallout 4.

To be honest being knackered all the time hasn’t helped. I ended up back in the doctor’s yesterday because of it. So more blood tests are taking place next Tuesday, and a chest x-Ray sometime soon. Everyone is flummoxed as to what is wrong with me, including me. It could be a extension of the poly myalgia. The doctor is basically ruling out everything else. Thankfully we have the NHS, otherwise I would be skint.

So the bit of a bugger on the horizon is that the school will be closed in June and all of my staff and I will be redeployed elsewhere. Sadly, not together. Technically we are being mothballed, but….!

Funnily enough the doctor did wonder if there is a bit of a correlation between school closure and my poor health.

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Bits and Pieces

Tonight I decided to get the static grass put onto the Flintloque  bases for my mate. As that was a bit of a quick job I decided to punch out the Battle System stone walls that I have had sitting on my shelf for a couple of years

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New Reading Material

Well with the snow, wind before the snow, and then after the snow I am surprised these arrived this month let alone the same day. I got two letters from the hospital that were sent a week apart that arrived today too. The second one said that the appointment in the first letter had been moved back a week.