Well this, whatever it is is back . I am hobbling around the house like an octogenarian with bad feet.
Needless to say this hasn’t exactly made me enamoured to the thought of painting anything. I have sliced the Huey and am printing it on the FDM printer to save pennies. If it is naff then I will do it on the resin one. This is where we are up to so far…
The above is showing a lot of supports, the Huey front end is starting to form.
On thé up side, dinner this evening was followed by cake!
Last night Carnage took place in Shetland. We got our first game of ‘Death Roads: All Stars)
The game uses cards to allow actions as well as having driver actions. Each time you get to do two. Eg you can change gear and lanes or something like change lanes and shoot. Each of these uses up handling anywhere from one to four points (well in my cards).
When everyone reaches zero on their handling then the round is over. You can drop below zero, then bad things happen. Skids, veering, fire or being stunned all can happen at once. Just before I exploded in a fireball I had two stun, two fire and a skid to deal with.
It was a fun game… but on the way back Joe and I were discussing it. We both had a feeling we were doing something wrong. We are going to have another game tonight to try and iron out the wrinkles
Well if you remember I was commenting on the fact that we had written to a load of companies to ask if they would be willing to support us. Of the nine letters sent, one, with sadness, said they couldn’t help. Which is absolutely fine, I am just pleased they replied.
However, the big news is… I wrote to Games Workshop and lo and behold they replied within the day. To cut a long story short they are sending me a school starter pack.
So a big shout out to them. The caveat is that it is their way to hook kids in. I recognise that and accept it. But at least they are supporting us.
So this evening I got my finger out and started painting. I pushed on with the Recon dude and female civilian…
Now I really needed to add in the light squiggles but I don’t think my eyes or brush control are up to it. Now one day, I may push on and give it a go but not today. You can see what it looks like below.
Yes I managed to get some painting done this evening. I slapped paint on this lot.
I bet you can’t guess what paint colour spurted out of the bottle.
I will hopefully get some more done tomorrow.
Please note the ‘was’ there. Everything is either aching or hurting so painting was cancelled. I was looking forward to having a go at painting tiger striped uniforms. Last time I tried that was in the late 90’s.
The civilian and VC were there as a ‘now you have finished the hard bit’ interlude.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
Today I printed off a few more miniatures from the Nam range. US Forces on the left VC troops on the right.
I decided to see what they would look like and will get them sprayed tomorrow ready for some painting.
The dude sitting at the back is a door gunner for one of the Huey’s. I am going to do the main vehicles on the FDM machine with the fiddly bits done on the resin machine.
I will let you know how I get on.
All together now….https://youtu.be/mQitsOAvEus
This is going to be a bit of a rambling stream of consciousness kind of a post.
As you know, if you follow my blog, that I paint little toy men and goblins (among others). If you just popped by, then hello and thank you.
So this said hobby of mine can get a little expensive, add in a printer and after the initial outlay then it can become a bit cheaper. Paints, flock glue etc bumps the price a bit too.
I opened my Geek club in school where the kids paint models that I print for them. I support them by using the tools and resin. There are six of them and each one of them wrote to a company to see if they would help us out in any small way they could. Would you like to guess how many bothered to reply?
Zero,
We only chose companies that I have spent hundreds of pounds with. Not one even bothered to reply.
Now, I know that my little school with its little website isn’t going to make any companies their millions, but it is half a dozen 10 year olds who are getting into the hobby . One is moving onto pastures new and bless her on Friday she was making a list of the companies I got my stuff from.
I have written to the company we get our paints from. I did send a bit of a begging letter to see if they could send us some paint so we can get her a good start keeping up her hobby that she loves. My little club has spent nearly £200 getting paints etc. from them. Sadly I am not holding my breath.
Every other YouTube channel I watch has these companies firing out free stuff to people. One guy I watched was up to his third 3D printer.
Now this may seem that it is sour grapes and to some extent it is, not for me, but for a little group if six kids who wrote letters instead of painting miniatures. I did advise them that people might not be able to help, but to not answer in my books is pretty shitty.
Here endeth the rambling B.S. for today
Tonight was about slicing files to print this weekend. I also spent far too long playing on Ark Survival Evolved.
This evening I got the Nam test miniatures off the printer…
They have come out fine. Now one of the civilians has no feet. I am going to check to see if they have feet on the image… it might be that they are meant to be in paddy fields so feet are not necessary… not sure. I am sure I could pinch feet off other civilians to befeet her if needed.
We have two special forces, two civilians, two regular army and an Air Cav officer who likes surfing. The guy having a lie down is a VC casualty.
I have a couple of niggles with these, first being the supports are pretty chunky and didn’t come of as easily as I would have expected (compared to some of my other manufacturers). Second is, although I kind of like the chunky aesthetic, the running dude on the right is not much taller than the kneeling dude on the left.
I will have a play around with sizes tomorrow and see what I think. I am looking forward to painting tiger stripes on the special forces.
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