My eldest has a bit of a Batman theme this Christmas so I decided to help out and print them something.
This was where I got to…
It was only after I had glued them to the bases, undercoated them and started painting Harley Quinn that I realised one of her hat pom poms hadn’t printed properly. Hence the greenstuff!
Once it has cured I will get it undercoated and then finish the paint job.
Come to think of it, I actually undercoated her twice, once in a grey like Batman and then again in white to help the red out a bit.
We are slowly returning to normality here. Temperature has jumped from -2° to 7° and we now have heavy rain and strong winds. I am hoping that the 6 inches of ice up my track dissappear before I try to drive up it tomorrow, but I am not holding my breath.
I feel a bit sorry for the kids at school. They were meant to be doing their musical and sales evening on the 12th the day we lost power for a week. We had one more chance to do it at a concert tomorrow night and that has now been cancelled. They put a lot of planning and effort into making some great games as well as making lots of things to sell.
We can hold the raffle in the new year, but all of their items were Christmas related. We will nox ig up and sell it next year as luckily it will keep, apart from the sweets, but at least they can take them home to share with their families.
Well the snow is sort of hanging in there. The weight of oit has buckled the porch roof and damaged the roofing felt. I now have snowmen water dripping into a bucket. To be fair the roof really needed replacing in my October break but sadly the wind was too strong, from what I remember.
The gritter came along the spur to rescue us today and promptly slid into the ditch. It was good of them to try though. We did manage to get out into Lerwick, the place devoid of snow.
On the up side the temperature has resents four degrees and things are beginning to melt, on the down side they reckon -1° tonight so the nice thawed stuff will freeze solid.
To be fair to the electric company they are giving us a good wadge of compensation. Sadly my tropical fish didn’t survive the cold temperatures though. Luckily I only had two so it wasn’t a huge tank full.
You may have wondered where I had gone… or maybe not…the last time you heard from me I was sat in a blizzard in a queue of stationery traffic. Snow was expected, but not to the levels we saw. I am Back… why then has it taken so long …well we lost power on Monday at 15.00 and it returned today (Friday) at 18.30.
Temperatures were down to -2° outside and our bedrooms were sitting at 10° so not exactly the warmest few days. Luckily we have a gas stove as well as a couple of gas bottle heaters for the lounge and kitchen.
The snow was so heavy that it snapped power lines as well as snapped the power poles. In my valley alone we had ten down or disabled. Two poles were in half.
We had around 6 inches on top off the stuff already down with some drifting… here I am stood on top of the snow… nope I am not Legolas, the snow had frozen solid. The council didn’t come and plow or grit my road so we have a good old bit of ice driving to get to the bit where they had gritted…
Finally this is my normal pose
My school was affected by the power outage too so we have all been home all week.
The weird bit is the snow isn’t everywhere… my road and Lerwick… spot the difference!
The snow starts about 5 miles from me. People in Lerwick couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about! Can’t say I blame them!
There were around 6500 homes without power this week. The Engineers did an amazing job to get so many people back online.. they basically had to rebuild the West and North of the power grid.
Tonight I set to work rebasing my 10mm elves. You may remember I had left them in the shed and the mdf bases on a fair few armies had an attack of white mould.
Over the past few weeks I had been getting them of the MDF and last night thought I might as well get them back onto bases.
I also got some more done on the skeletons as well as used up ends of filament rolls making more flexible walls
So as you know I like a bit of 3D printing and to support my Geek Club (who just happen to love the Goonmaster anthropomorphic miniatures) I joined their patreon… to be honest it wasn’t hard…look (badly photographed) chameleons…
However, this is not the doomed part… as I had jumped on the monthly payment for Goonmaster, one of my others was going to have to go the journey. Yeah!
I was going to drop Highland, as I have had three months of dwarves which I am not really that into. They were bringing out a new race… everyone was guessing… anywhere from Chaos dwarves to Wood Elves… sadly for me…
When I played Warhammer 6th Edition I loved The Orks and Goblins… I had a lot of Gobbos… I always wanted a whole 2000 point goblin army… looks like I have a chance thirty years later!
To be fair if it had been anything except Gobbos or wood elves I would have been gone.
So it would seem like my Lord of the Rings one will be going in the new year. I was supporting them from day one, about two and a half years ago and I have printed very little. The odd miniature here and there for the One Ring RPG and for the stalled battle of the Five Armies diorama.
It will be a case of if I want something I will buy it on My Mini Factory. I am hoping the paths of the dead will be next!
Yes I am feeling better and managed to stay up all day as well as sort out the horse and do the weekly shop.
I started watching Wednesday with Lucy, thoroughly enjoyed it. We got up to episode six. She is on her third watching of it. Whilst doing so I tried my dipping inks in the cat food box trays…
I can fit fifteen in each box, so there is room to grow the collection.
So foolishly I made my way to work today. Cold and Flu plus kept me on my feet. But my cover teacher was Poorly so off I went. Friday is technically a shorter day as we finish at 14.00. Well it would be if I didn’t run the Geek club.
If you remember we were making stone walls out of 10mm blue foam. This was where we got to today…
I am so proud of them. But more importantly they are proud of themselves.
We still have work to do but they are getting there. In the background is the tray for the spray varnish.
Sat in bed writing this, nose streaming and guts well and truly being coughed up…. Bleurgh!
Bogenwald 