Bogenwald

Posted on April 13, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 3 Comments

Day Four…Royal Armouries

Today was a visit to the Royal Armouries. We used to visit quite a bit around twenty years ago. The Museum is pretty much the same but the outside bit has totally changed causing me much consternation on where to park. In the end I was in the multi story car park. Which was a bloody nightmare in first finding a space and then finding the car didn’t fit the spaces.

My phone died when I got in, so I only managed a few photos…

I did end up spending some pennies on a new book…

We are heading back to Northumberland tomorrow and then heading North to catch the ferry on Saturday night.

Tomorrow is a stop off in Darlington to pick up a beastie for my daughter then into Newcastle for leather for me and a comic book shop for my eldest.

Posted on April 12, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 3 Comments

Thackeray Medical Museum

Today we did a hop further down country. It took a couple of hours to go door to door.

We got to the Thackeray with only a minor wobble with the sat nav trying to take us through the back of a hospital.

The museum itself is on a couple of floors with the ubiquitous cafe and gift shop.

It has a good bit where you choose a character and follow them through Leeds in the 1850’s… it wasn’t a good end for a few of them.

They had a pretty good selection of exhibits and information throughout.

I really wanted to find some more of these

I had a hunt in the shop to see if they had any, sadly not. I forgot who did them, but it was to support health reform.

Posted on April 11, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 1 Comment

Shopping Day

Today was a shopping day with the kids running wild in the Metro Centre. Thankfully every shop they wanted was pretty much close to each other.

We then descended on IKEA… which proved a little expensive (you cannot get IKEA stuff easily or cheaply on Shetland).

Finally we went to our friend house, we saw them last in 2018.

Tomorrow we head to Leeds.

Posted on April 10, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

Off Island II

Got off the boat at 07.00 and set off to have breakfast at Dundee. Sadly the cafe opened late. Was short staffed and had nothing gluten free fir my daughter. So we got lunch at a Tesco and headed on down to Edinburgh zoo which was heaving. We were the second last car to get into the car park.

Here is the only animal I took a photo of. Some kind of marmoset.

We left Edinburgh and headed down into Northumberland. I got into my Sister in Laws at 18.30. I am knackered now.

Posted on April 10, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

Character from a Book

If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why?

Lord, Sir John Roxton from The Lost World. I have always loved this character from when I read the book as a child.

Posted on April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 8 Comments

Off Island

I am sat on the boat eating very expensive, okay, food… so technically as I am on the water I am now officially off island for the start of my holidays.

WiFi on the boat is cack so I am posting this now rather than trying to post later.

Tomorrow is Edinburgh zoo then down to the North East of England to stay at my Sister in Law for a couple of Nights thence down to Leeds for a couple of nights.

We are going to the Royal Armouries so if anyone wants any photos of anything let me know and I will give it a go.

I wish I had brought some paints and things to paint. I have brought some things to sort out some ideas for a Nam Skirmish campaign.

Posted on April 8, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 2 Comments

Working on the Trolls

So this is my last evening at home for a while so I decided to crack on with the big boys/girls.

Still a bit to do, but it is less to do when I come back. Typically the washer decided to spring a leak today so it will probably be new washer time when I return… that and pay for the car repairs. April is going to be a bloody expensive month!

Posted on April 7, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 4 Comments

Starting on the Trolls

I am heading off on my holidays on Sunday nights boat. So I thought I would get some painting done. I went for the trolls as I wanted to try some random colour approaches.

Still at the messy stage here.

Posted on April 6, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 6 Comments

Swamp Goblins Cavalry

Just had a thought, are you cavalrymen if you only ride horses… are frog mounted goblins cavalry or are they something else?

But I digress, I just realised the time and I have painted nothing… I did clean up the test bits and pieces.

Posted on April 5, 2023 by maenoferren22 · 5 Comments

Swamp Trolls

Highland Miniatures Patreon dropped today and I spent no time printing out two of the three swamp trolls. I also printed off a frog rider. Another test of frog cavalry (with sticks) is printing as I type this.

I decided against the third swamp troll as it is throwing up the corrosive stomach contents. These will be for Dragon Rampant I don’t need set unit sizes. I really do like the ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ vibe with these. I really love the frog riders, you cannot see it, but this dude has a pan strapped to his head.

I didn’t have any suitably sized circular bases for the trolls, but did find some penny sabot bases which were a nice size. I used some filler to hide both the coins and gap. I deliberately left a depression to allow me to add some resin for water and because I am a pillock I left it under the right foot in both of them!

A bit miffed tonight as the car was making an odd sound so I popped down to the garage to get it booked in when I am away next week. He wanted a quick test run and banned me from driving it as the bearings on the offside front were shot. The extra good news is that the brakes need sorting and it seemed like the clutch is dodgy too. Hopefully some of this will come under the warranty!