Three Legions

This evening I decided to try out the 2mm legions. The central one has its Velites as well as a line of Triarii…

The bases are 80x120mm. Normally the bases are 60x120mm for the army sized ones. Skirmishes have same frontage but are 10mm deep.

Ghostly Skeleton

Or perhaps it is a Skeleton ghost… either way it is done… I have five more to go but this one was my test subject.

I also got the bulk of the four legions painted as well as some sand getting put onto three legion bases, I would have done four but ran out of glue and sand.

Starting to get Going

I slept for about four hours this afternoon. But after dinner I got my 2mm legions sprayed as well as a 28mm ghost from Highland Miniatures.

I have enough cohorts to make six republican legions. I intend to paint each legion in a different colour.

I also had some EPVC knocking about so did some hills for the 2mm stuff too…

Bushi Buntai

Today I printed off some more 15mm miniatures. Only problem I had was losing a foot.

I was feeling so much better today, then bam .. at 16.30 whatever string had been holding me up was suddenly cut and off to bed I needed to go.

Still positive and although the government says I can return to work tomorrow I have decided to take another day.

New Reading Material

Today I got some new books…

This evening I also started printing a Bushi Force on the resin printer. I also chose a barge (of all things) to print on the Filament one as a test.

The following image is June’s Patreon release from Highland Miniatures.

The leader on a giant flying creature is missing from the photo. As are the terrain items.

Sohei Monk Buntai

Today I felt a lot better, but overdid it and had to lie down for a couple of hours.

I did a number of reports and as a reward to myself I was allowed to sort out the Sohei.

I got them washed and cured, based and undercoated… here they are:

So from left to right…

Senior with a tetsubo

Three Sohei with naginata

Two initiates with yumi

Two initiates with teppo

So this list may look familiar, that is because it is the list used for the 28mm boxed Ronin Sohei miniatures set.

I bought the rules on pdf and can I find them? So to make a quick list I copied that one. I have ordered a paper copy but it won’t be here for a while.

I also printed of a trio of Onna-Musha (female warriors). Two are armed with a naginata and another a bow.

Sort of excited here… new contrast paints have been announced. There are some very useful colours in there. I am really looking forward to getting a good purple.

Health Update

Well I made it to 22:30 before needing to retire. I have been hot and cold all day and my back was a nightmare most of the day too.

I managed to have a couple of meetings today as well as answer some emails. So as a reward I sliced some Sohei for Ronin. I was going to do a samurai force but unfortunately the miniatures were sorted into groups of four or eight miniatures.

The ones I did do will be ready by tomorrow morning.

New Patreon Starts

So in my pain filled time in bed, in between sleeping and yelping (sadly my back is still buggered) I had a mooch on my minifactory and ended up joining Highland Miniatures on their Patreon …they can be found here

I have been considering them for a good while and eventually bit the bullet.

The following image popped up in my Google image reminders, I made this kit to help out a school who wanted to visit the castle and have a Knight in it. I didn’t have the heart to tell them the castle was from the 16th century

Buggeration

Just call me Typhoid Mary!

Started to feel cold and shivery, started feeling a bit sick and have lost my appetite… so just to be on the safe side I took a Covid test….

The T line appeared almost instantaneously…. Definitely no faint lines for me!

I suppose on the upside I can have a lie in on Monday. On the downside all this uncontrollable shivering is not good for my bad back!

Alea iacta est

Okay, totally out of context but Joe came over this evening for a yarn about what we fancy playing in the future.

We also had a quick gladiatorial game too.

It started of easy enough, my Retiarius against his Murmillo.

He won initiative and hit my boy for three wounds, unperturbed I struck back and totally missed.

A couple of turns later I managed to get him in my net, I had already dropped it once!

I totally failed to hit him, even when he was wrapped up…

I managed to get some solid hits onto him but not enough to delay the inevitable…

It was nice to dust off the arena again… obviously I now want more Gladiators!