Tonight I worked on my spectral steeds. They were a bit of faff with all the colour transitions from the bone to grey to green, but I think it kind of worked…
I should hopefully get a good crack on with the riders tomorrow as well as finish these off… on second thoughts I think I will finish these and then get on with the zombies… speaking of which… I just remembered today that I have a pile of multiple zombies on my hard drive from the Frost Kickstarter…I may have to go and have a peek. The Frost ones though are huge, so a lot of shrinking will be required. Not that I am printing anything else until the undead are done …cough, cough!
Anyway whilst painting the above I was watching a live stream by the Basic Brush… I follow him on YouTube. It was nice to sort of chat on the keyboard… well worth a watch in my opinion. I have mentioned him before when I was talking about the issues with the speedpaints…
You may have noticed the grey ghouls I the above photo. These are the scaled ones mentioned yesterday. The 90% size is what I wanted so I am pretty pleased with them. In hindsight I should have added the head in the software rather than trying to get it glued onto some of them between a raised bone and a neck. It is a miracle that they actually all had heads… if I do decide to print some of the Frost ones then they will be built electronically and printed out as a one piece.
Talking of printing things, if you remember, the big beastie is hollow, today I got all the components to make a small device to shove where the sun does not shine…
The light is a UV one to shove inside hollow models to cure the resin inside. Unfortunately the drain holes on the big one were too small to go right inside, but I was able to shine the lights in to help. Usually I would decide on the size of the drain hole, but these were built in and it never occurred to me to check, otherwise I could have added my own.
He is now undercoated with a zenithal highlight to help with the light and dark.
Today I finished the painted zombies and based another nine ready for undercoating tomorrow. I decided to go for two units of twelve hence the extras.
I only did six of the larger ghouls to go with the Silver bayonet and decided to do some smaller ones. Instead of printing the individual components like last time I went for ‘building’ them in 3D builder. I dropped them down to 90% after sticking one next to a skeleton in the software.
I did twelve, most were built individually, but by about the eighth one I decided to mirror some.
I also hunted out my Mantic skeletons to see if I could add another unit… sadly they are tiny…
I said the printer was switched off until the undead were done… as you can tell by the above post… I turned it back on again and also went for some prehistoric beasties to act as dire wolves… basically some of these both armoured and unarmoured.
Today Joe an I had a morning of painting and then another game of Silver Bayonet.
We basically had to go and rescue some gold from a swamp… slight issue was the scary dog.
So we rolled as per the usual method, but more importantly was the controller of the spectral black dog. Muggins here lost the important roll and was attacked by the dog. It leapt onto my poor doctor who err fell over after getting a nasty bite from a dog who suddenly appeared. The terror roll was at minus 8 on my roll, which was a bugger as I rolled a four on two D10.
Luckily I gained control of the dog for a few turns and managed to get rid of the opposition’s swordswoman. My Supernatural investigator managed to get onto the flank and cause some casualties
My troops had also got their eye in and managed to drop both the officer and doctor. My occultist did everything she could to bless the weapon of the officer, eventually she made, it allowing the officer to wound the dog, sadly though the dog then attacked her…
somehow she survived, especially when a certain person used an awful lot of points to try and bump her off…
In the end the dog attacked the investigator, the occultist managed to bless his weapons, leading to the death of the beast.
In the end, Joe was down to two miniatures remaining, who took the sensible option and legged it.
This left me in charge of the battlefield as well as the gold… and for the first time a win.
Today I spent more time finding ghouls to print than I did painting. I decided to go for some multi pose ones as it will give me more options.
However as you can see they are huge. This is a problem using different creators…Now I am in two minds.
First is to give these ones away and reduce the size by about 20% so that they fit in as ghouls.
Second is to say bugger it and just run with them as they are… it is a fantasy army after all.
I want twelve of them and have three glued together and three are sitting on the printer so it won’t be too much of a hassle to shrink them and reprint.
Well sort of…I still need to get the washes on to add some shading.
So this week I have painted 62 miniatures…. somwhat is left from the printed lot… six wraith cavalry and the mounted Liche and then the zombies… so I reckon that by this time next week I should have the whole army finished…. well hopefully 🤞🤞🤞.
The remaining miniatures are almost all undercoated so I will make a start on the zombies tomorrow.
Today we power washed the stables at the farm…
It got a bit wet in there… but we got it all cleaned off…I now ache though… hoisting twenty odd 6×4 rubber mats that are an inch thick takes its toll.
Yes it is officially tye end of my 56th journey around the sun today. Time certainly has flown. I had a great day and got some awesome presents too…
The kids know I like lego, not shown are the sweeties.
I had a pretty relaxing day but to be honest the best present was that BoJo has resigned… here endeth the political segment of the post…
I did manage to get a dozen wraiths painted today
As you can see they are in two distinct styles… this gives me a but of flexibility, two units of six or one of twelve… so that is 50 miniatures up to this stage so far this week.
Tomorrow I hope to get the Boyar started, I doubt they will get finished as there are some complex armour and cloth mixtures to sort out.
To be honest, I never managed twelve hours, I got about six hours off and on as my back started to give up the ghost. So how far did I get….
So I finished off the dozen in the middle and the mage and got the next twenty four finished, apart from the white bit on the right hand banner.
I am going to carry on with the painting tomorrow and see how I get on. I got the zombies onto their bases as well as giving mr half head a new set of hair…
Still a whole load to do… a dozen wraiths, half a dozen cavalry plus a mounted Liche, the zombies and the dozen Boyar infantry too.
I then have the big Beasty to do. I got my air brush out for this one as I really didn’t fancy doing something this big with a 00 brush 😉.
I think that is everything that I have for the undead army.
Today I decided to sort out the problem of the undead mounts. Now if you remember with thec16th century stuff ihzd problems with the pikes snapping so to solve the problem I either mixed ordinary and flexible resin or as of late I bough in some stuff that had the flex built in…. move forward a couple of months and I purchase some undead mounts that are in awesome poses, with, in some cases only one foot on the floor as you can imagine semi flexible resin would not work so well with gravity…. so after a bit of a head scratch I came up with this plan…
Each mount is supported by a gravestone or something similar. This should hopefully help with the problem of gravity induced bending!
Joe and I had a good session paintingnthis evening and I managed to get a fair old way on with the skeleton unit…
Still a fair old bit of work to go but there is definitely less white showing now.
Tomorrow I have decided to do a twelve hour challenge. 10.00 – 22.00. I am going to see how many miniatures I can paint in that time… hopefully quite a few… well what else are holidays for but to do something foolish.
Bogenwald 