So if you remember, I noticed that this chappy had a broken sword in transit…
Well today i had a go at fixing it and am rather pleased with the results…
It is a bit longer than the original. This was so that I could have two points of contact for the superglue. I drilled out a pilot hole in the sword and then cut a piece of flexible wire to fit between the hole and the plume. I then mixed up far too much superfine Milliput and set to work. Gradually I got closer and closer to the shape wanted. I decided to call it a day at this point and will sand it down tomorrow.
My mate has asked me to paint up some more Flintloque miniatures … these are the first eight…
Sadly the officer top left has lost half a sword on the way to Shetland. I found the missing bit in the box. I doubt it will superglue back, well not without falling straight off as soon as it is bumped. So that leaves pinning or rebuilding with milliput.
I managed to get his miniatures all varnished and Sengoku game tokens done today…
Tonight I managed to get the next two goblins done. By done please read that as pretty much done… I might dirty up the armour a bit…
The toes could do with a bit of a touch up as the paint was rubbed off whilst holding the miniatures. I really need to come up with a better way to hold miniatures without a base.
Just the fallen hero to go for the miniature painting… well unless I need more goblins 😜.
Well actually the title is a total lie, click bait has arrived in my Blog… the two I started are done.
Part of me wishes that they both weren’t wearing red, but in reality that is something that can be easily sorted with an overpaint. The other thjng that is a bit in the face are the straps on the arms of the leader. I may do something with them when I get the rest done.
I doubt I will manage any painting tomorrow as I am having another game of Silver Bayonet with Joe… hopefully my dice will be better in this next game🤞.
This evening I did a bit of work on a couple of the goblins.
There is still along way to go which is probably why I have a bit of a problem with them. The one with the bow doesn’t actually have surfer shorts on, it is in fact a kilt type of thing. I will crack on with them tomorrow and hopefully get them finished.
This evening I finished watching ‘All of us are Dead’. I actually really enjoyed it, although I am not ashamed to admit it … there were a few moist eye moments. I only hope to god they don’t bring out a second series and leave it where it is at.
As i said yesterday, I was a bit lacking in the human side of the battle of the five Armies. So this evening I evened things up a bit and got these two done…
Tomorrow I hope to get some work done on the Goblins.
Well as you know I was going to do a small diorama with small number of printed miniatures. Problem was I was missing the men. So I added some. Problem with that is that they then outnumbered the forces of evil. So to redress the balance I printed some more.
Technically three men. One of them is having a lie down. I added some orks from various sets to add a bit of variety.
It took ages to get them to print as I reinstalled Chitubox on the PC and for some reason all the settings had changed. It just about drove me up the wall. I got there in the end though.
Tonight Joe and I got a long awaited game in. As you can probably guess, we played our first game of The Silver Bayonet.
I went with the French and Joe chose the Spanish. We played the first Scenario named ‘The Investigation’. We set up the table as seen below.
My forces are in the bottom and Joe is to the top . The black markers are clues, Joe managed to reach two first. First was some oriole remains that had been gnawed upon.
Sadly his second proved to be a hobgoblin, which was hiding in the middle of the ruins and guess who he attacked….
Sadly my dice throws were a bit rusty. I got overcome by the privation of the scary monster. In the end we managed to throw three double ones and ended up attracting another hobgoblin and two revenenants.
It all got a bit brutal around my initial move location …I never managed to move away from it. In the end I managed to kill the swordsman and wound the hobgoblin…
Sadly my grenadier bought the farm. The doctor managed to revive one of my troopers, but in the end my officer charged to infantryman at the corner, failed to hit him and as he was already wounded he succumbed to a bayonet thrust to the lungs…
We decided to call it at that point. Joe was the winner as my troops decided to leg it when the officer went down. This would of course mean that he had to deal with the indestructible hobgoboin and a revenant. I reckon he was in with a good chance as he had already killed one of each. My Occultist managed to do more damage to herself than the spells did to her enemies… I told you my dice were naff! In my case it was more a case of ‘Carry on Screaming’ than ‘Van Helsing’!
It was a good first game, we did get some things wrong, but it didn’t stop the enjoyment.
One thing I did notice was that there was no easy find rule page, so we spent a lot of time to-ing and fro-ing through the book.
We are going to have another bash at the rules next Wednesday.
Tonighti managed to get the Wolves and Goblin finished as well as pretty much do the same with the elf and dwarf…
I was going to put them on a base I already have, but I think I will make something a bit bigger.
Today was more papering, I managed another wall even though my back and legs were giving me gyp. We had to go and buy more paper as we had a change of ideas.. I think we made the right choice. I am hoping to get the rest of the lounge done tomorrow.
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