Tonight I finished off the two units of skirmish shot…theystill need the bases painted but,I will do them all together when I get the rest of the units finished…
As I had the sand and basing glue out I went for the basecoated ones too…
I eventually bit the bullet and gotmyself some Army Painter Speedpaints on pre order… they are actually their way so whe they come I will let you know what I think.
On little men…
Tonight I clashed some paint on two units of imperial skirmishers…
There are two more units of these to paint up then the remaining Tercio shot need to be done.
I will need to get the sand on some of the ones that I have already painted to match in with the sand covered ones.
This evening I finished off a couple of units of Imperial Skirmishers and then undercoated in the usual blue-grey
I also got a smidge more done on my not Rohan miniatures…
The lady’s face has gone weird, it looks naff compared to the male one. I reckon a repaint is required. I added a bit ofvsgading to the white horses on the armour, not that you can tell from this photo.
After saying I am going to do less posts, I end up doing two in one day, but this time Indo have something go show for it.
You may, or may not have noticed that there was no blog last night. I had done no painting and was knackered so made the conscious decision not to write one on basically my day. It took a bit of willpower not to, but this morning I woke and there was no major guilt trip or worry that it might have exploded or something like that.
I though this was an appropriate track…The End another one would have been… Its the end of the blog as we know it (and I feel fine).
Up to yesterday I had done, a quite an impressive 920 day streak of daily blogs, some had more than one in and others had also my Shetland blog too. This mammoth undertaking started in 2019 when I decided I had missed a few weeks due to working in a busy school. It kind of became easier to blog than not, but when inhavent done anything to blog about, that is when I start to wonder why…
Am I stopping, Nope, not at all. Before my self imposed blog a day I was doing three to four posts week so there is still a fair old bit inside me.
In the next few weeks I want to get these Italian Wars miniatures finished, I think the destruction of the Pike blocks caused a bit of a slump in my enthusiasm. I have only three tercio shot and four units of skirmishers to finish. Hopefully without further destruction they should be done and dusted and put in a box never to see the light of day for a while… a bit like now really.
I didn’t get any painting done tonight as I decided to nip onto the console and have a quick play on Fallout 4… you can probably see where this is going!
Whilst going from point A to B I suddenly came across a whole area of the map I had never explored before. Therefore I just had go and check it out. This led to further wandering and exploring and before long it was bed time. The good or bad thing about painting miniatures (depending on your viewpoint) is that they are not going to disappear. They are still sitting there waiting for more paint.
This was my trip to work this morning…
The car struggled more than usual, so I checked the tyres. Somehow there are summer tyres on there. I always go for all weather ones as standard. It looks like at the last tyre change what I wanted isn’t on the car.
The snow is meant to be gone by tomorrow so I should be okay for a while.
Today my good lady and I decided to just go to the chip shop for dinner. I am really glad we did as it meant we saw the Aurora on the way home, before the clouds rolled in…
The photo is a bit naff as it was taken on my phone, but the green can definitely be seen.
I managed to get some painting done too. A but more on the 6mm Italian Wars and also, as they were right in front if me, the two from the Rohan range…
I had training this evening and then needed to collect my daughter at 19.00, which turned out to be 19.20. They needed to go shopping for new jeans and packed lunch stuff as they are doing their mock exams and for some reason they don’t get to finish in time for lunch.
We didn’t eat until 21.30 so by time we had sorted out then it was too late to start.
I suppose a better title would have been 6mm Italian Wars miniatures and a dinocrocuta. I only managed about 20 minutes tonight before my back gave out.
It will teach me to try and move the muck buckets at the stable, they weigh a fair old bit and I needed to get them lifted into the trailer. Not good with a sore back
So here are tonight’s little collection…
To be fair I added a couple of washes on the Dinocrocuta
Well I have had another night on the sidelines. Back is still buggered and I, technically, am down one tooth. I say technically as I still have it with me… just not I my gob
The nice dentist gave me it back in a little packet to stick under my pillow… I reckon I should have 50p under there tomorrow.
To be fair it had developed an abcess. I had the temporary fillings replaced in November. The root canal had been started six years ago and through various reasons had never been finished. They did warn me in November that the procedure might not work.
The dentist tonight showed me the xray and it didn’t look to hopeful. She would have given it another go, but said it would probably end up with more pain in the future and would end up having to have it removed at a later date.
As it happens it came out so easily that she dropped it. It took longer for the numbing stuff to kick in than the extraction.
My weekend improves as somehow I have done my back in. It is causing great hilarity as I yelp when I move. I managed to get onto the floor earlier, but sadly couldn’t get up again. Needless to say I didn’t manage any painting this evening.
I am going to try for an emergency dental appointment tomorrow too. I reckon I rattle now due to the amount of painkillers I have swallowed.
I don’t reckon they will try to keep the tooth this time as it has become loose. It was about 5 years ago when they started on root canal work. Four temporary fillings later I think the tooth, and me, has run out if luck.
Bogenwald 