Well I got my arse into gear tonight and finished the skeletons….
I am still in two minds whether to add rust to these or not. I didn’t on any of the other ones in the army so perhaps not.
In the same box as the skeletons I found a dozen ghouls … I might as well do these next…
I will keep you posted.
I decided to get the metalwork done on the Skeletons this evening.
I mainly went for an iron colour. The sword cross guards and leaders’s breastplate were done in bronze. I actually nearly did the whole lot bronze, but didn’t as I felt the swords didn’t look Bronze Age! I am happy to accept (or suspend belief) to allow for ambulant skeletons… but couldn’t bring myself to paint a fantasy sword the wrong colour!!! I need help, I really do 🙂
Tonight after fighting for an age to sort out the videos for the Jarlshof trip it turned out I wasn’t allowed to upload to WordPress. It seems like there is a limit of one. .. even though it said no videos allowed. There is a super simple fix though… send them £120 including VAT and all my video problems would disappear.
Fair enough, I thought and added my videos to YouTube. Now I get that WordPress is a company, but does it seriously make a difference if I fill up my 3gb with videos or photos. In my mind letting me fill it up with videos would mean I have to decide earlier to pay or not.
Yeah I know it is probably more complicated than that, but I am cross and not willing to cut them any slack.
This evening I got the part painted foot soldiers finished…
Now with these I did cut a few corners. I didn’t bother doing every strap and piece of rope. But they are done and that is what I am wanting. I don’t think I have any other Gallian’s undercoated.
Tomorrow I think I will blast on with the Part finished skeletons i found when looking for my big Sharpie.
Tonight I got the two knights finished … well I still need to do a shield for each. But the bulk is done for this pair.
I also got a bit done on the foot soldiers…
These still have a whole load to do, but at least all of them have some paint on them.
I am going to have to print some shields, even though I said I wasn’t going to print anything new for a while… I need the shields to finish these.
Well keeping to my word I did more painting this evening…
As I splurged too much AP plate metal out I also hunted the shelves for anything that needed doing metallic.
This pair are nearly done, I still have at least a couple of knights like these to do, the Joan of Arc type as well as all the foot. Probably Goblins after that as they are undercoated.
Well for a while anyway. I have decided to just halt printing for a while as I really have a bucketful of crap to paint.
I decided to make a start, by doing a smidge on the Gallians’s
I was just thinking today on what I need to paint and the light bulb came on. Stop printing and get painting. I will need to print some more stuff for the Geek Club, but to be honest I am really going to try and burn through some of my backlog.
Off the top of my head I have the following :
36 Goblin infantry plus a dozen cavalry
30 odd 15mm samurai and Koreans
About six knights and associated foot
Two full Mordheim Gangs, Sisters of Sigmar and a human group.
All the Vietnam gear
All the ironclads
À table full of buildings
24 skeleton infantry and a dozen cavalry
Oh yeah and the Gladiators.
To be honest this is what I can think of straight off. I am 100% sure there is more… this is only the printed stuff… I am not even thinking about the metal miniatures!
I really, really must kickstart my arse into painting again. I have new paint and brushes… I have pretty things to paint so perhaps I need to put them all together.
While the kids at Geek club were painting some awesome gladiators I decided to have a go at some zombies.
Will they win any prizes…. Nahhh. Did I do all three in forty minutes…Yeahh.
I shall actually paint the child’s T-shirt a different colour as it is hard enough keeping a white one clean on an alive kid, never mind an undead brain chomping one.
I do actually like simplified models… I am really not keen on models with tons of fiddly bits… I would much prefer to paint a mono-pose ork from the nineties than a modern GW one. Obviously this is personal preference and ‘Each to their Own’ as they say.
Or one poor Principal taking on his Geek Club
Last Friday in Geek club I took in my gladiator game and the three kids that were there loved it. Sadly I went down in a flurry of blows, but I must have done something right as the crowd let me live… close call there methinks.
This week I am printing Gladiators for them.
Well this evening my good lady eventually left me alone and I managed to get these finished…
The necklace one has its string on, sadly I cannot find the earring bits!
I managed to get some Japanese civilians done to go alongside the Ikko Ikki and Onna Bushi.
My wife has got well into her Isopods so I thought a necklace and earrings as a bit of a daft present for her birthday 🙂
Oh yeah some twit forgot to take his steroids this morning then spent 3 or 4 hours sawing and using sanders… really not clever!
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