So this evening I got my finger out and started painting. I pushed on with the Recon dude and female civilian…
Now I really needed to add in the light squiggles but I don’t think my eyes or brush control are up to it. Now one day, I may push on and give it a go but not today. You can see what it looks like below.
Yes I managed to get some painting done this evening. I slapped paint on this lot.
I bet you can’t guess what paint colour spurted out of the bottle.
I will hopefully get some more done tomorrow.
Please note the ‘was’ there. Everything is either aching or hurting so painting was cancelled. I was looking forward to having a go at painting tiger striped uniforms. Last time I tried that was in the late 90’s.
The civilian and VC were there as a ‘now you have finished the hard bit’ interlude.
Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.
Today I printed off a few more miniatures from the Nam range. US Forces on the left VC troops on the right.
I decided to see what they would look like and will get them sprayed tomorrow ready for some painting.
The dude sitting at the back is a door gunner for one of the Huey’s. I am going to do the main vehicles on the FDM machine with the fiddly bits done on the resin machine.
I will let you know how I get on.
All together now….https://youtu.be/mQitsOAvEus
This evening I got the Nam test miniatures off the printer…
They have come out fine. Now one of the civilians has no feet. I am going to check to see if they have feet on the image… it might be that they are meant to be in paddy fields so feet are not necessary… not sure. I am sure I could pinch feet off other civilians to befeet her if needed.
We have two special forces, two civilians, two regular army and an Air Cav officer who likes surfing. The guy having a lie down is a VC casualty.
I have a couple of niggles with these, first being the supports are pretty chunky and didn’t come of as easily as I would have expected (compared to some of my other manufacturers). Second is, although I kind of like the chunky aesthetic, the running dude on the right is not much taller than the kneeling dude on the left.
I will have a play around with sizes tomorrow and see what I think. I am looking forward to painting tiger stripes on the special forces.
I didn’t really make myself a lot of time to paint this evening… but I did a little bit:
Now the shaman in the centre has reminded me of someone for absolutely ages… I just couldn’t put my finger on who. This evening the clouds parted and the recollections streamed through…
Yes, I know he looks nothing like the wise old elf from the TV show… but somehow to me he does. If I hadn’t already painted the hood yellow then it would be painted blue.0
Still aching like mad, luckily no washing machines to move today, but the hot water tank overflow kicked in at 22.00 so I have fastened the ball cock up and turned off the boiler. I will get a new ballcock tomorrow.
I did manage to get some paint on some goblins today…
We have a leader, left. Three frogherds and a shaman on the right.
Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow evening.
Well okay, they aren’t. But they might have been. I worked on this pair today…
I made a balls up in the left hand face, redid the undercoat and seem to have lost a lot of detail. I will try and remember how to do highlights!
I really must crack on with the goblins as I have at least thirty six infantry to get painted. Not to mention three more Mordheim gangs and a pile more undead.
Tonight I did some more work on the trolls.
These are nearly finished, hopefully tomorrow I will get them completed. Then onto more goblins.
So this is my last evening at home for a while so I decided to crack on with the big boys/girls.
Still a bit to do, but it is less to do when I come back. Typically the washer decided to spring a leak today so it will probably be new washer time when I return… that and pay for the car repairs. April is going to be a bloody expensive month!
Bogenwald 