Even though I am spending far too much time playing Fallout 76; I still managed to paint this pair this evening.
The collar was done with thr same light blue and it does make Barkhoven look like he has blue ears.
I cannot remember what the other one us, one of the civilian range from Alternative Armies, but as to the race… not a clue.
Yes, the Flintloque miniatures are nearly done. I worked on them this evening again. Painted the base, did the rims, took the photo and then realised I had forgotten all the brass work on the rifle and pistols!
I will try and get it done during the day tomorrow.
I have a hospital appointment with a specialist on Thursday so it is a ferry trip down to Aberdeen tomorrow evening. I could have taken a flight, but this way it is cheaper for the old NHS… oh yeah and it means I get some time in Aberdeen.
I am going to see if I can find any model shops… not holding my breath as I haven’t been able to in the past.
Some painting! Yes indeed first day of new year and I painted. Okay totally forgot today was 1st January… so while I remember… I want to wish everyone health, wealth and happiness for the years ahead.
Here are the fruits of my labour so to speak…
I hadn’t really made many hobby plans for 2023, well apart from getting stuff painted and built. The one thing I did decide on was to give up printing for a bit, this is one thing I pretty much kept to. My new resin printer is still in the box and the only reason the FDM one was opened was to print my son a replica pipe pistol from Fallout.
So do I have any actual plans… not really. Try and people more should be a major one… hopefully that will come about.
This evening I managed to get some work done on the Flintloque miniatures. Basically from left to right is unfinished towards a more finished state.
Spot the odd one out!
As tomorrow is Christmas Eve it is unlikely that I will get any more done, but I may get lucky.
This evening I decided to try and get some painting done on the 28mm Flintloque miniatures. I got a bit further than I thought I would… a couple are close to finished…
I will try and get a bit more done tomorrow evening.
Yesterday we had gales, today we had snow and for some reason strong winds about half four. My daughter and I were trying to grit the hill out the valley and we had to fight the shovel constantly as the wind was taking it.
Luckily we had a mattock in the back of the car (like you do!) because the grit piles were frozen solid… oh yeah the only shovel I could find to put in the car was a plastic snow shovel!
So with the wind and snow the kids broke up early for Christmas! I managed to stay home too, which was a huge relief yesterday!
This evening I wanted a quick win so redid this lady.
She basically is the same original colours for the tunic and breeches. I just redid them better then got the rest of her done.
I will get some flock on the base when I get a lot more miniatures done. I could have looked up what actual regiment she is from in the Flintloque world, but didn’t for two reasons. One, it is for my mate, who wasn’t that fussed and two,it is a fantasy world – I wasn’t too fussed either.
It was a nice easy miniature to paint the biggest fuss were the suspenders and even they weren’t that fussy as they are quite chunky and easy to do.
Apart from the base this was all done in Speedpaints 2.0. Oh yeah, while I remember The white bits were my rebottled GW paint from a good while ago…
This evening I cracked on and got the final pair done. I even tried doing eyes on this pair…
I also spent some of today sorting out my 3D printer files. Basically I downloaded a pile and got them onto my hard drive… I did a bit of printing too. I increased the size of the Vampire and Scarecrow, printed a giant centipede as well as did a test print of some more 15mm Samurai. I
kind of got these to allow me to do Ronin in 15mm. I will be able to do various Forces to go with my 15mm terrain.
Tomorrow I will get a start on the Silver Bayonet miniatures. The centipede is going to spend a few hours in the sun to make sure he is fully cured.
I got another officer finished this evening, this one was I a quite simple uniform with bit gauntlets and a cloak that meant there was no braid to be found anywhere…
So that is three down, two left…
We have an officer with his dolman thrown over his shoulder and a vampire officer next to him. I just liked the ‘gentleman about town’ look on this one.
I will try and get the ‘Silver bayonet ‘ beasties sprayed tomorrow and them might start with one of them tomorrow evening. I keep forgetting that I have two more days off as we had today off too…
Okay, to be frank, I cannot remember any examples in either literature or artistic renditions of elves being in the lancers, but this one evidently joined and no-one noticed his huge ears!
Tomorrow I will carry on with another officer from one of the Guard regiments.
I have three individual miniatures left to go from Alternative Armies followed by a sedan chair with armed occupant. In amongst these I will sort out the 3D printed miniatures too.
I am also considering getting some plastic pikes I can get 24 for £5.00 so it might be worth giving them a go as my concern about the metal pikes is that they will snap off the hands or arms if dropped. The plastic may have more flex.
I have also started getting a bit interested in the 2mm stuff again. I may be busy over the weekend!
Well I said I wanted to get him done and I just about managed it this evening…
I still have a bit of work to do on the wolf pelt and a bit of work on his face, but otherwise I am calling him painted. The following is the illustration of the character in the book.
I managed to shear of the sword hilt whilst cleaning up a lump of white metal beside the sword! But it doesn’t look too bad. I was going to rebuild it like I did with Giggers…
But frankly couldn’t be bothered.
Tomorrow I will get him finished and make a start on one of my other ones.
Bogenwald 