Yeah, not much got done this evening. My good lady was feeling unwell and with one thing and another I didn’t really get much done.

I did however throw some paint on a horse and also paint the tongues on the Wargs. Whilst looking closely at the horses I realised that some have their tongues sticking out. A bit weird but never mind.

As I said yesterday, today is a public holiday. I went for a run over to the Westside to see my sis and family and it was a really still day. Something nice after a month of on and off gales. Makes for nice reflections 😉.

Hopefully I will get some more things painted tomorrow.

I found Paul on Netflix, I spent most of this evening watching it instead of actually painting. One of my favourite films.

Talking of Netflix, I also watched the new (ish) Robocop. I found that I really liked it, which I wasn’t expecting. And finally my viewing included the first series of the Witcher… I enjoyed it but WTF, how confusing was it. To be fair I haven’t read the books or played the game, but it jumped backwards and forwards across what seemed like decades with no idea whether they were flashbacks, prequels or what… either that or the episodes were out of sync.

Hopefully season two when it arrives will make more sense.

Tonight I managed to get some paint slapped on the Wargs. I roughly followed the same colours as the last lot, but as they were in the shed I wasn’t the. It was a bit of guesswork, but who cares as they are animals and animals are vary rarely exactly the same colours…

There was no printing tonight as the printer decided that it was too cold in there to even give it a try. So instead I did a bit more slicing and did another tile with a pool of water in it. Hopefully I can print one off tomorrow. I really was hoping to make a start on the box for the Meeples but the lack of warmth let me down. Sadly the electric heater in there bought the farm and the gas one needs a cylinder. As it is a Shetland public holiday tomorrow(after what is seen as the main fire Festival today)there will be nothing open in Lerwick.

Tonight was my daughter’s Parents evening. All good there, we never thought there was going to be a problem and it is good that there wasn’t. It was funny watching some of the staff wanting her to take their subject at exam level.

As we got back after 8.30 then there wasn’t really much time to do a lot so I got them based.

This is them all together. It was after I took this photo, I realised that the Wargs and original hero had the base edge painted chocolate brown… the rest I did black!

The issue, if issue is the right word, is that all the rest of them (around sixty or so) were mostly painted by someone else and are more based on the film. I need to paint the rest of the Mordor orks in this style.

I still can’t find the warg riders, so it looks like I am going to have to have a mooch on Ebay to see if I can find another seven as ten is a nice round number 😂.

The other thing I got done tonight is to build this Space Marine …

He is one of the individual hero packs the kids got me for My birthday. Talking of Games Workshop. I found out today that the undead part of the £2.99 magazine I got would cost me £25 in a box. It was even better value than I thought it was

i was going to get the printer running tonight doing some 9 x 9 rooms for my meeple dungeon, but sadly the printer told me it was too cold to print anything ☹️.

I had some more jobs today… spent an awful lot of it swearing but also went to the club… more if that later.

The shower thingy works (in a fashion) hot water pressure is so low that any cold over a trickle causes it to freeze you. On the upside four of us managed a shower tonight instead of us all fighting over a bath.

So after I threw myself in I managed to get some more painting done.

These are almost finished. The Uruk bows went a bit of a weird colour but really only the bases and the back of the shields to do, and the touching up of all of the bits I missed (but that goes without saying… it’s a standard).

So this afternoon three of us had a go at Journeys in Middle Earth.

In the party were, Legolas, Gimli and Beravor (a ranger). We played the first mission. This was simple… hunt the wilds for some pesky bandits. We managed to sort of achieve our aims. We located the bandit camp, but unfortunately we took too long and they saw us coming. We did a lot of things wrong and had to redo things when we realised our error, but we all enjoyed it. When the adventure ended Gimli was down to his last ‘hit point’ and Legolas was about to be eaten by a Wild Warg. Beravor was, I think, up a tree looking for signs of the camp. Luckily that was what we needed to end the session.

Hopefully tomorrow I can get the Uruk finished…. then I am in a quandary… Finish off the Marines, paint 15mm Samurai or make a start on these…

In the box are the heroes of Helms Deep as well as the full Fellowship set…

Or a further option is make a start on the undead GW nasties.

I shall decide tomorrow…

I really didn’t get much done this evening as I sat on the sofa after tea and nodded off. I really had to force myself to get off my backside and to get some painting done.

Pretty much all the plate armour is done, what is really interesting is that the more I get painted then the more bits I missed are becoming obvious.

I am not sure if I will get anything done tomorrow as it is the first of the fire festivals and we are off to my mate’s house to watch the procession and eat hot dogs.

I will post something about it tomorrow.