Tonight I sat myself down and got to work on the skeletal knights. I fully didn’t intend to do a great deal. I stuck Men in Black on Netflix as some background noise and away I went,..
I got this far. Bridles, pennants, the standard and the leader’s scabbard to do. A bit of work on the base and they will be pretty much done.
Major Storm warning for tomorrow. Probably the reason for all the helicopters flying around with telegraph poles over the last week.
Tonight I did a smidge of painting…
I probably would have got a lot more done, but my eldest and I bought Baldur’s Gate 3.
The red one among them is for the vampire.
Tonight I decided to get these finished. It was really just the iron boots on them all and a blast around to try and hit any white spots.
I also sprayed the skeletons and rock chuckers. I think I will do the skellies first. I may have to support the horses to avoid the flexible resin droop.
Actually thinking about it, I have a couple of space frogs that I undercoated. So I might as well do these alongside the skeletons.
Tonight I got busy on the computer and really couldn’t be bothered to paint anything. So instead I glued miniatures to bases.
I will get these sprayed tomorrow.
Tonight I did some work on the archers.
I would say, I am getting there.
Tonight I had to bottle some white paint…
Yes the lid on my Skull white eventually gave up the ghost so an intervention was required. Well it was that or bin it. As the caption above says… I didn’t spill it. In fact I lost none.
Tonight I decided that enough was enough and forced myself to sit down and paint. I got this far with the archers…
I quite like the blue/grey of the hoods. Still a long way to go, but progress is still progress.
I also found the missing skeletal horseman… he was hiding with more goblins.
There are half a dozen rock chuckers and a poor goblin trying to pacify a giant frog. The ones with the rocks are basically the swamp goblin equivalent to the Night Goblin fanatics.
I have noticed of late that the steroids aren’t seeming to be stopping the pain from the poly myalgia. The doctor is bumping me back up a mg to 9mg to see if that helps. Fingers crossed. Luckily I am now on my October break… Wooohooo 🥳.
So after the multitude of Goblins, which I haven’t touched for two days, what will be next?
Well I think I will go back to the undead. I remembered the Skeleton cavalry so they will be undercoated ready to go once the goblin archers are done.
The more observant of you will notice there are seven mounts and only six riders… this is a puzzle to me too. Somewhere a skeleton is missing his horse.
To be honest I could have based a dozen halberd armed goblins, but these should be quicker.
The vampire on the left should be mounted on a zombie dragon thing, but when I printed her, I really couldn’t be bothered with the faff of another big thing.
This evening I managed to get the Goblins I have been painting finished, well I though I had until I saw the photo and noticed more white than an explosion in a Tippex factory.
I also used any spare paint on a frog rider and a shaman/leader and then I had a bit of a sneeze whist pouring out a drop of flesh coloured paint for the frog’s mouth… then this happened…
The bottom eight were in a box that was going to use for a One Ring game. In my mind these are the worst goblins ever…I mean what happened in the sixty years from these ones to the ones in the Lord of the Rings… I know they grow fungus in the Misty Mountains, but was some of it penicillin… never mind I digress.
Tomorrow I will get back on with the Highland Miniatures bow armed goblins.
After a week of hunting for a box full of miniatures, I knelt down in the passage and voila, there it was on top of another box.
I worked on the rest of the Goblins this evening. I cracked on and seemed to achieve very little. I got to here ( plus work on the bow goblins).
I had fully intended to get these finished, but sadly failed to meet my self imposed deadline.
In the back you can just about see the unit musician with his gong. The leader in the foreground was painted about a year ago.
So this is my unit with hand weapons. The missing miniature box has a unit with pole arms. So once this lot and the bow armed ones are finished I will move onto the pole arms.
I am pleased that I am getting back into regular painting.
I had a busy old morning putting the battens up to take the cladding. It absolutely wrecked me. I spent the rest of the day feeling knackered. I did manage to get some paint thrown onto some of the goblins.
I am doing the green from the hoods as the tunics for the archers. I didn’t bother photographing them as they are just in the skin and tunic.
Bogenwald 