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As Expected…

I started on some goblins… so as I had these undercoated it wasn’t really a difficult decision …

Now I would have got a whole lot further if I hadn’t have got extremely annoyed by the Aggaros Dunes Contrast paint which had turned to a treacle like consistency. After a bit of swearing this happened…

I was only going to do the Aggaros Dunes, but it was quite relaxing. In the end I had managed fifteen bottles. I basically did what I had in front of me.

I bought a whole box of twenty mini funnels, however I actually only used two as I was doing it at the kitchen table and I was right beside the sink.

I still love my Contrast paint, but as I said in an earlier post I am not so happy at having to dump a pile of paint at £5 a pot.

Hopefully I will get more goblins painted tomorrow.

I hope to also decant some more paint into the bottles.

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Ghouls

This evening I managed to get the ghouls finished…. Well I think I have. I thought I had finished and then realised there was a skull on the base that was unpainted!

There are two distinct colours. This is because there are two units here. this allows me to work out who has lost what casualties in a game.

I started these in October 2022 so, it is about time I got them finished.

Probably goblins next…

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Skeletons Finished

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.

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Skeletal Swordsmen

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.

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Foot Soldiers

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.

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A Pair of Knights

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.

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More Painting

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.

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End of Printing

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.

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Printing not Painting

This evening I was knackered… the poly myalgia does make me tired at times. So rather than lots of swearing as I was trying to paint anything. Instead I went for an easy win and stuck miniatures to bases.

My chap to be is in the front with the boat on the helmet. It originally had a sword in it… but I removed it. Sadly I removed the tail too. I managed to use an old Mordheim archer arm to repair the damaged print (second from left).

I will get these sprayed tomorrow and hopefully get on with the painting.

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A Knight and a Goblin

So this evening I set about adding the metallics to the knight and his pair of foot soldiers. I got a bit heavy handed on the gun metal so looked for anything I could to avoid wasting the paint. I found a box of various bits and found my armoured bear and a couple of goblins. Basically anything that needed a metallic colour got some.

I will hopefully carry on tomorrow and get the shading and highlights done on the armour.

This weekend I am embarking on a project I never though I was going to do…

I am super annoyed that a whole pile of my Contrast Paints have dried up. I maybe haven’t used them for three months and I am going to have to bin a lot.

I used to say I preferred the pots as you can shove your brush in and get the amount you need, but at £4.50 a pot I reckon I have nearly lost £50 worth of paint. Pretty miffed about it to be honest.

So watch this space and listen for my fell voice on the wind as I drop pots, knock over bottles etc.