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Big Beasty Rider

Tonight I had training and then had to pick my daughter up from her drama so I really didn’t have time, or rather inclination, to paint anything. So instead I built things…

We have a couple of cold ones, which to be brutally honest I think look a bit naff compared to the older velociraptor looking ones. The skink is posed on the BB and I also decided to build the saddle for the hero. I decided to build it just to see if it would fit on the dinosaurs I have… and look at that. It actually fits perfectly.

Okay it isn’t as big and impressive as the GW one but it would mean I have another Big Beasty in my army. Obviously I would give it a respray. I reckon I have another theropod or two knocking around the place which may work too. If I got him on the same sized base as the blue one he might look a bit bigger (if that makes sense).

Tomorrow I hope to finish off the rest of the Cold Ones.

Today, on the way to work, I had a bit of a run in with some nature. I noticed something out of the corner of my eye and realised a red grouse was flying alongside the car. I slowed down and the bloody thing darted in front of the windscreen. As it was icy I couldn’t slam on the brakes so we had a few moments of his bum feathers touching my windscreen before he veered off and I slowed down enough.

Here he is… I wound the window down and he went ballistic, it was almost as if he was swearing at me…

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Big Beasty Finished…Almost

So tonight I decided to try and get this finished. It was mainly the metalwork and collar decoration.

John suggested a darker colour for the collar so I went with the Tin Bitz. I thought it looked good, so a lot of the metalwork was done with this and Dwarf Bronze. Some gold was used on the dangling decorations.

I still need to do something with the teeth as they pretty much blend in with the yellow. Apart from that and the base I am calling this pretty much done (may do some highlighting). I just have to work out with what.

Next up will be the skink rider so that I can get it finished.

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Big Beasty with Straps

I didn’t get much done tonight, but I did get the straps started…

I still have to decide what colour to do the collar. There will be some gold, but I think a solid gold one will look a bit naff.

I should be able to get some more done tomorrow night.

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Multi-coloured Big Beasty II

I did a little bit more work on the big lizard today. I could have done a lot more but I spent a bit too long playing in the console.

This morning I spent far too long playing Hunter Call of the Wild. I have pretty much finished all of the mission arks bar two I think.

It is such a gorgeous looking world, I just keep going back to it. Like this morning (in game) I was in Yukon and watched the sun rise over the landscape. Almost forgot to shoot anything 😂.

This is just a random in game shot, I forgot to save the screenshot I took to somewhere useful.

Anyway after that, I got a bit of painting done…

So, this is where she stands now. I would have got even further forward except that my son reminded me that I had promised that I would reinstall one of my older games and he duly went and got it then ordered me to play something so that he. Old watch.

He chose Horizon Zero Dawn, so I went from hunting moose and bison this morning to hunting watchers and strides this evening.

Horizon Zero Dawn has to be up there in my top 10 games. Probably somewhere in the top 5 to be honest. It was so different from anything I had played before. I am starting from scratch again so it may mean a few nights of cursing as I don’t have the full skill tree like before 😂.

So tomorrow, I hope to crack on with the lizard and try and get it finished.

On a total aside, I have ordered some new ground cover from Geek gaming as I wanted something different from my usual Patchy plains as it doesn’t really shout fantasy rainforest.

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Multi Coloured Big Beasty

Today I did indeed manage to get some more done on the Theropod. Not as much as I would have liked, but some progress is still progress.

I decided to add a contrast stripe between the blue and yellow. It was originally going to be just red, but I decided to leave a white border and kind of liked it. Bottom line is…if I don’t like it I can repaint it. It still looks weird with all the other white showing, but once that has gone then I can make my decision as to keep it or not.

The black lines on the sail are for a bit of extra shading in the recesses. It is going to be dark blue, so I wanted them to be a darker in the recesses.

There are still some bits around the claws that need filling in. I decided to go for he claws, my original idea was a bone colour, but black seemed more suitable, plus this chap has them too!

He was going to be a mount for my hero, but he does seem a little underwhelming. I think I might have something a bit bigger and in a better pose. I will have to check.

I also managed to fire up the printer again today….

Here we have a double width demon gate and some Dwarven statues… I also managed to print some levers as well as some more packing crates.

I might see if I can find a suitable scary Beasty as a mount, if not Sleich will work out a bucket load cheaper…. Gw version £50.00 (to be fair with a rider) … I already have the rider, saddle and reins. I just need something to ride.

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Beasty with some Colour

I pretty much managed to spend all of today up, with a slight need for a lie down in the middle of the day.

So it looks like I am on the mend.

I managed to get this sprayed yesterday (or it might have been this morning) but anyway I started throwing paint onto it.

There is a mountain of tidying up to do, as well as some camouflage, but at least it is started. As you might have guessed, I didn’t do anything on the Wargs. The Good news is that my good lady has officially told me that I mustn’t over exert myself. So tomorrow shall be a lazy day painting miniatures. Huzzah!

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Unclean, Unclean

Well I have just been out to paint a cross on the door as people in here are dropping like flies. Feeling a bit wobbly myself ☹️

Anyway I did manage to get some paint onto the Wargs and riders.

I remembered to do the bases edges brown this time as well as getting some bits and pieces painted on the riders too.

Hopefully I will get some more done tomorrow night and I don’t come down with what the rest of them in here have/have had.

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Trying out the New Paint

With my good lady still feeling poorly (flu) I have been on horse and family taxi duty. Today whilst my daughter was in film club, I decided to have a look and see which Contrast paints might be handy. I used these to give me some ideas…

So I made a bit of a small list over a cup of tea and a rather dry scone then went hunting for the paints I felt Might be useful.

My mini list was thus.

Creed camo

Cygor brown

Darkoath flesh

Dark angels green

Apothecary white

Lo and behold, I found them all (which is extremely rare).

So I had a bit of a play with them this evening.

I will have a further play with them tomorrow…

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Wargs… a Smidge Forward

Tonight I did their teeth and made a start on a couple of the rides of Rohan.

Most of the family is or has been unwell the last couple of days…hopefully it will avoid me.

I will possibly make a start on the ork riders tomorrow.

The temperature rose enough for the printer to start up again. I printed off some prison bits as well as a stocks and a brazier.

I am in the process of printing off the top of the dungeon box, it was meant to be the bottom, but I mixed them up. It should be ready tomorrow morning.

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Wargs with Tongues

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.