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Another Ten Done

Well by done I mean they have paint on them. Still teeth and muscle bits to do if I can be bothered.

Last of the small miniatures

I still have this lot to do though….

Time to bring out a larger brush.

Basically I have four days left to do the big beasties (on my self imposed deadline).

I am hoping that I can crack on tomorrow. Luckily I am not using a lot of colours (well done past me)!

Well that’s the hobby bit out the way…

As some of you may know, I am a principal of a small school. Sadly it has got too small and as such the council is deciding our fate on Monday. Thankfully the staff will be redeployed, but we are still losing the team as we will all be split up. This has been a major stress for the past few months.  In the words of someone senior to me…”it’s Shit!”

So my deadline for Sunday night is there as I may not feel like carrying on on Monday.

Non whiny post will return tomorrow.

We went gallivanting on Sunday and had a close run in with an otter. Guess who didn’thave his big camera.

At one point we were about 20 metres from him/her.

I have some out and about videos that needs putting onto YouTube. Hopefully they will be done soon too.

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Painting Little Things….

Lots of little things:

For some reason I must have thought the beetle platform was about 6 inches square rather than the inch and a half that it probably is!

Still bucket loads to follow on this lot, but it is a start.

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Slow Progress on the Beetle

Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.

The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.

Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…

Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!

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Working on the Beetle

Last night I got a dry brush of copper over the beetle. This evening I did a bit more work on the saddle and seat for the driver (?)  Perhaps mahout?

It is slowly coming together… I might have to sort out that front leg a bit. I can’t remember it looking that shiny though. Could be camera flare?

I had a go at the GW plastic orks at Geek Club (not sure what they are called now.. probably  GW-orks!)

I really do not like them. Not sure why, but definitely not for me. I only painted them as I had forgotten to take my stuff in!

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Desert Haulage Firm

This evening I worked on the saddle for the pack beetle.

The decorations still need doing as well as a lot more goods. There is definitely a lot less white visible. Still a long way to go but I am getting there. I was thinking of going down a muted route for the saddle, but then I thought about camel saddles, so colourful it became.

The biggest issue I have is that the beetle has almost become invisible. Okay it wasn’t the best set up for the photo, but I am thinking of doing a gloss varnish on the living thing.

Hopefully I will get it finished soon…. Still got to come up with a base for it.

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Not So Shiny Beetle

You know sometimes you have an idea, execute said idea and kaboom something amazing appears

There are other times when the kaboom is a pile of poop. Can you guess where this us going?

So yesterday I posted shiny beetle…

I decided to paint over the shinyness and went for a nice green… Sat looking at the green, then got out a pretty purple, sat looking at the purple then got out a red… did I choose any of those nice colours? Did I buggery! No, captain brain dead here went for this….

Okay it isn’t a total balls up, but it definitely isn’t what was in my head. It may grow on me, but sadly the nice shiny bits will be covered by the saddle! The one in the background is demonstrating what this one will eventually look like.

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Pretty Colours

Flippin’ heck I achieved more painting this evening and got the Spyre Gang up to the shiny gold decorations.

There is still stuff to do on these, well I want to do more on the, but if I wanted to I could call these done.

I am seriously thinking of just using my gold Sharpie to make them shiny 🪙🪙🪙🪙.

I may of course may change my mind 😉.

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Managed Some Painting

Well I made a start on a pair of the Erroish in Geek Club yesterday and managed to get them finished this evening. I also worked on the Spire big guy, and the other three for that matter

The big guy still needs the decoration done on his armour. I have decided to go for Gold as I feel this befits a super rich, nasty bully.

These are my pack beetles…

The saddles also had some failures, you can see an obvious one on the end of the front strap… Well actually it is a decorative border. But hey, either way it will get the Greenstuff  remedy.

Hopefully I will feel up to a bit more of the same tomorrow.

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A Bit of Painting

Well I actually managed to get a tiny bit of painting done this evening.

I went for the unbased one to begin with.  He is going to have either red or yellow on the chest and knees.

The other two miniatures are for my youngest.  These two were the ones that failed yesterday. I did a plate re level and it worked fine second time around.