Well if Geek Club has one personal thing going for me, apart from the warm fuzzy feeling, then it forces me to sit down and paint for about forty minutes.
Today I managed three miniatures. Two adult males and another child.
I still need to get the bases done as well as sort out the belt buckles on the three males.
So the two males on the right and the girl in blue join the rest.
I really do enjoy painting a nice simple miniature!
Yes eventually I got my finger out and picked up a paint brush and got the ghost bride up to the basing stage.
I think the ideas in my head transferred to the miniature. In fact I think it is an improvement on my own original one. For one thing I was a bit more adventurous in adding other colours.The red eyes are not evil in my mind… just the poor lass has been stood up at the alter and cried a great deal.
Funny I went green with my original and blue with the latest one.
You would imagine that after a week of the white stuff then I might have got a bit sick of it… out in the wild – yes! In the kitchen on miniature bases… not so much, but as I really dislike doing bases then … I might have to sit on the fence
So I forgot to take the photo at 15.00 today to compare the snow… this was taken up my track though!
Well this afternoon I finished the knights. I decided on the maroon/purple for the white bits. I wanted to add a brighter colour to give them a bit more oomph. I had originally thought to go with red, but I reckon I chose the correct colour. you can see the one I was thinking of to the left of the second photo.
Tonight I am off to the club to get trounced, I mean play another game of Grimdark Future.
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.
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 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…
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.
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.
Bogenwald 