Well this evening I got on and painted the bases using Greenstuff World Skeleton Brown.
Tomorrow I will get the rims painted.
Oh I will need to get the gesticulating archer’s skin painted.
I also need to finish the knights on the flank.
Yeah I am just about done with the guards.
Everything is painted apart from the bases. These haven’t been done yet as the ground texture paste is still wet.
As you can see I also added the paste to the knights as I had it open. Sadly I couldn’t be arsed to get it on the civilians.
Well I decided that not being arsed wasn’t good enough, so I kicked said arse and got the paste onto the civilian bases.
Some straps and belts to do as well as facial hair and the usual unfinished base.
This evening I worked on my guards. Metal and skin left to do I believe…
A little scamp informs the guards what he thinks about the proclamation regarding an increase in taxes.
I’ll carry on with these tomorrow.
Well I got a start on the military types this evening
The guards are from the Guards employed by Lord Grennith. He is one of the five rulers of Traitor’s Toll.
The knights in the back are… random…. But have a lot of red, yellow and blue…can’t think why!
Well these were a bit quick… All done in a short time
A Goose girl, Flautist, Bloke with a snake and a posh lady with evil intent, either that or she is about to chop vegetables.
I have more Undercoated ready for tomorrow.
They will probably take longer as they are a mix of knights and Guards so will need their livery done.
This evening I managed to get these pretty much finished apart from the bases.
Managed to get to 22.30 without a nap today so I think I have turned a corner.
I am definitely a few twinkles short of a rainbow at the minute so I really didn’t fancy doing anything at all. As you can imagine I really had to force myself to get these progressed.
Can you tell that I hadn’t realised that I basically had the same bloke with a bag. Thankfully their lower halves are different. One is barefoot and the other has trousers and boots. The rear one also carries a pickaxe.
So I made a start on the undercoated lot from yesterday…
Made a start on five, nine left to go.
I was in our scrap store today, a charity organisation that employs adults with learning difficulties. I saw this interesting box…
Hopefully I will carry on painting tomorrow…
Well this evening I decided to do a few more townsfolk for Traitor’s Toll.
So from left to right we have… A lady with sickle and wheat (not quite sure why… Maybe a window box or something) a fishmonger, some raggedy arsed man with a sack, a dude holding out a snake (the mind boggles… Maybe he is doing an act where he shoves it down his trousers) and finally we have a young lady playing a flute.
Now there are only five unique bodies in the set, but with plenty of heads and arms then really no two should look alike, same body, different figures.
Because they looked so different in the photo I actually had to check that it was the same body. In fact there are a couple of aprons as well as the mantels that can oomph them up even more.
Well after whining about not having the right magnets I decided to splash out and purchase some 3×1 mm ones to fit the holes I have. As I was ordering them I decided to get five parsecs from home as my son is more interested in sci fi than fantasy.
I have a Stargrave box of miniatures as well as a pile of other stuff so we should be able to get going over the Christmas break.
As I said in an earlier post I have decided to downsize the collection. Anything with no interest is going the journey.
So off the top of my head… Staying are the 15mm armies I have, ditto with the 10mm and 6mm.
I will keep my hundred years war and Celts in 28mm as well as the stuff for Five Leagues and The sci-fi stuff for playing with James.
My bookshelves and boardgames are also going to get a radical cut. I live in a tiny house and don’t have the room for a shit load of stuff.
I have asked for a book on the Italian Wars for Christmas. No miniatures this time, well not exactly true I ordered three frames of cultists to become baddies for Five Leagues etc.
So starting soon I will be offering stuff to Thule gamers and thence to eBay. Wish me luck. Some of this stuff I have had for 30 years.
