• Did you notice the badge?

Only after I saw a few people shouting about it. Nice touch. I think. I don’t know.

• Do you want any special thing/theme/topic on the next uHH?

Sticking to latest hobby entries makes more sense to me. Firstly, it might act as a kick in the pants for those of us who need such motivation to get stuff done. It also answers the question “what do I need to do to get my stuff featured??” –  just do some work on it and blog away!

• Who drank my coffee!?

I gulped a whole flask of coffee of the beach this afternoon. The sun was out, the breeze was light, but the sea was f@*king freezing! No, it didn’t warm me up. But it helped. Had I been able to reach yours, I’d have had away with it too.

Pledges – I printed some not-Lord-of-the-Rings minis last night, just to keep the smell of resin and IPA fresh in my workshop. I figured they’d be perfect to try out some quick painting techniques; I’ve given myself 90 mins per mini so I guess I’d better get them done before next weekend….

Have we had this one yet?

I’d forgotten how much I liked Terrorvision. Back to the 90s!

I love my Photon printer. It’s been neglected in recent weeks, but it’s just there, patiently waiting to spring into life when called upon. I made a print. I printed a thing.  I printed a few things. For no other reason than the smell of resin and IPA had finally completely faded from inside my workshop and it just didn’t feel right. So I set this running last night and cleaned them up this morning.

So I printed these not-LOTR minis.

So here’s generic pointy-hatted-wizard with beard, oversized armour clad baddie with scary facemask, long-haired elf with cloak, generic small guy with hairy feet, bog-standard human in leather armour and non-descript female witch holding potion. All pretty generic, standard, absolutely non-rights-infringing characters ready to take on a quest in median-earth.

(in all seriousness, my wife has shown absolutely no interest in my 3d printing of late, as it’s all been sci-fi/cyber punk related; she loves LOTR and on seeing these come off the build plate, was heard to say – about the wraith lord I think – “that’s a seriously bad-assed lump of resin”. She finally took an interest in my hobby! Wooo. Maybe we’re on an upward trajectory for our second twenty years….)

That’s me sorted for mini painting for the next few weeks.

1. I did, indeed, notice the badges.

2. Fezzes, obviously.

3. I don’t drink coffee, so don’t look at me.

This week I think I’ll try painting a Bolt Action British 2nd Lt. I have lying around primed. But we’ll see. I’ll be trying to think of a good way to set up a general project log in a nice, easy to look at way.

On the topic of the fez…

Hails all,

Pretty late now but I’ve just finished watching the Weekender while throwing down some washes on my five Skitarii Vanguard. They’re still not assembled yet so just clumps of semi-painted bits right now. Tomorrow I’ll get some detailing done and then glue them into more workable sub-assemblies, might be something worth taking a progress pic of then.

Aside from that I’ve been falling back in love with the Kill Team rulebook. I can build kill Teams from multiple armies I have so I really need to get some scatter terrain painted up. I have heaps of it in boxes and I need to just start grinding through it. Basic paint jobs and weathering galore.

Music today was all over the place.

the one reason I dislike webshops : I always buy ‘too much’ in order to either qualify for ‘free shipping’ or minimize the impact of shipping costs.

Even in regular shops I often think of the money I spent getting there to justify buying ‘moar stuff’, because when travelling costs 10-20 Euro it doesn’t make sense to buy one pot of paint or a single mini …