End Of The Week - Hurrumpff

It's been a good week. It really has. I now have a lasting, and damaging image of one of my fellow RPG player's characters as being a combination of father Dougal and Cardinal Richelieu's most ineffective musketeer. This has nothing to do with the fact that he put my halfling character in a papoose, whilst trying to find a three legged goblin, in a sewer and tripping over causing my character to land face first in a dead dwarfs crotch. 

Then I made a rookie mistake. I let my daughter write a birthday card for her friend. This took forever, making us late. Having written the card, she realised that she had written the wrong name in it. With only a petrol station on the way, the cards have cost nearly as much as the present.

Still, she had fun dressing up as a dragon. This makes me concerned that she might become a larper. I have done a bit of larping. So I know what it's like. Especially after the game ends for the night. Which is what worries me.

But I digress. This is a figure painting blog. Sleep When I'm Lead right? Or was it Lead Reckoning?Which is a problem as I haven't done anything like as much as I had planned. I am pretty close to where I said wanted to be but I was under promising with a view to over delivering. The first fix is done and I am part of the way through snagging. Some highlighting is still outstanding as is the base colouring on the dismounted figures. It's not like it's as miss is as good as a mile. It progress so it's all good and I can catch up next week. There was some progress with terrain and I had some actual fun gaming. It is possible to brew up a Sherman Firefly with a Panther at 1" range. Seriously if I had gotten any closer I would have bent my barrel but at least I wasn't shot in the arse. I would have been able to do a 180 and line up for the next one but we ran out of time. I also managed to glue together the first batch of 12 minis for the Atomfall ish project and buy a vortex mixer.

There has been some friction with getting the riders primed. I used to have a priming rod and some new style g dub pots with wires stuck out of them, specifically for the purpose. I haven't been able to find either. So I have had to come up with an alternative.

So next week. First I will finish what I have started. Always a good first step. I will then put together at least another eight plastic minis for Atomfall ish. Maybe a few more but not so many that it gets in the way. Sort the bases, prime them, and paint twenty of them. My head tells me not to make another twenty eight so I have stuff for next week, as this will probably take forever. I might order the latest Stargrave offering but I might hold off till Phalanx.

If I get ahead I will look at some terrain. The hexes are calling to me. I now have the deeper hexes for tunnels and trenches. Do I will start with a few test pieces. Precious little daddy daughter time for a fortnight so I will make what I can of it. Hopefully I'm in a place to meet up with a much loved old friend. Times passing, maybe I am getting old, but it feels like they don't make friends like that anymore.