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Managed to get a few bits done this week for the squirrel vs orc game:
- WWS dead trees – nice a large as they are for 28s
- Alternate Armies ruins – more 15s than the 20s from Splintered Light but fine for ‘scatter’
I may add a bit of the moss and ground flock to the tree stumps – not sure yet.
The big stump I had planned to paint is in a “safe place” (ie I cannot find it) so these stumps are stand-ins as a target area for the raid.
And so the Palaeo game is not left out I completed the second pond:
I also went a bit mad after the news of the woodworking and decided that a hone base was required so built a small group of buildings for the tribe to occupy:
complete with garden:
and ancestor(s):
Two games spring to mind:
- A mammoth after some tasty food – possibly a solitary male going by this article in sci-news
- Recovering the grandparents after a wolf attack
Now the electrics are done (we have heat downstairs in time for winter) and carpets being sorted I’ve just got the gunk on the hall wall to sort and I can play a game or two. I actually dug out Ogre the other day – a fair amount of plastic to build (I have the Kickstarter set amongst other bits) but had to find the early rules (sadly cut up 3rd edition from ’77) as the GEV & minis set are too deep for me currently.
If you get a chance to have a game with Mike JUMP AT IT – you would have to travel miles for such a gracious / courteous host.
Bless ya cottons!
Way back in July 2021 (gasp) I showed the Lincolnshire flag as being the colours I wanted to paint the blocks in and today I actually changed the green to match a little better!
Looking at the pic, a few (top right) may get another coat this afternoon but TBH they look fine on to the eye. Now to find the rules and summary sheet etc!
Blowing the dust off some of the paints I did find a lot of the cheap eBay painting balls have rusted over the years:
Not sure if this will impact the paints or not – the ball still seams to be in the bottle (no way to extract easily) – anyone any idea?
Fortunately, most of the paints have Army Painter balls in them but I really need to check the lighter colours…
Next up the test Ogre minis and base up some Palaeo figures (inc doggies) for undercoating and painting. As I have not found my missing hero yet I think a set of simple quest rules for the map is a winter project – they can go hunting for The Spear of The Ancestors 🙂
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Ogre Heavy Tank – green is shiny and it’s not the best pic! but gives you an idea:
I had forgotten how dark paints look on 6mm tanks (it being nearly 45 years since I painted any) but I’m happy with the result.
I’ve also dug out a MY Minis Elasmotherium to eat the vegetables in the little homestead. As per normal with MY figs, they are not the most detailed but this will do fine as a challenge for the folk:
He is a BIG brute – 6cm tip of horn to end of the tail. Need to get a base ordered as I have nothing of that size. Sadly, he is way bigger than my mammoths – they will have to be pigmy ones if they are on the table at the same time (I know, these beasts where 15 foot in length IRL but still out of scale).
Got a bit of painting done for Palaeo Diet.
First up is the largest opponent so far who will be looking to nibble on the garden:
and the ‘brave’ (still to be proven) defenders:
I also got the wolves lair sorted:
I decided that basic flesh was boring so added a few tribal markings that will help identify the figures on-going. Still no sign of the missing man – but I’ve decided he has gone fishing (her indoors complaining over the bugs in the roof of the new house) for now 🙂Very pleased with the lair – it’s a 3D print and despite a lack of texture it will go very nicely in the game.
Still need a bit of time to complete the bases (decided to paint the edges black) and add a coat of varnish but that can wait till I’ve ordered and received the bases for the larger figures in store…
Did absolutely zero on the blocks felt – got a bit carried away with the brush this week! At least the felt does not need the table clearing so I may slide that in next week and be ready to game in December.
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