A painting bonanza!!

Had a lovely break in dawlish now back home and thanks to my shift pattern I've had a good few evenings to assault the painting queue!!
First up was the rest of my Test of Honour warband. A samurai, a musician and spearmen (evil long spears i kept stabbing myself on! !).

Half painted spearmen

Spearmen done!

Musician and Samurai

Next up was some spectre miniatures I won way back during the Across the Dead Earth Tournament. (Blog here ). Love these modern CIA types and I'm sure they will find a home in an Across the Dead Earth gang or as dino hunters.

Painting going well

All done

My favourite miniature of the four

After that I had found some resin ammo crates on eBay that were super cheap and I wanted them for scenery in my bunker complex. They quality around the sides wasn't super great but they were cheap ☺

Not rough and ready but they'll do

Next up was the Across the Dead Earth gang the Sisters of Acquisition. I was a little daunted by these models as they are  a smaller scale (different sculptor I believe). Fantastic miniatures but my broken eyes struggle with them lol

The gang awaiting paint

Completed Sisters of Acquisition

My attempt at making the pistols look like they have red dot sights (hopefully gonna get some gloss to give the red a glint and maybe the sniper scope)

There ya go, that's a massive dent in the paint queue!! Have a great day folks

I need to pick up the blog pace!

Sorry it's been so long. Kids have had chicken pox and as ever work. Had an evening with the kids who fell asleep reasonably early so broke out the paint tray that has some 80% finished Test of Honour troops.  Also had undercoated my new Bolt Action British Snipers yesterday so I thought I would paint those as well and my model gunslinger from the last kick starter I backed.

First up finishing off the Test of Honour troops. Only needed a little bit more paint on them.

Then onto the snipers. Checking out the warlord website to see How they painted them for a bit of inspiration and there be a lot of green! !! (Which makes sense really! ) so I did my best and they don't look terrible!

Lastly was the gunslinger from a Icarus Miniatures. I'm planning on using this in Across the Dead Earth as a gang member who just walks around with a hand cannon (a desert eaglen or magnum type gun). He has the sharp shooter skill tree so hopefully he'll be handing out head shots soon ☺.

Been Ages sorry! !!

Sorry I've not posted on ages but been in the real world on holiday with the family. Great relaxing time and even stopped by a shop I discovered called  Wargames in Southport. Great shop and had a mooch round and bought a board game called Hey That's My Fish!
I've seen this game around and wanted it as I thought it would be great to play with the kids (3 and 1 not the targeted age group but I thought they could give it a go).
The game is nice quality  and the penguin counters are awesome.

My favourite penguin ☺

You get four penguins in four colours to make your team up.  The board takes a few minutes to set up

The board is made up of small hexagon tiles

The aim of the game is to collect fish by moving in a straight direction as long as there is nothing blocking you. You take the tile your penguin was just on and put it in your fish store. This obvously leaves holes in the ice flow (the board) which stop movement. Once all your penguins can't move you take all your penguins off the board with the tiles they were on. The winner is who ever has the most fish.

The game in action

As you can see the board gets quite tight

The game was enjoyable and our kids managed to play and enjoy it with a little help. My only real critism is The board is quite fiddly when youbhave to remove a tile. You and up moving the whole board. I'm going to attempt to stick some magnetic tape to each time and play on a metal surface see if that works.
Me and the wife also played Boss Monster  (kids would not get this game). This is a great little card game where you play the evil boss who controls a dungeon with various traps and monsters. The aim is to kill as many heroes as you can. Once you get the rules this game is a brilliant time killer. Plays through in about 15 mins. The cards are brilliant as it's all done in an 8 bit video game style

A pesky hero trying to take the treasure

One of the traps you can use to kill a hero

On returning from holidays and battling the inevitable washing I aimed to put together the Test of Honour sprues my friend had been so awesome to give me. The model were quite fiddly to put together  (a lot of this is my fat uncoordinated fingers)

Spear men. I love the 3 man base

Another lot of Spear men

My standard bearer I love his pose like he's rushing forward unfortunately this out the model off balance and he kept falling over

Soloution to the falling over problem

Some archers!

To go with my three samurai mentioned in a previous blog I now have 9 commoner spear men and 3 archers. I had some more bodies spare on the sprues so I made uo a Sgt, an archery Sgt and a musician.

Sgt and archery Sgt

Muscician

With all this done it was into basing next. My good friend had some basing material he had made up  (using pet store items I believe ) left over so passed me a tub of it. Most greatly received! !!! Thank you Alex! .
This stuff looks awesome on the bases.

Basing away!

All based

Had to base the 3 man base so they all match

Last thing I've done this week is undercoat then.

That's all for now have a great one!!!

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