I wanted to grab my airbrush....but I can't find them.
Fine, I'll use spraycans....but I can't find my AK Putty.
Fine, I'll order some online so it is here tomorrow. None left in the entire country.
Fine, I'll use masking tape and just get very annoyed. And then the first spray came out powdery.
For the love of.....
Anyway, much frustration later the basics are done.
Only final cleanup is now left, and the hope that tomorrow we have more agreable weather so I canprime and maybe get the first layer of camo on.
Took the girls and a friend to Crisis 2025. For some reason, this year parking was even worse than last year, but after a few ever increasing circles we found a spot in the local area. We arrived around 10:30 so and we could walk right in (after paying of course. Fee was 15 per person but kids under 14 are free, so next year it will be the last time the girls are free, after that I'll have to pay up).
Basically the same layout as last year, and shops in roughly the same location as well. Lots of familiar faces, some small chats here and there. Shops could be shorthanded to Paints and Tools, Kits, 3D Prints and a few shops with mixed stuff. Focus is, as usual, mostly on 28mm, so lots of Warlord etc.
Plenty of bargains to be had....Battlefront was 40-50% off in a lot of places, even relatively new plastic boxes. But that is what you get for not listening to your buyers, retailers etc and thinking you know best. Great for me though as I picked up some items for AK-47 and other 15mm projects.
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| 50% discount so 45 euros for 9 T-72A's, 2 Hinds and decals. In hindsight I should have skipped this one, though I'll turn some of the T-72's into blasted wrecks for TW:2K someday.. |
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| 16 euros for a entire Kompanie. Should work fine for a Socialist backed yet unnamed African country to oppose Wadiya |
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| Mortars for either AK army, and Belgians that will end up as UN or better quality troops. Both again 50% off. |
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| Only 10% off, but 2 BTR-152's and 4 Saracen Armoured Cars. The BTRs can go with the East Germans, the Saracens will go into the Apartheid faction box for later. Might use one though for the Wadiyan Police to go with the police jeep I made (but never finished) for another Group Build. |
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| More Vallejo washes as I have been using these a lot and Russian Uniform spray primer for the 3mm tanks I need to prime. I also added some washes I did not have yet to try out. |
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| Just for the artwork and background. Could not pass up for a fiver, bandnew. |
Back home, I crashed out. I was totally spent, but it was a good day. Tomorrow a short trip to my folks who are babysitting a friends house and then back home again for some proper rest. I have a very busy week ahead of me with deadlines
The printed version of the rules arrived today. Time to make a few test bases for it in 3mm.
I have an open house 2 nights a week. One week it's board games on tuesday, and hobby night on thursday, the week after tuesday and thirsday are both hobby nights.
Tonight was a hobby night. Mirella is making nice progress on her H0 scale church, Sjors has decided to stop buying GW stuff and move to Gunpla as he just doesn't like painting, and I planned out next week to get my group builds done in time. With 3 days of just not being here I'm cutting it really, really close. Even more so as I've hurt my wrist, again.
The flight stand insert hardend during the night....but of course not before tilting. Luckily with my method that is not really an issue. All the externals are on except the mounts for the rocket pods, and I need to grab those pods from one of the kits in the attic. Needs to be done and primed by monday evening so I can bluetack it and do the rest of the sprays, then decals and detailling. Update the decals, etc. Fun.
The New Life teaster shot of where I am now:
Right, I could not find the proper plugs I used to use in 3, yes, 3 DIY's. They don't seem to make that type anymore? So I resorted to grabbing a length of aluminium tubing of roughly, cutting the hole and adding a nice blob of Brown Stuff and shovving the tube right in. More puttyy for the front, the gaps and the hole for the radio antenna (I always leave those off as they will break eventually) and now to let the lot dry. Tomorrow smooth out with Milliput, insert and glue in the proper magnet inside the tube. Then glue on the exterior parts and repeat filler timethe next day till she is ready for priming. Gotta keep going as the end date is soon.....
Basics are done. This covers an area just shy of 3x3 feet, so a table all by itself. Now to pack it all up as the kids are back tomorrow, and then next week add some minor gritting etc and prime it.
