Started painting again after five hot, sweaty weeks.

"Hot, sweaty"good? Or "hot, sweaty" bad?

Hot, sweaty bad - greasing up metal so paint won't stick.

Ooooh! Nasty!

Enjoy the cooler weather!

Quote from: nikharwood on 17 June 2016, 11:54:57 AM
I think the universe is trying to tell you that it's Friday, Phil, and you should knock off early and take the hounds out for a wander...

If only......Only just had time to take the pack around the fields......What IS spare time ? 

Destroying half the face of one of the models was annoying.....'Cos it was one of the best female faces I've made at this scale....Even tho' I say it myself....I was really chuffed with it....The Gang will like that one, thought I.....Hey Ho !...Such is life.....(Which is something we had to get someone to take away from one of the sheep, this lunchtime  .

The head coming off the other one didn't take long to put right.  ....Not the sheep...The model.

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 17 June 2016, 11:38:18 AM
... as the Dremel slipped, and Techno did cry "B****cks" (VERY LOUDLY) as he first destroyed half a face ...

and verily, he did give up making wee men for the Dark Lord in Middle Borough, and returned to his first love. Then Mrs T found out, so he took to musical theatre ...

The sculptor in happier times


And today

Hmmmmm....

I seem to remember Frank Spencer being even more accident prone, than yours truly.
But did he ever actually injure himself ? 

Cheers - Phil

Another 15 Later Romans done tonight. Shields took an hour by themselves!  That will teach me to try and paint accurate Notitia Dignitatum shields!

Just found LBM shield transfers, but actually, I like the idea of my shields being hand drawn by some poor legionary on punishment duty!
Wonder if they ever used templates?
Then again, as far as we know, the N.D. is a copy of a copy of a copy... Who knows how accurate, or even truthful it is?

Quote from: Leman on 17 June 2016, 04:41:43 PM
Hot, sweaty bad - greasing up metal so paint won't stick.

Isn't that a bit counter-productive on figures?

MickS

8 equites Illyricani. 4 equites Sagittarii, two command figures painted as Illyiricani tonight.
The main upshot of this is Leon is going to get a very random and scattered order (4 of this figure, 5 figures of that) after pay day!

Minor panic at Techno Towers, when the Dremel suddenly didn't want to play. (At ALL)

Check this, check that....Soon pinned it down to the brushes, which had almost worn away to nothing.
No probs, I thought.....I know I bought some spares.....AGES ago.

After 5 minutes of frantic searching in drawers.....I thought...."Did I put them somewhere really sensible....Such as the Dremel's case ?"
Deep joy....And Dr Emel is back reaming away again.

Cheers - Phil

9 (yes 9, I ran out of figures) Auxilia done tonight, a welcome boost to Cohors III Nervionium, attested to be at Maryport in the C3rd AD, but noted as being at Lancaster in the Notitia Dignitatum

Lots many bases sand-pva tonight*.


* For those that don't count in troll, tough!

Or indeed have had a modern comprehensive education.

More AWI today for SP2. French, US Continentals/State Line and some Injuns for the FIW