I don't think my mental health or eyesight or nerves would cope with that

Are these a continuing labour of love to be done as and when, or shall you be cracking through them in the run up to Xmas ready for a game in the snow?!

Pass.

Another club member has a French army all ready to play, but no opponent. I've only got ACW naval that I can offer with the club, so have to join in using other's toys in their games. I'm hoping to get x3 infantry, x1 horse, x1 artillery and x1 officer painted asap so the club can play Honours of War 7YW. Would love to have it done before Xmas, but the deciding factor is my IBS as sitting for long periods buggers up my guts.

Ooo, nasty, that sounds unfun. Can you try a "standing desk"? Apparently they're amazing and brilliant and cure everything. I suspect marketing hype, but you never know. We could probably all do with actually standing up more often (he says, wedged into the Bond villain rotating chair for the next eight hours). Or even one of those "backless stools" with the posture device - where you're knees rest on a pad and have to engage your back and stomach muscles to sit? I had one and it was actually really brill till I discovered you could perch on it differently and completely negated the point of it...

Good luck - HoW is a cracking game!

I checked out standing desks to help my back out, but they are not a cheap option.

Just had a quick shufti at Ikea, and minimum cost is £175?! Ouch. My current desk cost, errr, nowt, as it was from Freecycle

Definitely something I'd want to try out first before I splashed out...

Ouch indeed! Presumably you would also wish to sit at some point, in which case you would have to buy a tall chair (like a bar or breakfast bar stool), which I imagine won't be cheap either.

Well, I could steal one from the breakfast bar.

Derp. There's a thought. I could just repurpose the breakfast bar... although Ms. Toxic might object...

But that might be a cheap option, especially we got ours off fleaBay for about a fiver and petrol

  Yeah. Might be easier nicking it from the breakfast bar - nicking one from a pub could be tricky.

Here's another thought. Instead of splashing out £175, why not just dig a hole in the floor?   

My floor is boards over concrete. I think digger hire would be more expensive. Although doing it with a pick axe might be good exercise

My issue is the need to be moving, as the exercise helps to combat the gastric wind issue and movement allows for wind release! 
[that was the nearest smilie I could find to a noisy fart].

Lack of exercise normally results in the pressurised wind/gas moving onto my chest and restricts breathing, then I end up with my head down the bog dry-retching until I pass the watery-wind/gas combination that had become trapped in my body.

I have stood to paint, in the past. But I've phlebitis in one ankle and the resulting swelling becomes an issue when stationary.

Not that I'm wishing to complain, or turn this thread into a health debate 

Bloody hell Roy, if you were a horse and all that!

Maybe a standing desk on wheels, or possibly a treadmill underneath?! Go for a gentle stroll whilst painting, what could go wrong?

He'd probably slip and break his pelvis!

Very nicely painted figures Roy.

Quote from: Leman on 04 October 2016, 01:59:45 PM
He'd probably slip and break his pelvis!

I've already got an arthritic hip! 

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Thanks Bodvoc.

Just one figure left to paint - drummer + two Ensigns / flags done - then on to varnish and basing.

Load of metal arrived yesterday, enough to do x3 batts, x1 horse, x1 art + limber, officers. With what I've already got, when they're painted I'll have enough to play either side in the St. Ulrich scenario in the HoW book.

Good luck, don't break anything!

St Ulrich is a good little scenario, Roy. I've played it four times now as Prussians v Austrians, including swapping the sides over. It's given a different game every time - great fun!

The first infantry unit is near completion. Just the officer figure, varnishing, and basing left to do.

Here's the three figures (so far painted) belonging the command stand (flags are home made)

Yes Roy, they are hanging sleeves, a leave over from C16th fashion. Originally such sleeves could be buttoned up along the seam to make sleeves to cover the arm.

Thanks Leman. They completely threw me when it came to painting the figure, I couldn't find the answer in my books so just guessed.

Probably I've painted them wrong? But, tough now, as I can live with it and will do any future paint jobs correctly.

Think you have made a pretty good job of those sleeves.