Well this evening I faffed about with some more of the Mantic Skeletons (thanks for the confirmation) I now have ten of the skinny chaps..
As you can tell I haven’t got around to finding a plug head for the light box.
These are now on the Wargames Atlantic circular bases to match the rest of the skirmish troops.
I still have another ten on the sprue as the ten. will do for Five Leagues.
I have the giant printed undead army for bigger games, plus these are too small to fit in.
Well I have done very little over the past few days…so little in fact that sod all would be a better description. Didn’t even get around to getting the light box out.
I did however manage to glue some skeletons together…
Now I have an inkling that these are early Mantic. Really not sure. The majority come in two bits, legs with back then chest and rest.
They do fit in better than GW ones with the Wargames Atlantic stuff I have been building of late. The ones with an open hand can either be given a spear or sword.
A few of them have a separate weapon arm and head choice.
Well I got a parcel in the post today. It pretty much used up half of my Christmas pennies.
As you might recall I have one or two knightly types and their retinues. I have been trying to get their designs on their shields, banners and other bits and pieces.
They have been waiting an absolute age, this is a small amount of the force.
But over a while I have been after some reusable stamps and eventually Goblin Hobbies have added the UK to their shipping destinations.
So here is what came in the box…
Two plates, two colours, a scraper and a stamping tool.
The set wasn’t the most expensive thing ever… Tax and postage raised it a fair old bit.
Now Goblin Hobbies is an American company and when I saw the shipping and tax at that price I thought it must be coming direct from the states. I was wrong. Not sure how I feel about it to be honest.
I was wanting to get going as soon as it came, but I am writing this now rather than later as I was worried I might fall asleep. So will give it a bash this weekend.
Still waiting on the other half of my Christmas cash spending to arrive.
Think back on your most memorable road trip.
Well I reckon the best ever Road trip was when I was in the Polish lancer reenactment group.
We drove from Northumberland in the UK to Ciechanow in Poland. Was an epic road trip via Berlin and Warsaw on the way out and Leipzig and somewhere else on the way back (was too tired to remember where… It had Windmills and tulips though).
In fact my musket ball came from Leipzig
So in the first here I am (nearest the camera) after trying out a couple of mounts before the big day, technically we should be wearing our stable trousers. But we evidently aren’t.
So in the second in full dress uniform and so is the horse. I haven’t got the lance in this photo.
Here I am twirling my lance…
This was another road trip to Boulogne and that was a bloody nightmare.
Well I never, the mini lightbox worked fine. As I was trying to do other things then I just used one coloured insert. I picked blue as it was on the top.
So here are my ten fanatics in their (hopefully) well lit glory…
Whatever it is, it is a hell of a lot better than this…
Or this now I come to think of it…
The box itself is about a foot square. As you can see above it’s not too bad for up to a dozen miniatures.
Obviously I will have to have a proper test with all of the coloured backgrounds as well as the different light settings.
Well I actually remembered this. It was left in the car and it was windy and rainy so I thought sod it, I will test it tomorrow when I find a USB plug…
Yep that is the price I paid for it… It had better work or I will be down £2.
While I was there I noticed a little bag of toys and it reminded me of a post I read yesterday about Britains’ aliens ( I think it was Roger’s Post) ..
It had the good guys and bad guys lol…
Well in an earlier post I said I had asked for a book for Christmas.
This was it..
I had been looking at it for a good while but it was a bit too much for my pocket money so asked for it for my present.
Yes it is the first Friday in January and that means the ship burning, torch waving and dressing up season has begun…
Scalloway is the first to kick the season off.
What are your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life?
I am honestly not sure, ask me in 500 years!
Well the snow is still here…
But with freezing rain rolling in, who knows what tomorrow will bring.
Anyway I eventually plucked up courage and said goodbye to Ark. It was a bit sad really as I made some really good mates on there but it is time to move on. So after getting annoyed at idiots on Hell Let Loose I decided to do something model wise.
So I went and found the five remaining cultists and built them…
So here they all are slavering, baying at the moon and waving the odd severed limb around in the back.
Now the one thing that has always confused me about this set is the chainsaw in a fantasy collection. Obviously the set could be used in a more modern setting, but for me I never thought I would ever have a use for it… Until this evening!
The arms perfectly fit and EM4 ganger. I purchased a couple of sets for Five Parsecs, and voila, ganger with a noisy close combat weapon.
I haven’t been totally lazy… I decided to help my daughter with her Lego set she got a couple of years ago…
Ye gods this thing is a penance. This is about six or seven hours of work and I am nowhere near finished.
So Friday tomorrow and I intend to do the four remaining hangers and get things on bases.
Bogenwald 