Injured...

Not much progress at the moment, as most of the time I'm sitting with my right foot elevated.

I strained my ankle Monday afternoon, stepping on a log while I was using my chainsaw to cut up some trees I felled in our back garden (they were shadowing the vegetable garden).

Well, well, lesson learned, I guess... always clear the work area along the way!

Sumthin's Cookin'...

I am preparing the second half of my second brew, while I'm enyoying a small glass of the first. Mead is a drink for gods!

10 liters of water, each with a bit less than 3 kg honey, and an extra pot with water to fill up the fermentation tank, should the honeywater not be quite enough.

A fourtnight ago, I made a yeast culture the evening before I boiled the first half of the brew, and it has been bubbling away ever since.

Almost boiling...

Waiting for the rest.

Producing mead is a very easy process, you just have to have the patience (which can be hard, when you've first tasted the results).

Some day, I'll get my recipe translated and put up here, somewhere, for any interested parties to try out as they wish.

Another Giant Vermin.

I finished painting this little critter (actually the size of a St. Bernard). I didn't want to post it in the LPC, as it would be the second in a row, but as I need it for my Cult de Ghouls for VuK, I had to get it done while I still had the Secret Fire running in my veins.

As you can see, I painted a more realistic snout on this one (and I actually also redid the snout on the first one to match).

Primer: Black

Fur

1. VOC Shadow Grey + Black, 1/3 or so
2. VOC Shadow Grey + Black
3. VOC Shadow Grey + Black, 3/1 or so.

Skin

1. OC Tanned Flesh + OC Pallid Flesh
2. OC Tanned Flesh + OC Pallid Flesh, 1/2
3. OC Pallid Flesh

Eyes and Teeth

• WZ Legionaire Flesh

Happy Birthday to Me...

This cake, as decorated by my eldest daughter, tells its own tale of ageing...

Fortunately, I have plenty of homebrewed mead to make the day bearable ;o)

My daughters also baked chocolate muffins for coffee, so we had plenty of stuff to eat when I returned from 8 hours of work.

My youngest daughter had sewn me a felt spectacle case for my reading (or painting) glasses, while the eldest had bought me another assortment box for my X-Wing and Attack Wing stuff.

My wife gave me 3 t-shirts, and this assortment of SAGA minis.

• Brodir of Man
• Ragnar Lothbrok
• Maredudd ab Owain (shouldn't that be 'ap'??)
• Harald Hardrada
• Hereward the Wake
• Alfred the Great
• Anglo-Danish Huscarls (axes)

My in-laws gave me this, to store these



















When it has been assembled like this:

This coming weekend I'll be brewing the second half of my 2nd batch of mead, and visiting an exhibition at Nyborg Castle showing one of the world's largest private collections of LotR Trilogy movie paraphernalia with the kids, so I won't have much time for assembly, but there'll be other occations for that!

2014-02-19, Lovecraftian Painting Circle: Giant Vermin.

Got this little blighter finished today.

Pic seems a little over-exposed (or just taken with too much light, which I don't understand, as I used my usual setup).

The mini is a Warhammer Quest plastic rat.

I realized after painting it, that the snout should have been all pinkish, and not black, I may correct it alongside painting the next one, which I hope to finish by the weekend.

When the second rat is done, I only have to paint 2 degenerates, and I'll have the Cult de Ghouls I've planned for Von unaussprechlichen Kulten. I then still have to put a little more paint on the Cult Leader for the Dagonites (Pulp Figures Crimson Scorpion) that got stalled some time ago.

I expected to finish my Death Cult second, but the LPC is still running, and it was a great oportunity to get some monsters painted up.

Primer: Black

Fur

1. OC Graveyard Earth + Black
2. OC Gracveyard Earth
3. OC Graveyard Earth + OC Bleached Bone

Skin

1. OC Tanned Flesh
2. OC Tanned Flesh + OC Pallid Flesh
3. OC Pallid Flesh

Eyes and Teeth

• WZ Legionaire Flesh

2014-02-16, Lovecraftian Painting Circle: Ghoul King.

This guy took up all my hobby time for the last 11 days, so I'll just  let the pics talk for themselves for now.

This mini is a large guy on a 40mm base, so he counts as 2 finished minis for my tally. Only fair, methinks - I even put a little something on his base for decoration, which I'm not in a habit of doing...

Primer: Black

Skin

1. F Moss Shade
2. F Moss Shade + F Moss
3. F Moss
4. F Moss + F Moss Light

Exposed Entrails

1. V Black Red
2. C Khorne Red

Bandages

1. C Ushabti Bone + White
2. OC Devlan Mud wash
3. Light drybrush C Ushabti Bone + White

Exposed Muscle + Spine

1. V Black Red + C Khorne Red
2. OC Tanned Flesh
3. OC Tanned Flesh + OC Pallid Flesh
4. OC Pallid Flesh + White
5. White

Blood

1. V Black Red
2. C Khorne Red
3. C Mephiston Red

Meat Cleaver and Chained Hook

1. OC Tin Bitz
2. Drybrush VOC Boltgun Metal
3. Light drybrush VOC Chainmail

Nails and Teeth

1. Dark Grey
2. Medium Grey
3. Light Grey.

Alien Lookalikes: East Riding Miniatures.

I recently remembered having seen some not-aliens (of the 8th kind), and had to ask around at the LAF to track them down.

They are not spitting images, but they are close enough to represent sub-species and be used along Leading Edge's OOP licensed ones, the OOP Horrorclix Aliens, and/or the upcoming licensed AvP minis from Prodos.

When I have gotten my PSZ project off the prepping table, and a few handfuls of modern zeds done, too, I may go back and get my two boxes of Horrorclix Aliens (and the queen) ready for some bughunt gaming - I'll probably be assembling my Kickstarter Battle Systems Sci-Fi Modular Terrain at about that time, too, which should be just purr-fect for that kind of gaming), and I could easily see myself using some of those ERM aliens for this purpose:

http://shop.eastridingminiatures.co.uk/mythic-worlds-sci-fi-58-c.asp