Saturday and a small amount of news...

Well Inso has been in touch and has said that feedback is good. He has carried out a few minor modifications to the Fubarnii and is much happier with it. The reason the changes were made was because of feedback from the FoD. So here is a pic of the Fubarnii knight with a bit of dark-lining between rider and mount and an additional; layer of highlight on the mount:


Inso thinks the changes are for the better...are they?

He also tells me that he has started work on a Noblin called Hurk from Spyglass Miniatures. He is remaining silent on the paint-scheme at the moment but has mentioned that the Noblin is based and undercoated ready to start.

There is also a tiny bit of news on the conversion front today. A while back, Inso bought a Tyranid starter box from Games Workshop and had a few miniatures left over. The left overs were Gene-Stealers and last night Inso started converting one into something a bit different. Again, he isn't saying too much so I guess we'll just have to wait and see what he comes up with.

Catch you later!

Thursday.

I know that there are a few less posts at the moment but that is the nature of life sometimes. I will say that although Inso is dealing with a lot of real-life 'STUFF' at the moment, he is also slowly ticking along with the hobby side of things as well.

As was mentioned in an earlier post, Inso received 10 miniatures (Fubaarni) from a guy called Carcharoth from the Forum of Doom. They were a gift and were extremely well received, I can tell you. Well, on Inso's return he said that they would be the first ones to get his attention and indeed, he assembled one completely and based the other 9 ready for assembly as soon as his painting things were back on the table. While this was going on, he painted the Atom but the drive was still to get at least one of the Fubaarni finished as soon as possible. Well, he's only gone and finished one. He has deliberately gone for very subtle highlighting and a bright colour scheme...so here are a few pix with the ATOM for scale:


As you can see, it is something completely different! There will be a few conversions coming along for these as Inso received two lots of five identical miniatures (5 have shields the other 5 don't). There will be a few rifles and a bunch of equipment added to some of them and others may receive other stuff as well (cloaks, helmet plumes...even whiskers!).

I hope you like him!

Catch you later.

A Super Monday.

Well, it seems like Inso has started painting again. Obviously he has had to get the creative juices flowing by painting something completely different...but at least he's started.

Here is a picture of the Grymn's latest biological marvel and his name is 'The Atom':



The miniature is a super-hero from Black Hat miniatures called 'Armourdillo' and he suits the Grymn perfectly due to his diminutive size. He still needs varnish but he's all finished in the painting department.

Who knows what is next?

Friday...

Nothing happened today except for Inso buying some partitioned boxes to try to get some sort of order in his un-painted Grymn collection.

Yesterday the boiler was fitted, today the electrician was in so Inso decided to give miniatures a miss; what with all the comings and goings.

Inso has said that he does have a single Fubaarni cavalry miniature assembled...but the other nine have just been attached to bases without being assembled yet. I suppose it is a start but it doesn't show us very much.

Catch you later!

Yawn...is it Thursday Already?

After a couple of days being a zombie whilst enjoying various basic pleasures (tea...with real milk!!!), Inso has at last begun to wake up.

Now, for those of you who are not familiar with the Forum of Doom, Inso is about to start a new journey in a few weeks. Not only has he been promoted but he will be moving to Northern Ireland. As a result, he has a lot of real-life stuff to be getting on with. HOWEVER...this hasn't stopped him thinking about hobby matters.

Since he has returned from the Gulf, Inso has started to sort through the mountain of lead that he acquired from Salute. He has also ordered various bits and pieces since then and done a bit of trading here and there so you can imagine the problems he will have deciding what to do first. As a stop-gap, he has returned his heavy weapon squad to his newly set-up painting area and has put some paint, water and brushes next to them to try to get motivated to paint them.

He has begun to sort out the Grymn horde that he has but due to the new releases of the helmet clad Light-Infantry, Inso's plans have completely changed so he has just grouped a few units together at the moment; with little thought to actually progressing them until the muse takes him.

Today, the boiler men arrived to replace a boiler in his house, so he has just begun assembling a few Fubaarni. Assembly work isn't too involved so it means that he can keep an ear out for what is going on with the boiler.

Well...that's the news for now. There may well be more very soon but things will happen when they happen at the moment.

Take care.

The 'Tired One' Returns.

It has been two months of very little news but today I actually have some. Inso has returned from his little sojourn in Iraq/Kuwait.

He has apologised for being so quiet but he had problems accessing his blog out there, for some reason.

Now that he is back he has mentioned that he has written some more short stories and has plans for a few miniatures...but only after he has re-acquainted himself with his family.

As it stands, his bags have been dumped in the hall and he is currently enjoying his second cup of tea with 'real milk' so there will not be much happening just yet.

Stay tuned for more news over the next few days!

Nearly a whole month of peace!

Well hasn't it been a bit quiet here for a while? I thought that I would shed a small amount of light on what is going on in Inso's world at the moment.

Inso has been away for almost a month now and has been kept very busy fixing things. He is currently working a 24hr on, 24hr off shift pattern and is getting about 7 hours sleep every two days because his insomnia has been rearing it's ugly head a lot. He is fairly happy and has met some very nice people where he is working. The Americans are particularly good at making friends and Inso has had many a chat about the different cultures that we have.

For inspiration, Inso only has to look out of his accomodation to see Humvees parked every where in a multitude of different models. There are armoured personnel carriers, trucks, attack helicopters and many other cool things (including the Polaris, quad bike/buggies)...all there to stimulate ideas.

He has already written a short story (it can be found in the Forum of Doom: Hasslefree gaming and flufferey section).

His homework is progressing...he is learning electrics and is currently finding out all about fibre optics...NICE ;).

Inso has also flown about as a passenger in one of his helicopters but he said that he'd much prefer fixing them to flying in them!

Roll on the 28th of June...it's not as far away as it was a few days ago!

Catch you later!