It's Thursday and everything is set.
Bags are packed, the motorbike is in storage and farewells are in the process of being made.
This blog will be a bit quiet from now on as Inso is preparing to launch off into the wild blue yonder.
The next entry will be sent from the sunny Gulf and will be distinctly different to what you are used to. Not a lot of hobby and probably not a lot of anything else. Just babble to let us know that there is still life in the old dog.
Yesterday, Inso got a very nice little present from a friend over at the Forum of Doom. It was a packet of 10 little cavalry miniatures called Fubarnii. They have been made and cast up by a guy called Carcharoth and they really are fantastic. It was all Inso could do not to unpack his hobby stuff and get to work on them...but alas, real life is beckoning too loudly at the moment and he will have to wait until he gets back to start on them.
Well, that's it for now!
Catch you soon.
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Tuesday...the finality of it all...
Well, that's it. It has finally happened. Inso has packed all his hobby stuff away and has started preparations for his little trip abroad.
Gone are the paints, the putty, the brushes.
Gone is the newspaper and water glass.
Gone are the Grymn and cats.
Gone is the lamp and photo screen.
The table is bare.
What it all means is that there will be no more painting/sculpting posts for a couple of months. There may be the odd rules or fluff post but from now on the posts will be few and far between.
Inso would like to thank all those who have visited his site over the last few months and says that he will have plenty of stuff to write about when he gets back in July.
I doubt very much if there will be further posts over the next few days as preparations continue for his trip.
Catch you later.
Gone are the paints, the putty, the brushes.
Gone is the newspaper and water glass.
Gone are the Grymn and cats.
Gone is the lamp and photo screen.
The table is bare.
What it all means is that there will be no more painting/sculpting posts for a couple of months. There may be the odd rules or fluff post but from now on the posts will be few and far between.
Inso would like to thank all those who have visited his site over the last few months and says that he will have plenty of stuff to write about when he gets back in July.
I doubt very much if there will be further posts over the next few days as preparations continue for his trip.
Catch you later.
Monday, 21 April 2008
Monday.
Today has been a lazy day for Inso. He has sorted out his lap-top for his travels and has been shopping for things like travel sickness pills and batteries.
The post Salute messages have kept him busy as well so he has been on-line quite a lot. Deals have been brokered and parcels have been wrapped and sent.
Today has also been the start of lots of 'real world' chores that will lead to a long drive to the air port on Friday so things are getting a bit melancholy. As the hobby stuff gets packed away, Inso will get more and more depressed so I doubt if there will be too much info coming out over the next few days...and then for the next two months!
Catch you later.
Maybe...
The post Salute messages have kept him busy as well so he has been on-line quite a lot. Deals have been brokered and parcels have been wrapped and sent.
Today has also been the start of lots of 'real world' chores that will lead to a long drive to the air port on Friday so things are getting a bit melancholy. As the hobby stuff gets packed away, Inso will get more and more depressed so I doubt if there will be too much info coming out over the next few days...and then for the next two months!
Catch you later.
Maybe...
Sunday, 20 April 2008
Sunday...everybody is home.
I would apologize for not posting over the last couple of days but I'm not going to because there is one word that will explain everything:
SALUTE.
Inso's Salute thing goes like this:
Friday: travel up to stay with family in Buckinghamshire: takes 6 hours and everybody nearly gets killed by a lorry pulling out without looking.
Saturday: up at 6am, train into London, stand in Q-busters Queue for an hour and enter show. Do show and leave at 5pm to travel back to Bucks. Stay up until 12-30am trying to fix father-in-laws computer.
Sunday: travel back to sunny Cornwall.
So...the show.
What did Inso buy?
Lots and lots of Grymn, and some Kiergi from Hasslefree miniatures.
Some Aliens and weapon sprues from Black Scorpion miniatures.
Some Grey aliens from Copplestone castings.
Some Grey aliens from Griffin miniatures.
Some Dinosaurs from Magister Militum.
Some Dvarg (space Dwarfs) and a super hero called 'Armourdillo' from Black Hat miniatures.
Some plastic ACW miniatures from Perry's miniatures.
What else happened?
Inso met a lot of people from the Forum of Doom and put faces to a lot of names. They were a great bunch and lots of chat went on. He also met up with Sally, Kev and Neil on the Hasslefree stand and swapped ideas, shared chat and generally got on very well with them.
There was a lot of cool stuff on display. The action man scaled, radio controlled tanks were great (sound effects, smoke...awesome!). There were so many cool games going on that it was difficult to take them all in. Games of note were the Frothers gang fight, OP MARKET GARDEN (1/35 scale!), Wargods of Olympus (lots of big miniatures, and Wendigo) and all of the vast armies for the ancient wargames (from toy soldiers all the way down to 6mm scale).
There were people dressed up as Daleks, Stormtroopers, Stargate troopers, Romans and US army WWII. There were also a few of the fairer sex dressed in very gothic and 'interesting' pirate gear (there were some male pirates...but they weren't as noticeable!).
There was also a lot of new stuff on show...too numerous to mention (although the US power armour for Secrets of the Third Reich was very nice).
So.. a great day!
Catch you later.
SALUTE.
Inso's Salute thing goes like this:
Friday: travel up to stay with family in Buckinghamshire: takes 6 hours and everybody nearly gets killed by a lorry pulling out without looking.
Saturday: up at 6am, train into London, stand in Q-busters Queue for an hour and enter show. Do show and leave at 5pm to travel back to Bucks. Stay up until 12-30am trying to fix father-in-laws computer.
Sunday: travel back to sunny Cornwall.
So...the show.
What did Inso buy?
Lots and lots of Grymn, and some Kiergi from Hasslefree miniatures.
Some Aliens and weapon sprues from Black Scorpion miniatures.
Some Grey aliens from Copplestone castings.
Some Grey aliens from Griffin miniatures.
Some Dinosaurs from Magister Militum.
Some Dvarg (space Dwarfs) and a super hero called 'Armourdillo' from Black Hat miniatures.
Some plastic ACW miniatures from Perry's miniatures.
What else happened?
Inso met a lot of people from the Forum of Doom and put faces to a lot of names. They were a great bunch and lots of chat went on. He also met up with Sally, Kev and Neil on the Hasslefree stand and swapped ideas, shared chat and generally got on very well with them.
There was a lot of cool stuff on display. The action man scaled, radio controlled tanks were great (sound effects, smoke...awesome!). There were so many cool games going on that it was difficult to take them all in. Games of note were the Frothers gang fight, OP MARKET GARDEN (1/35 scale!), Wargods of Olympus (lots of big miniatures, and Wendigo) and all of the vast armies for the ancient wargames (from toy soldiers all the way down to 6mm scale).
There were people dressed up as Daleks, Stormtroopers, Stargate troopers, Romans and US army WWII. There were also a few of the fairer sex dressed in very gothic and 'interesting' pirate gear (there were some male pirates...but they weren't as noticeable!).
There was also a lot of new stuff on show...too numerous to mention (although the US power armour for Secrets of the Third Reich was very nice).
So.. a great day!
Catch you later.
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Thursday WIP...
Just to show that he has been doing something over the last few days...other than surfing the net...Inso sent this WIP pic of his heavy squad (with hanger on):
The armour and camouflage gear is done but the rest is still to be finished. It's a start but there needs to be a whole lot more finished if he is to get them done before he goes to Iraq.
All that is on his mind is Salute at the moment...
...you should try talking to someone when all they want to think about is Salute...I might just as well bang my head on the wall!
Catch you tomorrow.
The armour and camouflage gear is done but the rest is still to be finished. It's a start but there needs to be a whole lot more finished if he is to get them done before he goes to Iraq.
All that is on his mind is Salute at the moment...
...you should try talking to someone when all they want to think about is Salute...I might just as well bang my head on the wall!
Catch you tomorrow.
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Wednesday; day of Catachan Green
Apparently, and I'll quote Inso here...
"Catachan Green paint is like painting with watered down choclate".
From that, you'll gather that he has been painting armour today. He hasn't got too far because of what he just said. He got fed up with the paint drying out so quickly that it didn't go on very well.
Apart from that...he has put his revised Salute pre-order into Hasslefree. Here are the new Salute releases (all the pix on the linked page):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8055.0
He would also have loved to have pre-ordered some aliens from Black Scorpion but they aren't taking pre-orders. Here's a link to the aliens (scroll down to find them):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8064.0
I would list his pre-order but it's mostly Grymn...as expected.
Apart from all that, Inso has been mostly surfing the web today so didn't get much done. It's great to be on holiday!
Catch you later.
"Catachan Green paint is like painting with watered down choclate".
From that, you'll gather that he has been painting armour today. He hasn't got too far because of what he just said. He got fed up with the paint drying out so quickly that it didn't go on very well.
Apart from that...he has put his revised Salute pre-order into Hasslefree. Here are the new Salute releases (all the pix on the linked page):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8055.0
He would also have loved to have pre-ordered some aliens from Black Scorpion but they aren't taking pre-orders. Here's a link to the aliens (scroll down to find them):
http://heresyminiatures.com/forumofdoom/index.php?topic=8064.0
I would list his pre-order but it's mostly Grymn...as expected.
Apart from all that, Inso has been mostly surfing the web today so didn't get much done. It's great to be on holiday!
Catch you later.
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Tuesday...
Sorry I didn't post last night but there was no news. Today, there is little more.
Painting has re-started on the Grymn heavy weapons squad and a straggler that was sitting on the shelf. The camouflage is complete and work is going to start on the armour soon.
The 2 Matakishi cats have been based and undercoated. One of the cats is sat on a bed, the other has a dead mouse on his base. The one in the bed is base coated and will end up ginger. The other one is undercoated and will end up black. Inso has two real cats and they are being the inspiration for the Matakishi cats.
Salute fever is everywhere! Lots of new releases from lots of different companies mean that plans are changing on an hourly basis. Lists are being written and torn up. Pre-orders are being made and changed. Roll on Saturday!
The big tidy has started in the Inso household. He has all but cleared his painting table and military kit is being sorted and packed. As far as I can tell, this means that the focus will remain on the Grymn and cats and the rest will be dictated by 'real world' chores and plans.
I'd like to take a moment to say something that I feel strongly about.
I'd like to offer my sincere condolences to all those families who have been touched by service bereavement. I am humbled by the latest news of the two RAF gunners losing their lives. My heart goes out to their families, friends and colleagues.
Catch you later.
Painting has re-started on the Grymn heavy weapons squad and a straggler that was sitting on the shelf. The camouflage is complete and work is going to start on the armour soon.
The 2 Matakishi cats have been based and undercoated. One of the cats is sat on a bed, the other has a dead mouse on his base. The one in the bed is base coated and will end up ginger. The other one is undercoated and will end up black. Inso has two real cats and they are being the inspiration for the Matakishi cats.
Salute fever is everywhere! Lots of new releases from lots of different companies mean that plans are changing on an hourly basis. Lists are being written and torn up. Pre-orders are being made and changed. Roll on Saturday!
The big tidy has started in the Inso household. He has all but cleared his painting table and military kit is being sorted and packed. As far as I can tell, this means that the focus will remain on the Grymn and cats and the rest will be dictated by 'real world' chores and plans.
I'd like to take a moment to say something that I feel strongly about.
I'd like to offer my sincere condolences to all those families who have been touched by service bereavement. I am humbled by the latest news of the two RAF gunners losing their lives. My heart goes out to their families, friends and colleagues.
Catch you later.
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