Sunday; busy Sunday...

Today, Inso has been painting his Grymn squad! He has base coated and highlighted the first layer of cloth and has finished the first layer of 'blobs'. From what he says, the hardest thing about painting these particular Grymn is the green part of the fatigues. Now that has been done, it should be down hill all the way from now on...so there should be plenty of progress in a short space of time. Inso hasn't taken any pix but assures me that he is on the right track.

Sunday night is Pantomime night and Inso, his wife and two children were off walking the boards this evening. There was a full run through tonight, with singing, dancing and plenty of lines being read. The whole family are doing pretty well with the learning of lines but still need a few cues during the second act. Next week (or this coming week), there are a lot of evening rehearsals so there won't be too much painting going on...fortunately Inso is on Leave so he'll have time during the day to get the painting done.

Inso has a parcel waiting for him at the Post Office and can't wait to find out what it is...with so much E-bay action lately, it could be anything. He seems to be a bit like a cat on a hot tin roof...he's a bit excited.

Well, seeing as there are no current pix, I thought I'd dig out his other project, a Neu Swabian League platoon (for Stargrunt II from GZG). The following picture shows the command squad:


Inso has another painted squad and two more on the go. These are on his 'finish before I go to Iraq' list but after all the cavalry malarky I would be surprised if he manages it. We'll just have to see.

Catch you tomorrow.

Thirty Seven.

There is very little progress on the Drusch, apart from undercoat and base-painted bases. If Inso gets his arse in gear and takes a pic or two, we may get to actually see what he's done. He's like that you know. Sometimes he's a whirling Dervish with miniatures being painted by the bucket load and the next...nothing.

I suppose he has an excuse today because it's his birthday, hence the title (you'll never guess how old he is).

Everything is fairly chilled in Inso's house today. He has dropped the 'early detachment' bombshell and it has been recieved with barely a ripple from his family...it could have gone a lot worse, that's for sure. Inso tells me that he has relaxed a bit now after worrying himself silly about telling his family.

With only three and a half months to go before going abroad, plans are being made to finish painting certain miniatures before departure.

As well as the Drusch, Inso has been working on an army of Grymn (Space Dwarves from Hasslefree Miniatures) and hopes to finish the latest platoon before departure. If he still has time, after finishing the Drusch as well, he also plans to finish a platoon of Neu Swabian League troops from Ground Zero Games.

Of course...this has to fit in with life but all being well, things should start ramping up on the painting front pretty soon.