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Following on from earlier post:

Details and corrections added.  Sepia wash to horses.  Highlights applied to cloth using citadel light blue dry brush paint.  Was a bit uncertain over using that as opposed to highlighting, hopefully looks okay.

Brown added to bases and lances.  Bronze to trumpet.

The knights horses have been painted either grey or off white . A blue citadel wash added to all the cloth areas , next a nuln oil wash was added to the other areas such as armour and the white designs on the shields and cloth areas. The leather being painted black first .

Next a highlight of chain mail will be reapplied to the metal areas of the armour and tidied up over the flesh on the helmets . The lances will be painted brown . Dark brown . The bases will be painted brown . Graveyard earth brown. Some white will be added as highlights to swan designs and blue where needed to tidy up .

Concentrating on the block colours.  First is chainmail and then Regal Blue followed by flesh.  Two horses will get an off white desert bone coat, then some vermin borown for the saddles.

Phil, Mike, Alex, Bruce and Darryl played.

First off we did Tomb of Annihilation.  We lost a healing surge when the bard got multiple fire bombs from the Villain in scenario 7.  However the team were victorious and with 2 heroes at Lvl 2 we are ready for Scenario 8 and beyond.

Next up was Grizzled which proved fiendishly impossible for our group.   Better luck next time maybe.  Then we finished with a none co-operative game of Diamant which Phil managed to win thanks to a nasty Lava trap.

Off to Michael’s to play Merchant of Venus.  Phil came second just ahead of Mike and Michael had a comfortable victory thanks to his clever use of space stations and some incredibly easy Missions!  Taking two of course helped with that.  Well done Michael.  My first time playing this old classic.  Very similar to Firefly.

Prep work on the Nazgul of Dol Guldur completed.  Because these are resin finecast it is best to use pin drill and copper rods to help with joining the finer parts together like the weapons.  Then I have undercoated with grey primer.

I have also fixed together the Knights of Dol Amroth using Revell plastic glue, sand and slated the bases and again grey primer applied.  Also I used superglue to fix together the foot knight versions.  No need to pin and drill these as they fit together better and the weapons come already attached to the hands.  I have done all the versions together so they match when finished.

Mike the Wizard, Phil the Druid , Alex the ranger and Bruce the Paladin were this week joined by Darryl the bard.

Another three scenarios quickly completed. The final proving the hardest against the sorceress. Now with nanny pu pu ‘s tasks completed our heroes are on their way to discover the location of the lost city of omu.

The Druid has now levelled up to level two and the wizard has a whole heap of items whilst the others have a good supply of upgrades purchased.

Several of my last few weeks post texts got lost in an app error so here are some photos.

Radagast the brown on Chariot

Painting notes.

Undercoat black as per previous post.  Acrylic coffee brown to sand on base then highlight with graveyard earth.  Dark Grey stones, add fortress grey highlight then edge highlight fortress grey.

Rhinox hide and black for chariot.  Graveyard earth and lighter shade khaki for ends of sticks. Foundry  leather brown for ties highlighted with yellow added.  Rhinox brown to clothes and rabbit.

Rabbits get highlight with brown (bestial).  Some bleached bone to undersides.  Agrax earthshade wash.  Black eyes.  Re highlight.  Leather brown to leather reins.

Flesh base to face.  Dark flesh to russet coat.  Vermin brown to coat.  Cloak part details paint with dark brown/ black.  Hat/ Fur khaki highlights.

Agrax earth shade wash.  Dwarf flesh to skin.  Catachan green/ brown to bag.  Dark Green Herbs.