Slow progress is still progress...

Due to the fact that I can't find my greenstuff anywhere, work on finishing the undead menace has halted awaiting resupply. Today has therefore been a frustrating sequence of snatched bits between marking and parenting. The base is mounted and instructions added to ensure that my aged brain doesn't fail completely when the time comes to carve it:





Work has also started on my Top Secret filler project:



I'll not comment any more on that as I'll probably just unveil that one when it's done.

A trip to the car boot sale this morning netted me a little set of goodies. I nearly bought a load of 1/72nd saxons and normans in order to build a model of Senlac ridge to use in lessons, but they'd been painted (badly) and I didn't fancy going through all the hassle of stripping them. Instead I got these chaps for the princely sum of £8:


I'm torn between building a Games of Thrones vignette - these chaps strike me as a good base for some realistic looking Lannister footmen - or to try and build a warband for Saga or Lion Rampant. The idea for this is shamelessly ripped off from Mike C's Westeros Saga work which I thoroughly recommend you check out.

Has anyone picked up Lion Rampant yet? I do like the look of them but have yet to take the plunge. The added advantage is that it would give me an excuse to buy some Perry Foot Knights.

Shinybloodyitis 1 - Me 0

I am very impressed with Warlord Games' service. The single miniature I needed to complete the complement for the next project arrived almost the day after I ordered it.

Errrr... along with some more miniatures.



Now, to be fair, I didn't spend much. But the entire point of this was that I wasn't going to spend anything more than the bare minimum to avoid the wrath of She Who Must Be Obeyed. So I guess I have to find a use for the leftovers.

For the tally, then, I have two seventeenth century Rabble Rousers to use up and a suspiciously familiar roman general...

I have an idea for the General but I'm damned if I can think of a use for the two spare seventeenth century chaps. I'll stick up a picture of them when I've got them unpacked so anyone who's got any bright ideas can chip in.

Oops.

I just popped on to Warlord Games to buy a miniature for the next little project. Given that the postage is £4 for any order under £10 I may have ended up spending a little more than I intended in order to feel like I got my money's worth.

On the plus side, it does give me a focus for the next thing after the next thing while I plan the next thing after that. Without giving anything away, I'll simply say that what we do in life echoes in eternity.