Rex Thorum Sum

The title of today's post is the approximate translation of "I am the king of the divan" into latin.

Men at arms are progressing: I was sceptical about the metal paints at first,
 but they look alright now they've dried.

In which the gloves come off

Finally covered all the lead minis with enough paint that I consider them safe to handle. A Grate boon to society. Now I just need to ask the council about what to do with the lead alloy swarf, Started painting the axe-carriers, the swathes of maile (how the hell do you spell that?) are a drybrush heaven.

Quite proud of Gambeson Dude, but Chainmail Charlies aren't as maile-y as I'd like.

Let's do the time warp again

I realise that I haven't posted any pics of my progress with my two airfix models, so here are some close-to-completion shots for your viewing pleasure (not pleasure, suffering).

Top view with light coming from the wrong direction. New heads seem to be sticking on the Men-at-arms.

"No safe threshold has been discovered"

Today's title comes from the wikipedia article on lead poisoning. Yay! It makes me glad all the sawing is over on my first attempts at a head swap, and that three out of eight Men-At-Arms have been sprayed black. Progress continues on the Bowmen.

Bowmen with shoes & trousers. My new paint set doesn't have a colour analogous to GW scorched brown :-(

 Behold the Mighty Shed in all its' wooden glory. ON Saturday morning I had a vacant  few hours and got down to the vital business of assembling an army that looks vaguely 12th/13th century.

So! I bought some 28mm lead-based men-at-arms from the internet, dragged them into the Mighty Shed and attempted to glue the shields on. Alas! the protrusions from the model's fists onto which the shields are intended to fit proved too large.

A thoughtful sip of my trusty mug of tea, and I thought "I'm going to have to file these down, right after the superglue's dried." Yes dear browser, I put glue on all four before attempting to stick one on.

So, Still wishing to salvage something from the evening, I turned to the Chieftain tank and Japanese WWII aircraft carrier that have been darkening my drawers since Grendel was in short trousers. This (perhaps because I was able to manhandle them without fear of going the way of the Roman Empire) was more fruitful. I now have 6 suspension bits stuck to the sides of a tank (on axle is broken already...) and only the flight deck remains on the carrier. I hope to post pics including the Mighty Shed tomorrow, so you know what I'm blithering about.