Onwards and Upwards

Well, I've sort of painted the Realm of Battle board

And I've undercoated the Tale of Nine Gamers Rohan figures

But progress has been deathly slow. To be fair I've had a nasty cold, had some serious cleaning to do on the house and some occasional entertaining and so forth. "Undercoating the Rohan figures" was a simple thing to type. In reality it involved hunting down wire brushes just before the shop closed, scrubbing the last horrid grey undercoat from the new Mithril Miniatures Helm's Deep Warriors of Rohan figures. The figures have been in various stripping chemicals for several months now. Then I had to cut the bases off with my last jeweller's saw blade. Then glue the bastards onto washers with five minute epoxy and then use the last of my black spray paint and some of the grey spray paint to undercoat them.

Finally, with the fever peaking, I was trying to take photos of the undercoated figures. Undercoated figures are not terribly interesting to look at, or easy to take photographs of. Especially at night.

And the shagging tripod has snuck off someplace.

In slightly less annoying news, I've undercoated and based my entire Grey Company force (I think, mostly) and many of the metal dwarves recovered from the stripping jar.

Anyway, here are some deeply exciting in-progress pics I will then have to share on The One-Ring