My previous blog was getting rather long - in particular the archive was taking an age to load, so I thought I’d leave it ‘dormant’, or hibernating, or something - it’s all still there, under ‘Old Blog’, so you can see the entries, but I won’t be adding to it - instead all new entries will be here.
Monday, 10 August 2009
A change of editor...
No, not me you fool - the software! I have really struggled with iWeb and Mobileme over the past couple of days, and have learnt a lot about them - not a lot of it good. For one thing, unless you do some clever stuff, all of your web-sites are contained in one file...
And there are ways for
Tuesday, 4 August 2009
Men at Work!
I have been having trouble with iWeb, Apple’s rather nice little web-design thing. Basically, it can’t remember what bits of my website I’ve updated and uploaded, so each time I upload the latest update, it uploads everything I’ve done since about March - taking about half an hour, and increasing
Monday, 3 August 2009
Sassanian Persians!
A&A Miniatures have come up trumps - the figures I ordered last week, in the hope they might arrive in time for tomorrow (our Silver Wedding anniversary), arrived today.
Lovely figures - lots of detail, well-sculpted, and nice poses. The cataphract cavalry look suitably imposing, whilst the levy
Saturday, 1 August 2009
My First Unit...
...For my new project that is!
I have just finished (barring a movement tray) my new unit of A&A Miniatures Middle Imperial Romans, with Little Big Men Studios shield transfers. All done by my now usual techniques, involving the Army Painter Quick Shade, Strong Tone. I think they look a lot
Wednesday, 29 July 2009
Fun!
I am painting Romans again. Romans are fun to paint. These are some of the A&A Miniatures Middle Imperial Romans. I’ve dragged together a rather rag-tag bunch, taken from about four different packs, plus command - I think that, during the Third Century, things in the Empire were pretty grotty,
