“Rats I Need To Write an Update”

Hello all, well as the title says I’m very late to the party this year as here we are now into the fourth month of the year and only one post from me, and that one I’d really rather of not had to post.

But anyway I thought I’d better let you all know what I’ve been up to while all of you have been happily painting miniatures and posting on your blogs? Well first off I have to apologise for my absence there have been a few reasons for this, firstly work has been a pain in the arse, as they keep changing my shift pattern, but I won’t go into that. Secondly most Saturday mornings have been spent down at the “Model boat club lake”, sadly most of the time I haven’t actually been sailing a boat (actually I’ve only sailed twice this year so far!), but we have been doing a fair bit of ground work around the lake, and have now put a fence up too, it’s starting to come together and will look the business by the time we are finished, but it has been a lot of work. Another time grabber also associated with the boat club is the fact that I have now volunteered to take over the role of “Merchandising officer” (this is a posh way of saying I order the (polo style) T-shirts etc. for the club), sounds simple, but as no one had done this role for many years I had to start from scratch and find a company to do them, source the image for embroidering , take orders, collect the shirts and distribute them along with doing the accounts, all this because as my wife said “I’ll do anything for a club T-shirt!!”. I have now expanded the “merch” so we also do….Hoodies, sweatshirts, baseball caps, woolly “beanie” hats, and coats (Gillette style body warmers coming soon!). However the last and probably biggest block on my hobby time at the moment is sadly our dog “Holly” she is now fifteen and for the last couple of years has been requiring more and more attention, to the point now that we can’t really leave her alone at all as she needs to be reassured and constantly watched in case she has to go out to the toilet, avoiding an “accident”. We love her to bits, but feel a bit like live in carers for her these days. Still enough excuses, I’m here now so what have I been doing since I last posted.

Well not a lot to be honest, I have added to the ”fleet” a little, last time I mentioned my boats I had four, two working and two very much works in progress (or not as the case may be), well I’m now up to six (though there are still only two working 🤨. A few months back we spent a couple of weeks clearing all the Boat clubs stuff out of one room by the lake and putting it into a new slightly bigger room. Well while doing this on the first Saturday, we found a few “hulls” and part built boats and were asked if anyone wanted any of these, well I succumbed and bought this one ☝🏼, thought lord knows why! It’s horrible to be honest, though it was only £5.00, at some point I think I’ll turn it into a “pond yacht”, though probably with a small motor and working rudder. Then a couple of weeks later this tug 👉🏼 was unearthed under a pile of plywood sheets, as I carried it across to the new room someone asked “who’s is that?”. “Well it looks like it’s Rogers now” came the reply from Mark the club secretary, despite me copiously disclaiming that I didn’t want any more boats,  suffice to say that a couple of days and £10.00 later it was here sitting in my garage. This has been the thing I’ve spent the most time tinkering with and will probably form the subject of my next posting, so something to look forward to there then (or not).

I have painted a few figures as well over the last couple of months, not for myself, but for my youngest who has been taking part in a couple of “Blood Bowl” tournaments at our local “FLGS”, he ordered this “Skaven” team off of the internet, and when it finally arrived  (a couple of months and a few Emails later), I agreed to paint them up for him, He actually won the first league they ran, and is currently leading the second (He’s a much better gamer than his dad!!). He has his eye on a “Khemri” team for his birthday next month 🙄, so the brushes will be out again for that no doubt!

Lastly (and I absolutely blame this one on Matt, I have started collecting a few “Hotwheels” die-cast cars, as I speak I’m only getting Corvettes and Ford GT and GT40s, but this is very addictive so…..

Anyway that will do for now, at least you know I’m still about, will I return to painting figures for myself? Well I’d better as I still have tons of the blooming things about unpainted, and as they say you never forget your first love..

Till next time, cheers Roger.