#pawpaw success! The farmer who has had pawpaws in the past had them this year. She said these are the first crop from her own trees, a ten-year project.
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It is getting to be #pawpaw season! If you are east of the Mississippi and have not tried them, now is the time to look. I will not make it to the festival in York, PA, but I plan to scour the farmers’ markets for my yearly fix. My cousin’s trees have started dropping fruit, but I’m not sure I will get any from them. This time of year, I find myself thinking about @kimberlyadams ‘s uncle’s patch and hoping to hear that she got in on the harvest.
Monday was #battletech night! I’m running the group through the Black Thorns scenario book, and this was week 1. The Ridge Line Scenario is a ComStar Level II vs. a Smoke Jaguar Star. Each side gave as good as they got, but the Smoke Jaguars overran the position. Shout out to my Thug pilot, who could not hit the broad side of a barn. I shouldn’t blame him. It is a distinct irony in my life that I enjoy rolling dice so much but roll so poorly. Next meeting is the Red Rage scenario.
SeiðrTook a break from my current project. I’m running a ComStar vs Smoke Jaguar scenario in a couple of weeks. I had finished these 3rd ComGuard mechs a while back. I kept telling myself they were white, but I was lying. After painting a ComStar urban mech for our Urbie Derby, I had figured out how to highlight the top surfaces to accentuate the white and show the shadows. So I carefully went back over the parts to show the white . Pretty happy with the results. #battletech #miniaturepainting
More progress on my Thorin FTM company. I did the accents with #thearmypainter fanatic greenskin. Metals are speedpaint polished steel. Smoke is gravelord grey on top and occultist cloak on bottom. I wanted the blue to be lighter in the “sun”, so I tried highlighting with bright sapphire on the commando. It was too much. So I drybrushed it on and am happy with the look. Energy weapons are #proacryl flourescents. Next step is lacquer and maybe panel lines. #battletech #miniaturepainting
Progress on my Thorin FTM #battletech company. #camospecsonline calls for light blue with green highlights. I primed and zenithaled , but this time I tried putting blue #speedpaint through the airbrush thinking it might show the zenithal below. I’d had success with both grey and black before. The blue was a mess; I should have cut it with thinner. Not the effect I wanted. Re-did cockpits in black and areas for metals and lasers in white, which I’ll take care of next. #miniaturepainting
Just discovered that the #old97s are playing in my township! Service charge was only 25% of the ticket cost. Yay?
I also did a warhammer in Black Widow Company colors to finish out my Black Windows/Wolf Spiders
Got to go to #historicon this weekend. Really fantastic convention with a focus on historical wargames but also has some fantastical stuff. There was an entire booth selling #ironwindmetals battletech stuff, and I found my new best friend, the Black Python. With #battletech night on Monday, it was a sprint to paint up the mech. #slapchop was used, although I did a zenithal with the airbrush instead of a drybrush. The plan is to do more highlights and touchups later.
