More paper Disney

 After a break of three months, the Disney Go Blog finally released another four in their paper Disney series.  I have only managed to finish the first three so far.  The two blocks of Main Street were easy to assemble.  The parade floats were a bit more fiddly.  The castle was more difficult to put together as some of the steps weren't very clear.  I still have to finish the Carousel.

In the new sets, they have added some extra Halloween themed crafts as well as more parts to the Paper Disney Park.

In Happy Haunts set 1 you get the Entry Gates with some extra pumpkin decorations as well as some decorations and shadow puppets.

There are no paper park pieces in Happy Haunts set 2.  Instead they give you a placemat, cup sleeves, napkin rings, place card holders, decorations, and a doom buggy snack box.

In Happy Haunts set 3 you get a Haunted Mansion facade on too big a map (9 sheets!) with a stretching portrait chamber.

Happy Haunts set 4 includes more parts around the Haunted Mansion including more rooms.

Figure Painting Total - September 2020

I lost a bit of momentum but was able to paint a few more before the end of the month.

Bought

DCU – Justice League International – 6 (Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Dr Fate, Martian Manhunter, Mister Miracle, Shazam)

DCU – Lex Luthor (Classic Costume) – 1

Savage Worlds – Stone – 2

Reaper – Wereboar – 1

WizKids – Dullahan (headless horseman) – 1

WizKids – Grizzly – 1

WizKids – Shadows – 2

 

Painted

Dracula’s America – The Forsaken – 9

Reaper – Wereboar – 1

WizKids – Grizzly – 1

WizKids – Timber Wolves – 1

 

 

Sept total – figures bought 14, figures painted 12

Running total 2020 – figures bought 124, figures painted 79

 

 

Covid – Back to School

Our province started getting some cases in August due to people travelling.  Despite this, most of the schools opted for back to classes in September, with predictable results. 

Having graduated, my daughter is now attending online classes for university.  It’s not quite the same experience but she is making due with it.  Her classes are all online.  It was a bit tricky getting her school books due to the conditions.  She seems to be settling in but is certainly missing out on a lot of the university experience.

My wife and I have both have been told to not expect to go back fully before November.  She is going in one week a month already. 

We have now watched all the Netflix Marvel shows.  With a lot of our regular shows not scheduled to come back until January, we are getting around to some of the other shows that we had missed – like Titans, Doom Patrol, and Umbrella Academy.  Shan has watched Mad Men, Dynasty, and Frankie and Grace.

We were able to make it out to the Stardust Drive-In to see The New Mutants.  It was odd seeing a movie away from home and good to make it to the drive-in.  The staff seemed friendly, and the menu was wide and good.  If it was closer than 90 minutes away, we would probably go more often.

 

I didn't get anything painted in August.  I was mostly focused on papercraft.  I did pick up a few figures though.  

I had been looking at the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare at my local game shop for a while now.  My son is into Fallout and the game can be played solo if he is not interested.  It's been marked down 25% for a few months now and I keep picking it up and looking at it.  No-one has bought it as it has a huge gash in the bottom - like it had been dropped on the edge of a counter.

I had ordered Fallout Shelter and they brought in the Fallout: Wasteland Warfare: Survivors - Vault Personnel in error.  They saw that it was an error and offered it to me for $30 instead of the $40 it was.  I picked it up.  

The next week when I went back, I picked up the Wasteland Warfare starter and they gave me a further deal down to $55. 

Bought
Unmatched Cobble and Fog – 4
Dracula’s America – The Forsaken – 9
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare – 13
Fallout: Wasteland Warfare: Survivors: Vault Personnel – 4
Chronoscope – Horace ‘Action’ Jackson – 1
Chronoscope – Pulp Era Professor – 1
Reaper – Willow Greenivy – 1
WizKids – Timber Wolves – 2

Painted


Aug total – figures bought 35, figures painted 0
Running total 2020 – figures bought 110, figures painted 67

Books Read - May to August 2020

May

The Fantasy Trip Companion by Steve Jackson Games

Gaslands Refuelled by Mike Hutchinson

DC Universe Miniature Game by Mark Latham

 

June

Stitch ‘n Bitch: The Knitter’s Handbook by Debbie Stoller

Cooking Price-Wise: A Culinary Legacy – by Vincent Price

Cheapass Games in Black and White by James Earnest

French Musketeer 1622 – 1775 by Rene Chartrand

This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Phillips

 

July

Blood Bowl 2019 Almanac! By Games Workshop Limited

The Enemy by Lee Child

Night School by Lee Child

Rick Mercer Report: The Book by Rick Mercer

 

Aug

The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton

The Manual of Aeronautics by Scott Westerfeld

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Behemoth by Scott Westerfeld

Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald

Confess, Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald

 

 

New printer and papercraft

When our printer needed more ink back in July, we looked at the cost of replacing ink, and the cost of buying a new printer with ink.  We finally took the plunge, spent a bit more, and upgraded to an ink tank printer. 

Not being so concerned about saving precious ink, I printed some things from a few papercraft sites.

 

I started with the sample saloon from Hotz ArtWorks.  It looked too small against the Reaper and Knight Model figures so I didn’t assemble it.  I have since gotten some Dracula’s America figures that seem closer in scale so I probably will put it together.

 

Disney Parks Blog had just come out with Paper Disney Parks.  They have four so far in the series.  The first two were both for Main Street and the Magic Happens parade, the third was for Sleeping Beauty’s Castle, and the fourth was for King Arthur’s Carrousel. 

I printed off all of them at 25% to save space once done and have finished the first set.

 

They haven’t printed any more in the series yet, so looking for a Haunted Mansion led me back to Haunted Dimensions.  They have papercraft for three versions of the Haunted Mansions from the different parks. 

They also have the houses from Amityville Horror, Psycho, and Adams Family as well as facades from the movie theatre from The Blob and some others.  I have printed off the three houses and the movie façade and am mostly finished the Amityville house.

 

For more hyper detailed versions of papercraft about the Disneyland signs, train station, and castles there is also The Disney Experience.  I haven’t started on any of these yet as I am not sure if they will be too large once finished as well as too complex if shrunk. 

 

Some of the buildings will be used to fill up a table for wargaming, and some will be used for our Halloween display table in our new spare bedroom.

Figure Painting Total - July 2020

I chose not to get the Indomitus box.  I'll probably wait to get the new starter.  They have also announced a new edition of Blood Bowl for the end of the year.

I'm really tempted to get some more DC Universe sets while they are sale from Knight Models.  But instead I ordered some figures for Dracula's America.  This will let me see if the Reaper figures are in a similar scale, and will let me know what scale I need to use for buildings.

Bought

a few Heroclix figures that I might repaint for Marvel Universe.

Painted

Unmatched – Jurassic Park – InGen vs Raptors – 4 (Muldoon, 3 raptors)

BM – The Dynamic Duo – 1 (Batman)

BM Suicide Squad Starter – 1 (Katana) 

BM/MU – Suicide Squad – 1 (Katana)

MU – The Thing – 1 

Chronoscope – Rex, Dark Future Hero – 1

Reaper – Jade Tiger, Monk – 1

Reaper – Xiao Liu, Female Monk - 2

WizKids – Raptors – 2

July total – figures bought 0, figures painted 14 

Running total 2020 – figures bought 75, figures painted 67