{"id":5162,"date":"2017-01-15T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5162"},"modified":"2021-10-29T03:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T02:00:40","slug":"lead-mountain-ii-christmas-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/15\/lead-mountain-ii-christmas-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Lead Mountain II &#8211; Christmas Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over my Christmas break I intended to get some stuff painted. However, I ended up doing a lot of other stuff (like going on walks with family and a day of KillTeam in York) so I didn&#8217;t get a huge amount done. I did manage to paint the bases on a large number of the insurgents I had been working my way through.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5164\" src=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20161224_191156_947-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just this week I did the finishing touches on the rest of the figures I had partially painted. As with all the Spectre figures they are great fun to paint. As with my last set of insurgents, I&#8217;ve kept using the red colouring (in bandanas, t-shirts and scarfs) to theme them when deployed together on the tabletop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5165\" src=\"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170112_125708_828-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next step will be to carry on painting up the insurgents I have left. This means I can more easily deploy large numbers of them which are required when going up against the more well trained and equipped forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over my Christmas break I intended to get some stuff painted. However, I ended up doing a lot of other stuff (like going on walks with family and a day of KillTeam in York) so I didn&#8217;t get a huge amount done. 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