Greetings Terrans, a rare non-hobby post today but I wanted to report that I successfully completed the 3 Peaks Challenge last weekend! I believe the phrase is ‘smashed it’ judging by how much the youngsters in the group used the term. The sub-group that I was in managed all the walking in 13 hours & the done thing is to then add 9 hours for ‘optimal driving’ to give a total of 23hrs. In reality we were 2 hours over this due to a traffic delays & diversions, and for legally required driver breaks, but the T+9 method is apparently fine so I’m calling it a Win 😊

The group were great, and as the second oldest, I was delighted that I managed to keep up on the ‘ups’, though I did find the ‘downs’ tough. My feet took the brunt of it & are pretty battered now, but everything else held up well – much to my relief! The overall tiredness was hard, & snatching the odd hour of poor quality sleep on a minibus isn’t great physically or mentally, but we all got through it in (mostly) good spirits. The level of cold was also fun, with a perceived temperature of -10 Celsius / 14 Fahrenheit on the top of Ben Nevis, and -5c / 23f on the others… pretty serious stuff!

Overall, the wider group (something like 56 of us) had raised £55,000 for Mind at the time we started the challenge, which is just incredible. That said, my Just Giving page is still open if anyone missed it, or were just waiting to see if I actually finished the challenge! I don’t know how long it stays open, but it’s here:

Alex Jelley is fundraising for Mind (justgiving.com)  

Finally, I just want to thank you again for all of the support, and for the personal messages of encouragement – they really did mean a lot to me, and I am very grateful.

Have a pretty picture of the view from Scafell Pike in return :-)

Greetings Terrans, I have a bit of a general update post for you today – a bit of an odds-and-sods photo dump really!

Fist up, some excellent Bob Olley Beastmen courtesy of the incredibly generous Azazel:

One of them was missing a weapon so I popped on a Bolt Pistol with a view to having them as an Abhuman squad in my one-day Bob Olley Rogue Trader army… These fellas have literally travelled around the world & were a real pleasure to paint – I am so happy to give them a home Az, I can’t thank you enough dude!

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Next, sticking with the Rogue Trader theme, I painted up these Bob-bots that Ninjabread Chris had made up:

These were great fun, perfect for a wet afternoon of speed painting!

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Finally, I found enough bits to make a Witch-elf:

I painted her to match my other DoK, and the rather OTT pose was entirely forced by using a helmet to match her colleagues… She’s a bit goofy, but I kinda like the ridiculousness of the pose, and happily, getting her finished means that I was able to round out this quartet to make an actual unit!

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I think that’ll do for this week – I have a few more random bits to share, but it’ll be more Realm-of-Warcry next week :-)