First of all, the stores here aren't the same. You would think that going into a Wal*****'s would result in the same products I have at home. Heck no. Which leads me into my rant.
Why can't I find unsweetened teas? I know several companies that make them. The stores carry the sweetened versions of them but I'll be darned if I can find one without HFCS or artificial sweeteners. I don't want sweetened tea! I want iced tea. Plain, regular iced tea. Is that so hard? Down here, I guess it is.
I won't even get into the lack of brand of candy I wanted since that isn't nearly as annoying as the lack of a type of beverage. I don't want to go to the grocery store and buy a multipack since I'm not at any one place long enough and at ReaperCon they have Sonic in and they will have unsweetened iced tea. And with any luck they'll give us the same "pay once, drink all day" deal since this is stuff they just dump at the end of the day. That's a nice deal.
On the mini scene I did get all the bases painted and the first coat of varnish on. I'll put the second coat on tomorrow (today?) morning so they have all day to dry before I pack them back up. One of the larger figures needs to be put back differently since her sword extends higher than the foam and it was slightly bent when I pulled her out. That's not acceptable so I'll probably have to turn her on her side.
I did get craft paint to edge the bases and it took 3 coats before I was happy with the depth of color. I grumbled a bit but realized I use at least 2 coats of the mini paint to do it so another coat of cheap craft paint isn't that bad.
The real problem is that I didn't think ahead about the availability of the color of static grass I wanted. For whatever reason I thought I could find something close enough and dry brush the ends once I got to Reaper. Yeah, silly me. I ended up sending an urgent pleading e-mail to Skullcrafts asking for a small bag of the flame static grass so I can add it to the bases. He'll have to send it to my next hotel so I get it. I'd really like something less vibrant but Skully stopped doing the larger variety of colors so I'll take what he's willing to send me.
This army does look darn cool. I'll try to get some pictures while they're in play so people can see just how cool they look.
That surprises me about the unsweet tea. I was under the impression that sweet tea was ungettable north of Tennessee or west of Mississippi, and that the only sweet teas were flavoured ones like raspberry or orange.We went Krogering last night and bought a metric butt-ton of provisions. I has loads of regular pop, diet pop, orange pop and green tea..sadly forgot to pick up a case of "purpledrank". We also have a bit of wine and fancy cheese and crackers...and I am bringing the ORC CRUNCH "oats raisins craisins roasted-peanuts unhydrated-bananas nugget-granola candy-pieces happiness)
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