Showing posts with label December. Show all posts
Showing posts with label December. Show all posts

Thursday, 15 December 2022

Christmas Wars: Summoning Complete ... Or Is It?

I get VERY little hobby time in currently (sick kid the last couple of days, altered appointments that pose logistic challenges, etc., and more CHistmas shopping coming up on the weekend), but my display still does get an upgrade now and then,


The pics are a tiny bit shaken as I find it difficult to hold the camera completely steady by hand, but you'll get the situation.

Miss Puddingsixpence has succeeded in summoning a Spirit. but is it the right one, and will it 



The Evil Snowmen are approaching from the forest. What heros will N be able to rally against them?



Thursday, 8 December 2022

Christmas Wars: Bad Moon Risin'

Today has been Crazy! This morning, after the first night with some notable frost degrees, we found that we had no warm water, and the radiators were cold in all of the ground floor (the top floor, oddly enough, still had some heating).

Anna almost suffered a nervous breakdown, as instead to taking a shower and washing her hair last evening, she had postponed it untill today, so we had to boil water and mix it with cold tap water in the bathroom sink, and the wifey helped her.

I had to drop off the Land Speeder at the garage for changing tires (and the rear windshield wiper), but as soon as I returned home, I called the plumber (as the pipe from the community heating plant leading into the basemant was hot, the problem had to lay somewhere inside our home).

Thankfully, the plumber could come right away (their smithy/workshop is just down the street), and an hour later or so, the radiators slowly began to warm up again. It seems that some kind of dirt filter was clogged, and now we should be marked safe from cold mornings for a while.

Then, after picking up the Land Speeder, I went to Ringe to work out at the Fitness Center/gym and pick up the girls from grammar school afterwards (15:15). Lea had to be at work at 15:30, and Anna took her time to appear, so I had to leave her behind at first to get Lea to work on time. I could not get Lea to call Anna right away to reassure her I'd be back for her (she was changing shirt for work), so Anna kind of panicked and thought I'd abandoned her. Which didn't make my day any better.

All in all, today was pretty shitty, and I did not have the mojo to do much hobby stuff in between.

But, I got the Christmas Display updated, and the story can unfold ...

Miss Puddingsixpence seems to have some problems harnessing the Power of Light here  under the Full Moon. Meanwhile, another Snow Goon has emerged from the Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Whose bidding are the foul constructs doing? And what is their purpose?





Tuesday, 6 December 2022

Christmas Wars: The Snow Goon Incursion of '22

 Clearly a violation of the Santa Clause, stating that no evil spirits can enter the Mortal Realms between Samhain and Epiphany, this situation may call for the activation of N's Sleeper Helpers. Miss Puddingsixpence seems about to invoke the Spirit of Christmas Present to summon some reinforcements - but will they arrive in time, and will they be enough to stem the tides of Darkness, or will Christmas be jeopardized ...?







Sunday, 4 December 2022

So It Begins

December is dedicated to painting minis which will show up in the Christmas Display on the sideboard. The first 'mini' finished this year is the largest of the trees, which I have given a washer base built up with some wall filler and painted with Humbrol Matt White Enamel and Citadel Apothecary White Contrast.



I am basing more of those cheap decoration trees (and I shall also give the small tree a bigger base), and I have quite a line-up of pop culture icons in the pain(t) queue,




Thursday, 1 December 2022

December Greetings to Everybody!

The cosiest month of the year has finally arrived, and despite soaring energy prices I have decided that we have to shine a little light in the darkness.

I think we all need something nice to look at to invoke some positive thoughts, defying the pandemic, inflation, and war.

Yes, war.

For the first time since WWII a European country has invaded another with the purpose of conquest. It's apalling, and, frankly, stupid, to take this course of action here in the 21st Century, but it seems that Putin is not really living in the same times as the rest of us.

I took some pictures with different camera settings to get to know my Canon Ixus a bit better. Still not perfect, but, well ...