Back from the dead...
been a while, i have been taking care of junior since i came home from germany, he got a really bad stomach bug and puked for two days and then completely knocked in fever, i dont think he ever been that bad poor guy. very nice to come home to after a tiresome journey... thankyouverymuch! anyway he is more or less ok now and should be back to kindergarten today.
anyway to continue the bad news, one of my miniatures broke at the security control at the airport, they went bananas with my backpack (never happened before) and scanned it 3 times, then asked me to open the bag, took all the boxes containing minis and scanned them one more time. THEN asked me to open all the boxes. bloody hell! lets just say they were far from gently and i am honestly surprised that nothing else broke. to sum it up, primus death is officially dead in more than one way. some serious chipping of the paint and i am not certain i will ever repair the guy. another thing is that i will probably never paint a metal miniature again, as the only miniatures i had broken has been in metal, i have never broken a single plastic/resin mini that hasnt been easily repaired.
ok for the good news, the trip to germany for the dukes of bavaria show was awesome, lots of cool people and the standard of the competition was indeed very high, with the exception to euromilitaire probably the show with highest standard ive been to. in the end i took a silver in master painting fantasy and a silver in master painting (historical). pretty pleased with that!
so, not been able to paint much, but ive done some changes to the rat, probably not visible in this picture but oh well...
the left hand holding a empire guy has been removed as it made him really unbalanced. instead he is going to hold the banner as i posted before. i have to do some work on the base also, so far ive done a small waterfall just under his feet but i guess more work with vegetation has to be added to make it look really good. it is still not a mini i am really happy with. dunno. the front side is really sweet but the other side, knocked with warpstones makes the mini a mess in my opinion.
