The Expedition - Two new photos

Hi again. This will probably take much longer than I thought. This year started bad. After New Year the missus had to go through surgery and remove her gall bladder. In and out of the hospital during four days (luckily they let her sleep at home. When your in a wheelchair everything is much easier at home) and on the evening of the fifth they did their work on her. And then our dog started limping on his left front leg. The veterinary checked him and said the elbow, which surprised us, since he felt strained around the shoulder. But she said elbow and demanded to open there and have a look. The elbow was fine and our dog was feeling terrible after the surgery. Probably she managed to pinch him so he reacted on the elbow. Very good vet. :-/ She said then that since the elbow was fine it was probably a nerve-root tumour, but the symptoms were wrong. What can we do? we asked. Let him go, was her answer. But she let us get him go through X-ray. No tumour what so ever. Well, the symptoms were wrong. :-/ Two other vets checked him and without us saying anything they said it is probably some muscular problems around the shoulder. So next step is another vet, specialized on muscular problems with dogs, seeing him on Tuesday, the 18th. So where is all this ranting go? Well, all of this costs money and to finish my little expedition I need to buy a little more stuff. But that will have to wait awhile longer. In the meantime I give you a family-photo of the von Schneider-family and a photo from when the expedition is welcomed in Syrinx.

Oh xxx, she had a pet dragon/dragoon

Some time ago I had a duel at Bennos. The theme was "I met a monster". My little entry was called "Oh xxx, she had a pet dragon" and looked like this:

It had five votes, which is very good since my opponent was marvelous and fun.

Well, some ideas are too stupid to not do so I gave her a pet dragoon instead. :-D

The Poo Song

Looked at the car this morning and came up with a song. If you want to use it, it's totally free!

Pidgeon poo, pidgeon poo, I don't like that pidgeon poo
Pidgeon poo, pidgeon poo, I don't like that pidgeon poo

It's on the car, it's in my hair
It's on my clothes, it's everywhere

Pidgeon poo, pidgeon poo, I just hate that pidgeon poo
Pidgeon poo, pidgeon poo, maybe I'll make some pidgeon stew


That's it! It can be longer. You can change to other animals and make a very long song about different animals poo, but the above is enough for me. :-D

Tarzan meets a Deadie

The story is published here:

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12669

Here are the pics in the order I took them. The story came later. :-D

And, yes, you have seen the base before:

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12654

And before that, here:

http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=10254&hilit=wimoweh

Wimoweh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V9v94cPXak

:-D

And Sir Toby is mentioned here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_t3F5QkAYk

:-D

Vork In Progress (V.I.P.)

Yes, I know I spell it wrong. But I'm planning to use a VIP in this little work (which will be at least a couple of dios/vignettes). Need more Valdemar sets so it will take a while. And what is the smurf doing there? Well, the first time the smurfs appeared anywhere was in an album about a magic flute and I'm planning to do something about a magic lute (don't have any smurfs in the right size). Haven't the story clear yet, but I hope I will get there in the end. Orc and goblin are from Prince August's fantasy moulds. Still have the moulds and tin but don't have the time to cast new ones so these old will have to do even though you have seen them before. Have to give Paul a base too I think.

EuroEnglish

Moved my office at work and sometimes you find some strange stuff. Found this document. At least a little bit fun. :-D

EUROENGLISH

The European Commission has just announced an agreement that English will be the official language of the EU – rather than German (the other possibility).

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty’s Government conceded that English spelling has some room for improvement, and has accepted a 5-year phase-in of the new rules, which would apply to the language and reclassify it as EuroEnglish. The agreed plan is as follows:

In year 1, the soft ‘c’ would be replaced with ‘s’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. Also, the hard ‘c’ will be replased with ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan now have one less letter.
There will be growing public enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome ‘ph’ is replased by ‘f’. This will reduse ‘fotograf’ by 20%!
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of all double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling! Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent ‘e’s in the language is disgrasful and wil be glad to eliminat them.
By year four, people wil be reseptiv to lingwistik korektions, such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’(thus saving more keyboard spas!).
During ze fifz year, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be droped from vords kontaining ‘ou’ and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibil riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis, and evriun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer.

ZE DREMVIL FINALI KUM TRU!!!

Ve vil hav konkerd ze verld!

And hobbystuff? No updates yet. Sorry, no time. Hope won't die, but, well, there is so much else that I must do and the rest of the family is more important than I am. And I try to repair the relationship with the missus (she broke up twice with very harsh words just in May). She needs me, that's why I stay. So, sorry. No happy updates for now, but hope is hard to kill. :-D

Still walking

Started walking in February and they haven't reached their destination yet! And they're only at the stables.Very slow walking indeed.

After...

nine beers it can be like this. Never happened to me, but I've heard about it. This is just playground, more serious pics will appear at Benno's hopefully after this weekend.

Thirsty

Two small test-photos taken very fast yesterday evening. Haven't done anything with the bottom of the tankards, the rest is given a green wash.

Strange reaction

Finished my eight small tankards yesterday morning (sorry, no pics) and my bladder must have thought they were real! Had to do it all the time just as if I had been drinking real beer (well, I took one just to have as reference). Hope to take pics of my Bavarian this weekend.

Pretty good with that gun!

Finished some more on my ACW twopart-diorama. Half is finished and the rest only got that canon to be painted.

Blomma on adventure

I have plans for the Dead Flowers guy! He's not going to Gata Forest. He's going to a feast at the court of the king of the mountain! He and his freinds plan to raid the trolls' cave but they are tricky and pretend to be friends to the trolls and feast with them. To-do-list: Paint the trolls in another colour! Give them tails!!! Dig up some troll guards! Try to find that missing plate! Paint the humans! Paint the chairs and tables in different colour? Make a base. Make dancers of a troll and a hobgoblin and three of the humans (among them Blomma). Why not in a competition? Don't want a deadline with this one. Manufacturers? Troll-king and furniture: Prince August Mithril-range, Dancing troll and hobgoblin: Prince August fantasy-range, humans at the table: Emhar Viking Oarsmen, Blomma and human dancers: Airfix Robin Hood, Troll-musicians: Games Workshop. Can't help it, but Blomma sounds very very gay in Swedish. :-D

Being stupid!

More stupid than usual. The missus sasid I was crazy and had a good laugh when I told her what I've done. What did I do? I contacted the Russian sculptor Alex (at Bennosfigures (hmmm, are there readers here that haven't heard of Benno's? Don't think so.) and asked if he wanted pictures to use. The answer was that he already had an idea (it sounded very good) (I've posted some various pics of myself at Benno's) and didn't need any pics. So I gave him free hands to do what he wanted to do. :-D We will see if there is some result from this.

Dead Flowers

... is a song by Rolling Stones (pretty good 'un too!), but also my latest competition entry at Benno's Figures. Didn't go very far, but at least 5 votes. Don't know if this one going to Gata Forest or in what state if he's going. Not very fond of this pose, but there is probably use for him somewhere, maybe as a casualty (and then I could call him Blomma and the title would be fine. :-D)

Alternative Dead Flowers

Didn't use this figure in the last competition, used one of Robin Hood's Merry Men instead. The flower in the background don't suffer anymore. I've kept it to remind me that I shall NEVER EVER have flowers at my office. At home they are healthy and allright most of the time and they have never reached this mummified state. Fig is going to be used in Gata Forest, don't know which side yet.