Adalbert von Strunten den Sammen with friends

There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear. I am making a little series of scenes concerning the totally fictional German Medieval family von Strunten den Sammen. One late scene is already finsihed and shown here: ( http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16305&p=181227&hilit=stresojekt#p181227 ). But there is a lot more to tell about this family. I have started on the first scene, it is set sometime 1363 or early 1364. Here I show the main characters:

The father, Adalbert von Strunten den Sammen. Have been visited by two Swedish knights and they along with youngest son have persuaded him to go to war in Sweden.

The older son, Guthmund. Is against joining the war, but follow to keep an eye on his elderly father and that hotblooded younger brother.

The younger son, Siegmund. Is looking forward to the adventure and believe that the Swedish nobles will make them rich and famous.

Adalbert have also gotten word to his two brother-in-laws (they married three sisters). Lakritz von Vieluhr is an old friend to Adalbert and they have done a lot together.

Roun de Peliphant is the other brother-in-law. A couple of years younger than Adalbert and Lakritz, and living in France he haven't had the same contact with the older knights and he is a bit reluctant.

He brings his old friend Tortue de Écureuil.

Adalbert's daughter's fiance Kolmbach von Rollingen also joins the war-party.

As does the neighbour Johannes von Lillemo.

And Siegmund's friends Nickolaus von der Rücken

and Gregorius von Blake.

The two Swedish knights are:

Johan Gustafsson Ving

and Erik Birgersson Tre Rosor.

Probably more to tell next time.

The expedition

Hi again. New month, new year and new post! Happy new year! I start the new year with a little something I call The Expedition. It is not finished yet since I haven't made all the bases I need yet. But I'll show some of the photos here (the colour ones) and some (sepia-like) at Benno's. I play a little with the names on the explorers. First we have Sir Alfred Toby (Sir Toby is one of the absent friends in the old TV-sketch Dinner For One, which is aired in Sweden every New Years Eve), then Mr Benjamin Butterbur (Mr Butterbur is usually called Barliman and lives in Bree in Tolkien's Lord of the Ring), Mr James Winterbottom and Mr William Pommeroy (both from Dinner For One), Dr Napoleon B. Brown (there is an old bluessong called Dr Brown and one blues singer called Nappie Brown, but it was Buster Brown that sang the song with saxophone player J.T. Brown), Admiral Adalbert von Schneider (a little mix. Adalbert is a ghost in one of Johan's and Peewit's adventures and Admiral von Schneider is (again) from Dinner For One). The admiral have two dogs, Nuff and Spud (Nuff is also called Alan Lancaster, bassplayer with Status Quo and Spud is the drummer John Coghlan). Very nerdy, yes I know, but I like it. :-D Some of those pics have been shown here already.

In the woods I was a-wandering one sunny afternoon. A true story

This little scene is actually based on a true story! A long time ago I went to a seance out of curiosity. I was quite sceptical while I sat there and listening to the people getting messages from the other side. Then the medium came to me and said she had a message for me. It was from a man. She could sense a dog with him and she associated him with trees, like a forest. The message was quite simple, I should get my life in order. I didn't get my life in order, but I asked around a little and nobody had heard of such a man. Now, many years later, I am a man with a dog in forest and I think I should have gotten my life in order. Then, not when I did it. And since Alex has made such nice figures I could resist putting them in forest. Just temporary, this forest is for other figures.

And here is a little WIP-pic

Some more people, but not for court

At least not the royal one! Needed a little tiny break from all the nobles so I painted these:

And these :-D

And her :-D :

And rear view:

More people for a royal court

No silly names yet though.

All the new ones together:

The king (no name yet, but I have a few I can chose among). Got the inspiration to his clothes from an Osprey-book about King Arthur.:

A grumpy knight in blue. Maybe the king's uncle or something:

A couple. As usual with this sculptor (Alex Gussev) great faces!

Two guards and an empty throne.

Some kind of nobleman.

A woman in blue.

Some kind of official at the court:

A nobleman. The hawk is not something I am proud of, but it will have to do.

A bookreader (some kind of scribe):

And another nobleman.

And all the courtpeople I've painted so far all together:

A new try on me and last pic of the river before D-Day

I am a little figure in Valdemar's set Pilgrims II. It is very fun to be that, but the problem is to paint me. Paul (at Paul's Bods) has done a very nice version of me and have tried myself, but I have not been very happy with my version of me. The beard looked wrong so now I took it off (in real life I'm considering asking ZZ Top if they could need a half decent rhythm guitarist). Bad pic, sorry.

And this is the last pic of the river before I pour water in it! D-Day could mean Disaster-Day, but we will see. The monk is not meant to be there. The stones get stuck in the wheels of the missus electric wheelchair and come lose on the kitchen floor where I step on them. But now I've found a use for them. :-D

Two bathers (mild nudity!)

Have painting very little lately. But I am painting two of Alex' bathers and two horses. The horses will hopefully be used in my planned story about a magic lute, but there is a long way to go and many many figures to buy and paint and at least three bases more before I can tell the story. Oh, and I have to write it too. The bathers I think I'm going to use in something that I call "The feverish dreams of brother Ottar". Name can change and it is a long way to go there to. Picture is taken with the cellphone, sorry for the blurry pic. First the decent picture:

And then the whole nudity! They are wonderful figures, but I don't know if the girl really is in the set. She wasn't on PSR so maybe Valdemar skipped her in the final set.

Some finished figures

Many many projects at the same time! First some people for a restaurant scene. The scene have been shown before, but here are some more people for it. Don't know if the green dress is finished, maybe add some white dots on it.

The monk is probably going to another project! Also working on figures for a little scene at a royal court. Just have to buy Valdemar's "Knightly life" first.

And here is a little picture on the figures I am working on right now. No Lakotas! Sorry about that, hope to get to them in the future.

Some are for that court-scene, some are for the magic lute story (that 'Party in the woods' is a part of) and some are for something else! :-D

I finished my Italeri-house! Haven't glued it yet, but not going to paint more on it! We will see if it turns up in any post in the future.

Some years ago I bought a Cut-and-assemle castle from Usborne or Dover (don't remember which). It is pretty big and never finished more than this. Should have put it on cardboard, but now it is like it is! A little small for Valdemar figures, other than that it fits pretty nice with them!

A little scene

Once I started something I called Stout Man at Bath, but I don't know what's happening with it. I paint figure after figure and it will probably be at least 2 scenes. One can be from a restaurant and one could be from a bedroom (with Stout Man talking to someone and his wife asleep in the bed) or from a bath. Here is a temporary setup of the restaurant-scene, but I'm still paing figures for it so the final version can be different!

Figures are Airfix, Valdemar, Strelets and Emhar. Furniture are Valdemar and Fredericus Rex. Walls and floor are (as usual) Prince August.

Party in the woods - finished!

First (but last since I edit this in after the first comments) welcome Ben and Alfons!

Didn't do much in the hobby during the summer, but I finished my little Party in the woods-dio. Figures are from Valdemar, Airfix, Zvezda, Strelets, Prince August and Hat. Stones are from the local dogwalk and trees are from Heki or Pola or something like that.

Someone at Bennos (Ender Durman, I think) wanted me to add some nappies and at first I thought "Naah, not nappies" but I did add two. :-D

A bit of a problem here, how do I reach the cookies???

And another, more fun, but still a, problem! I got a horse leftover! Not much of a dancer, more jumper (a bit like myself actually, the most serious dancesteps I ever learned was The Pogo). Now I need a rider (already have an idea for a base).