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.

Wild West dio

First! Welcome Ray! http://onelover-ray.blogspot.com/ and http://raysmusicemporium.blogspot.com/

This was in a duel against Pascal http://samsminisworld.blogspot.com/ at Benno's. I won, but I liked Pacal's entry better. I think they tell us at least something about us. I have a tendency to overdo it and Pascal is a gentle person. Over to the pics! Among the citizens worth mentioning this time is the mayor, Cornelius T. Babblaloss who have a tendency to talk a lot. Here he welcomes the circus. But we start with a scale comparison :-D

And here is a night picture. You can see a statue of this town's biggest sponsor and his dog among the trees. :-D

The clown. It all started with him and a sharp-shooter, but the sharp-shooter was changed to a more passive one.

The children, from Preiser, was painted last year and it was a real test to see if my eyes were going old. And, yes, they are. The grownup Preisers were painted 15-20 years ago.

The plastic bases under the figures are not nice, but it is a way for me (with restricted space) to make big dios with the same base. The houses aren't fixed either. Just the trees and the grass.

At first I thought that the cook from Strelets' Medieval Britain would look too big, but he fits pretty well with the much smaller preiser figures. Sherriff Lucky Lopez seem to be a bit late to the welcoming committee.

And here we see the town council welcoming the circus.

Washing the kids

I hope that Mr. Preiser don't mind that I wash his children after I've painted them.

Working working working

Don't have any children of my own so I pain't Mr Preiser's. Hope he don't mind. When I've finished these I have to take a little break from Suso-Frick Junction and paint something totally different. I also feel that 1:87 is really too small for me and children in 1:87 is even smaller. But it's not the last you see of Suso-Frick Junction! I found many painted figures that just need a little brushing up and a base of clear plastic (instead of white cardboard) to be ready to go into action.

Jolly Bob

This is my first attempt at painting a tartan and it didn't turn out that well. At first I was going to call him Aberdeen Angus, a good name and a good wine (from Argentina of all places), but his tartan was too bad. In stead I call him Jolly Bob after a very old Swedish song about the sailor Jolly Bob from Aberdeen. In real life he is from Strelets' Medieval Britain-set, so he is British with a lot of Russian in him.

And Molly and Sally don't have a history at all. Just two Preiser girls from one of their sets called something with 1900 in the title. Preiser's idea was probably a beach scene.

And that poor fellow (I'm going to call him Averell I think) is an ESCI ACW Union casualty. One of the very few they ever made.

And the house? Made from cardboard and I'm not very good at this, but I try and I have fun. :-D And the house is from this book (still available):