A Summer of Citadel: Lune and a retro den...

Plenty of house sorting work has kept us busy over the last few days. Mostly stripping seven layers of painted wallpaper from the walls of one of the bedrooms. We borrowed a steamer from a neighbour which sped things up but there is still a great deal of work to go. On top of this, I have been given particularly strong antibiotics for the dry-socket which have left me feeling rather unpleasant - though it is preferable to the nuclear throbbing in my head.

Today, I finished off my final familiar. This one is called Lune and his is perhaps the most famous of the tiny range. You may well be aware of the famous painting by John Blanche called Mona and the Moonman which is still part of the Ansell family collection as far as I know. The character in the painting looks far more sympathetic that the sculpted miniature, though they share many similarities. 

Have a look... 

My colour scheme followed as closely as I could with a luminous yellow head, red scarfy thing and trousers, green doublet and black shiny boots. His face is far more mean and evil than the figure in the painting and his 'tin opener' has been considerably enlarged. 

I am far more satisfied by my highlighting this time too. Though I used my not very good Samsung camera to capture this figure, rather than the posh natural light filter on MFM's smartphone. So I guess you might not be able to notice. 

In other news... Now that the rewiring is complete and new doors have been fitted on the outbuildings I have a new retro den all at my disposal. See this door? It leads into what has been over the last thirty years or so a carpentry workshop. It is pretty grimy and dusty and was full of junk. I spent today clearing out rickety workbenches and associated grot. A private firm will dispose of a chunk of this debris and the council are coming for the larger parts. Once this is complete, I shall thoroughly sweep out and clean this space and begin to use it to rebuild my Citadel collection. 

I'll have room for everything I could wish. I used it today and the sense of space was inspiring, even at this embryonic stage. I plan a photography area, painting station, scenery store, Dettol clean up space and so on. I've even retained a large piece of wood to build a decent sized skirmish table. And who would have thought it all possible this time last year!? Before you panic, no lead will be stored here and everything else is sealed inside plastic boxes. So any possible damp (not that I've seen any sign of that over the last 18 months) will not be a threat. 

I'm hoping to sneak out here tomorrow at some point to get another figure finished. MFM will be very happy to know that all the 'toot' will be safely out of the way now and not cluttering up the house. 

Until then, 

Orlygg