Great Northern War - Swedish Infantry Teaser

As alluded to in a couple of my comments to the previous post, I am trying to be focused and stick to the plan IE finish off the Warlord hard plastic cavalry before I start on the newly arrived Ebor infantry,,,,however..... during a mega session on Sunday when I completed six cavalry troopers (more of them in the next post) I did allow myself the slight distraction of painting one of the infantry officers - and a very nice figure it is too!

Here he is from five different angles - the Swedish uniform in this era is simple but elegant, and the sculptor has done it justice in this lovely figure in my opinion

Prior to yesterdays painting session, to mark the end of our seven day lockdown in Auckland, we had a quick trip to a local forest park based around a series of dams in the Hunau Ranges, east of Auckland, which supply the bulk of our domestic water supply. For several months, these dams have been well below the expected level for the time of year and we have been admonished to have shorter showers, not water the garden, not wash our cars etc. Even now, with some of the restrictions relaxed, you can still see the water levels are well below the maximum they could be. A nice little walk of about 5km which took around an hour to complete - there was a lot of steep climbs involved!

The start of the walk was this suspension bridge with a warning sign saying the max no of people to be on it at one time is three....not very many...so not sure how safe and secure the bridge actually is!

A great view from the halfway point, with the Wairoa dam lake visible in the distance

A view in the opposite direction, looking west across the farmland towards Pukekohe in the distance

Closer view of the Wairoa dam and reservoir - you can see how far below the "full" level the surface of the water is

Small feeder stream adjacent to the carpark 

That's it for tonight - more GNW cavalry soon I hope.