Ho Ho Ho.. Merry Christmas!

 Well, in New Zealand, that's Christmas almost done and dusted for another year. No more than averagely festive, as it has tended to be for the last few years. We started the day with my wife and I, daughter, son and sons girlfriend for a nice cooked breakfast and a glass of "bubbles", followed by a brief exchange of half a dozen gifts. Then wife started preparing the lunch, daughter disappeared to get ready for work and sons girlfriend and he departed for present swapping duties at her house. She then revealed that, contrary to expectation, she would NOT be joining us for lunch - grey clouds over the kitchen bench as wife continued the meal prep. An hour or two later, wife's mother and brother arrived,  had a brief interaction with daughter who then departed to sit at the airport in a crew room for eight or nine hours, son returned from girlfriends, mother in law expressed surprise and sadness that girlfriend not joining for the meal. Exchanged a few more gifts, had a drink or two, had lunch, sat around chewing the fat for maybe three hours then wife used mother as an excuse ("would you like us to take you home now?") to pull the curtain down on the raucous event - brother in law departed for Hamilton (whence he had earlier come) and we took mother in law fifty km in the opposite direction to her home in Auckland, as son returned to girlfriends house. Home by about 6pm, watched the news, watched the Queens speech - I went into garage to paint desk, wife removed about 50% of Christmas related decorative bric a brac - and that was about it. Daughter arrived home about half an hour ago pretty bored and annoyed, had some cereal to eat and went to bed :) I seem to remember., it was just a little bit more fun when they were younger!

Anyway, I thought I would share the Christmas Haul, which isn't huge but is what I requested so I cant complain - some 3D printed scenics and figures produced locally (ie in NZ) and available for quite reasonable cost on the local version of E Bay.

I didnt bother taking images of the figures - they are not quite as clean and crisp as the scenery - they are ok but faces etc not great - I guess I will probably paint them up but in retrospect I would have been better to get more scenery and forget about the figures....

And as a kind of bonus, yesterday, Christmas Eve, the last post before the big day delivered a small pack from Hasslefree in Wales. Coming so close to Crimbo, I decided to treat these as a Christmas gift too!

Oriental martial artiste

Geisha with a blade

Countess Mia - going to be either French or Italian in the Pulp Project!

I have some more painted Pulp specimens too but they can show their face in another 24 hours or so.