Friday Night Update

Its been a quiet week on the painting desk - I feel I lack some inspiration at the moment - I have very few "new" figures available and am awaiting the arrival of a reasonable bunch of 20mm Minairons SCW figures - hopefully they prove as nice in the flesh as the website images indicate!

I have painted up four figures I have had for a few months - two Reaper Bones plastic figures plus two of the3D printed miniatures I cajoled my kids into buying me for Christmas and have then more or less ignored since opening them on 25 Dec - what an ungrateful father!

Reaper Tavern Wench in a Bavarian style dirndl costume

Reaper Bones stroppy looking cook

3D printed maid with bucket

3D printed serving girl

The 3D figures are a bit rough and certainly nothing like the Soviet infantry I bought from France, but its not so many years ago we would have thought metal figures that looked like these were well sculpted - so I can accept them as they are, although I dont think I would bother buying any more

Now, a quick update on the HaT 28mm plastic saga. The day after my last post, the NZ retailer who supplied me with the HaT figures contacted me again with futrther info. He had been to his off site storage shed and checked a couple of boxes. They did indeed have 1/72 on the front but the 28mm stickers on each end - HOWEVER, upon opening the box to check - shock, horror - he discovered the figures within were, in fact, the 1/72 version, as indicated by a molded tab on each sprue, carrying the part number, a four digit number beginning with 8, whereas the codes for the 28mm figures are a 5 digit number commencing 28....

So, I do in fact, have two boxes of partially painted 1/72 HaT Napoleonic cavalry, rather than the 28mm ones I ordered. This of course is quite exciting news, as it opens up the possibility that the actual 28mm figures are not so much smaller than other ranges in the same scale. I now just have to wait to see how the situation gets resolved, as unfortunately, the retailer does not have the genuine 28mm figures available to send me - he has said he taking the matter up with HaT - and I can only hope that he will send me replacements in due course, as I have requested him to do.

Finally tonight, my wife and I visited a large, historic cemetery in central Auckland a couple of weeks ago, mainly so she could locate and photograph the grave stones of some of her ancestors (which she did) but while we were there, I spotted the grave of the first Governor General of New Zealand, William Hobson, who signed the Treaty of Waitangi with the majority of the Maori tribal chiefs in 1840.

If you click on the images and make them full screen, you should be able to read the inscriptions on the memorials.