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Monday 4 January 2021

Happy New Year

 A happy New Year to all reading this, we've celebrated the Winter Soltice and the coming of the two faced god Janus, to look back on the despicable 2020 and look forward (hopefully) to a new 2021 !
I 've had a very leisurely holiday period, plodding along doing very little hobby-wise, mostly eating sleeping and playing nurse, housemaid, cook, cleaner, and servant to my wife who had a fairly serious accident just before Xmas - she's now on the mend and getting better daily.
I have been doing bits though with my newly acquired Xmas present to mysel - my westerners..
With the use of hot and cold water dips, a file and a craftknife and the addition of twine I've produced a few simple conversions 
[The nine 'conversions' en masse]
 Photographing these was a pain, ther beingbright white plastic, but I hope some idea can be had from my limited photoshopping skills.
The following photographs, show two 'conversions' with the orginal figure in the centre.
[The ladies, the one on the left will be holding a fan]
[L to R, a swordsman, the original with a 2x4 lumb of wood and another with a rounded stick !]
[L to R: meat cleaver wielder, origianl with machete and sombrero on his back, lastly man with knife]
[Men with shovels,  original in the centre)
[Only one 'conversion, chap on left is now bald ! (other chap is the original0]
Final photograph is a rear view  of just the men and hopefully it willbe obvious now what the 'conversions' are intended to be used for. 
[Rear view of all those now with queues - my first western Chinese-to-be]

That's it then for this week, I'm desperately trying to catch up on all the blogs I normally comment upon, but in the meantime, thanks for taking the itme to visit and hopefully you;ve found something of interest.

Of course, as always, your comments are welcome and appreciated.

18 comments:

  1. Good to hear your wife is feeling better Joe.
    Love the conversions, as I was looking through kept thinking where's the twine, and you saved it for the last shot, absolute genius, should make for very effective hair when painted

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    1. Thanks Dave,it's amazung what can be done so cheaply and with little real effort.

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    1. Thanks MJT, enough, I quite enjoyed working on these.
      HNY to you and yours too !

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  3. Great posting with which to start the New Year, Joe. I look forward to seeing these minis painted :-)

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    1. Thanks Blaxx, I'll be happy when I just get a day when it's not bucketing down or blowing a gale - they should be easy enough to paint when they're undercoated.

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  4. Happy new year sir!
    All the best and don't stop blogging. :)

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    1. Thank you Michal, I always appreciate your comments.
      Happy New year to you and your family, please keep them and yourself safe.

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    1. Thanks ray, hope all your fmaily are well and safe now!

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  6. That's fantastic work Joe.
    A Happy Newyear to you & best wishes to the good lady wife on a speedy recovery.

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    1. Thanks Frank, the wife's carer is doing a sterling job !

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  7. Great stuff Joe 😀 All the best to the Mrs. on a quick recovery.

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    1. Thanks Ivor, the wife is getting service on demand !

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  8. Great conversion work, hope your better half is up and running soon,happy new year!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thanks Iain, I'm pretty sure she'll be back to normal in another week or so and btw, neither of us do 'running' any more.;-)

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  9. Happy New year Joe. Like the conversions and I think you have made a good job.Also like your domestic multitasking.I hope that your wife is not in pain and will be on her feets very soon.Have a nice weekend my friend

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    1. Thanks Ptr, I'm very plesed with the conversions too.
      Wife will be up on her feet soon I hope.

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