Mainly outdoors

 The weather was spectacular here and almost all of the day was spent in the garden. I worked on the small halt and primed the cottage. Again some area of the garden was cleared of ornamental grass to see if it could be the terminus for the garden railway. I weeded a great deal, tried to work out why the rhubarb is not giving anything like its usual crop ,tried to halt the invasion of suckers from the raspberry canes and a vigorous rambling (?) rose who is trying to take over the garden underground.

The Laburnum is beautiful at this time of year ,quite spectacular. I managed to tack some figures onto stirrers with pva ready for painting and tried to move on the 10mm figures ( Masai warriors and porters);I had popped on a base prior to painting, not the best decision with hindsight. 

Gardening can be totally absorbing or a chance to mull over hobby plans,yesterday it served both functions at various times during the day. The outdoor day ended with Belgian beer and eating together, a good day indeed,

Joy in small things

I reuse boxes to store unpainted figures. The figures I was looking for yesterday were in a box a friend had reused when he sent me things ages ago. Peeking out from underneath my address label were part of some interesting looking stamps. I was able to remove the label and reveal these-

I was taken aback by the lovely pictures, the post box and the view, quite transported for a brief time.

Anyway the box contained something different and I am posting here my first efforts in 10mm for ages apart from a few fantasy figures. I couldn’t resist having a go at these-

It seems strange to be painting such small figures but I marvel at the detail that the maker has got in the people I prepared for painting yesterday. Any advice on painting this scale would be gratefully received.