Pneumonia projects

Some family traditions are really weird. In my family it seems to arise the habit to pass someone's illness to another family member:
At Christmas Eve I started to cough a bit. A few days later it grew worse and a sore throat joined it. After my family doctor returned from her holiday I visited her this morning and after some auscultation and X-ray examination she diagnosed pneumonia within my right lung. That sounds worse than I feel but it means at least two weeks of antibiotics and the interdiction to work. Fortunately it's not too infectious and I don't have to go to the hospital.

Therefore I'll try to use the time as productive as possible and maybe I'll get some projects continued or even finished.


For example some more parts of my new gaming board. I finished the first piece this week and I'm rather satisfied with the result:

The first terrain piece for the new board...

In addition I primed several British hussars and French Old Guard grenadiers in blue last week. Altogether 36 miniatures to paint. Maybe I'll able to do some of them. Momentarily I finished two grenadiers to try out "Prussian Blue" in comparison to "Dark Prussian Blue" and tried some other technique for the skin:

"Prussian Blue" on the left, "Dark Prussian Blue" on the right

And I hope to have some more time for this blog. There's a Bolt Action game this evening which I could write some lines about, the Black Watch is to be reviewed, there was our annual year-end event which was a funny thing and there are some older reports I owe you.

So I think I'll get my convalescence filled with some progress on the workbench...