Swan Chariot, painting phase 2.

A project consisting of a sky chariot, three elves and two swans. And a 120 mm oval base with a sparse selection of vegetation. Purple or white flowers will be added to the base.

Toying with the idea of painting the golden leaves on the swans in green instead, I think they would lively up the front of the model slightly.

As you can see in this picture, the pulling ropes aren't finished yet. I have the missing four parts in my desk-drawer but they will be added when I have gotten my new, smaller rare-earth magnets, the ones I happened to have was almost 40% too large.

The sky-chariot itself is slightly warped due to me being sloppy during the construction of the basic paper construction. Chariot itself consists of paper, plastic WHFB-bits from the Burning Chariot of Tzeentch, green stuff, grey stuff and miliput and more paper.

I am still testing different colours, but the crew got their first layer of verdigris. I will work up the metals again and perhaps add a blueish tint - I believe that this colour is called azur? Or is it? The colour-mix between green and blue that many men have a tough time differentiate from blue (not talking about colour-blindness).

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In other "news" I can inform readers from not-Baltic-bordering countries that celebrations of Valborg have finished without bigger disturbances in this stretched-out country known as Sweden. Valborg, or Walpurgis as it might be called elsewhere, is an old pagan thingie (renamed after Holy Valborg in... in... some year or the other) where you light bonfires, throw firecrackers and both celebrate spring (again) and scare away the trolls, vättar, gnomes and evil spirits. And in the university cities of Lund and Uppsala, for some reason, the celebrations are really heavy. Here's an example of a family friendly tradition in old university city Uppsala (situated close to the capital Stockholm)