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[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

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[mmcv]

Just catching up on this project, lovely work and looking forward to seeing more. All the best for your surgery.

[Steve J]

Fingers crossed it all goes OK.

[Terry37]

Thank you all for the well wishes and prayers.

Took a few minutes this morning to get a few snaps of the newest completed elements - the Ocelotl Warriors and Mictlantecuhtli. Plus another more focused shot of my Eagle Warrior.


The Ocelotl Warriors. I decided to go with scale Jaguars to mount them on, and one is a typical spotted jaguar, while the other is a melanistic jaguar. The latter means he tends toward black, but even so still has spots but also has more of the darker pigmentation. Actually a black panther is really a melanistic  jaguar, with full darker pigmentation - but still has spots, which can only be seen in certain light or at certain angles.




Two views of Mictlantecuhtli with his dog. You can also see the owl figure I just received and will add to the base at the left front of the figure. I'll have him sort of on a short shrub or on a clump of rocks. In the myth, Mictlantecuhtli is the keeper of the underworld/dead at the fifth or lowest level. The owl is the bringer of the dead and the dog is the guide of the dead.


The owl will be painted along these lines to fit the theme of the element.


Here's the Eagle Warrior again.

Next up will be the Cuachicqueh (shorn ones) and the command element with general, priest , standard and a native with a horn/conch.

I'll back to it as soon as I am able, but this will bring you up to date.

Terry

[Techno]

Looking damn fine, Terry !

Cheers - Phil

[Steve J]

You've just gotta love these, especially that man and his dog .

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Top Terry

[paulr]

 

[Terry37]

Thank you all for the kind words and well wishes for my eye surgery. My first cataract surgery went fine today, and I am also feeling fine. I am having trouble seeing right now due to the large patch over one eye, so my glasses do not really fit, so it a chore to see, but i am sure will be worth it very soon.

I'll share new progress on this project as soon as I am able.

Terry

[Techno]

Look forward to that Terry...

Glad it all went well.
How long do you have to wear the eye-patch ??

Cheers - Phil

[paulr]

Good to hear it went well

[Terry37]

So far so good! Just got back from my first follow-up visit, and everything seems to be going fine.

Phil, I no longer have to wear the patch all the time, but just when I sleep now, so I don't accidentally rub or apply any pressure to the eye - do that for a week. The eye is still giving a blurry fog like view and is a little tender feeling, but I am amazed at hoe much brighter everything is. Doc said it will take several days to a week for the eye to recover from the trauma and settle down. The big problem is that my depth perception is way off right now, so I feel very unstable - therefore, a good thing I like and enjoy movies because that's about all I can do for now. I suspect that with my right eye being done next Thursday, the 5th, that it might be at least a week after that before I can start painting again, but really still an unknown. But I am anxious to get back to it!!!

One fear I had going into the surgery is seeing my figures that I've painted afterwards, so as soon as I got home, I went to see if they were as horrible looking as I was fearing! Fortunately they look OK to me and are brighter looking, which I am really pleased with, as my figures always seemed to have a dark look ot them!

While having time to ponder, I am thinking of adding one more element to my army - a god element. That would be represented by Huītzilōpōchtli, or the god of war. The name literally means hummingbird, which is what the Aztecs believed a warrior who died in battle came back as. Might be a fun figure to do, and I'll look for a largish 28 MM figure to make him form. One source shows him to have blue skin, so that might be fun too! of course I wouldn't be able to play him all the time, being a high point element and you are only allowed 12 points total of elements costing more than 2 points - but gives options to let me change up the army as well as do up another fun figure.

Hoppy Trails

Terry

[mmcv]

Terry, I'm glad to hear it all went well and that you can now see your figures in their true glory as we've been delighted to throughout! The God of war figure sounds like a lot of fun, I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

[Techno]

Hope the eye gets back to normal, as soon as, Terry ! 

Like mmcv, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the God of War !

All the best for next Thursday !!

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Fingers crossed