Unexpected Item in the Painting Area

 

                                                       Bedouin army by Alan Ferrency

I needed to take a quick break from working on my Bedouins so I placed my paint tray in, what I thought was, an out of the way place.  Soon after I heard a crash whilst I unable to do anything about it.  When I returned to my painting set-up I found a white monstrosity sitting in the middle of all the chaos - quite unconcerned. My almost completed Bedouins had been scattered to the four winds.  

After searching as best I could, and consulting my army lists, I realised that only a few figures were lost - 3 x camels, 3 x camel riders and 1 x chariot wheel.  Having just purchased a box of Bedouins to get a miserly 2 camels I was not best pleased.  

Guess that I will just have to 'bite the bullet' and order yet another box!  Still one man's misfortune is another man's profit!  

Later - with a new surplus of Bedouin foot - I re-arranged the deck chairs.  The camels I could now manage but all the riders not so.  Time to rummage around in PSR.  The Zvezda Carthaginian box ZVE8031 has 12 Numidian riders (6 without shields) so I looked carefully at them.

 

Not ideal but acceptable.

In the meantime I sorted out the Nubians and made some progress on the Libyans.  With 2 x 20mm armies ready to photograph I looked for my camera.  All seemed well with the world until I actually tried to take a photograph.  I hadn't realised just how long the camera had been snoozing in the cupboard.  Little or no charge in the thing.  It is also stuck in video mode.  Next job - try to find the manual in order to restore all my settings.  Never rains but it pours!