Weekly News: Dusty Delay

Yesterday evening I decided to take a small break from paining and wanted to save earth from the invasion of villainous aliens, aka. I played a game of "X-COM: Enemy Unknown". During a tremendous gunfight with some invaders the fans of my computer accelerated and made a rather loud whooshing sound. Unfortunately it wasn't a sign of support of my loyal comrade but a sign of deadly peril: The CPU temperature raise to a dangerous level! Since it was rather late already I decided to turn the computer of and check it today.

After a uneasy night -not because of the computer, because of our daughter who joined us at about two o'clock- I but my old friend on the operating table and opened his chest carefully. At first glance I realized that he had to pay for my last efforts on my workbench. The whole interior was covered with fine dusty powder; probably the remains of my last airbrushing sessions.

Can any of you distinguish the different colour particles in the dust?

However I decided to give my computer a long and comfortable hoover session after which he looked in the more or less clean state he's used to.

But I decided to go a step further. I spent the whole day with cleaning and tidying up my workbench and the storage room it is located in. Finally I turned this deadly trap for any allergy sufferer into a more or less pleasant place. Actually I suppose it wasn't cleaner since who moved here.
My dear fellow Old Nick will be delighted to read that because he'll spent the next night at ours and will have a camp bed in here. Anyhow judge the result yourselves:

Monty's workbench as clean as possible.

You see the workbench prepared for the next painting session. My recent project the Austrians in front of my new "Painting Chest" another outcome of this weeks work. Technically I took an old wooden box and inserted some separation slats. Now I can sort my paints in it and take it to the living room or wherever for some painting work.

My "Painting Chest"...

In spite of all those imponderabilia I was able to get some more paint onto my Austrians. At least the facings, the muskets and some minor parts are painted now. Here's a snapshot of them with a close-up view of my favourite miniature in this batch: The sapper.

The first half of the Hoch- und Deutschmeister. Some more progress.