We will be leaving India in 4 months. Where di the time go to. Whilst there are things I shall not miss - the poor air quality in Delhi is one thing, especially in the Winter - thee are plenty of things that I will be sorry to part from. Wild life is one of them.

We have just finished a long trip, our annual holiday and chose to spend it in India, travelling.

 

 

And seeing a few of the locals.



 

So I suppose I had better get back to it.  This year so far has been one of ups and downs, the ups including my youngest's wedding and my eldest daughter finally getting some published, paid work. The downs were the loss of my mother to cancer, a month short of her 85th birthday.
As a result I have spent a good portion of the year in India on my own, with a few trips back home as and when needed. I am looking forward to going back for a holiday, and to meet up with friends and family, for a whole month, well almost.
While I have been here on my own though painting of wargames stuff has proceeded at nearly industrial proportions. This has been possible because of the discovery of an excellent art shop in the next enclave that does a neat line in spray paints, allowing a proper primer to be put on 28mm vehicles, especially those dodgy bits under the tracks where the brush just does not seem to want to go to.
Inroads have also been made into the 1815 project, formerly known as the Waterloo project, but in an attack of reality, much downscaled.  I will never paint them all in time so....
I am also most impressed with the new Warlord Plastics, in particular the Waterloo British. The first company drew its fatigues  today. They look neat and trim and business like. I was not sure when I first saw the pictures of them, they seemed a little malformed with great ham-like fists and Frankenstein boots. Fortunately this was just a trick of the camera. All are in march attack but not in step, but there is a pleasant feeling of movement to the unit. I really must get  some piccies up.

So this is one image that sticks with me from a recent trip to Anand Lok - a village with an Ashram come Hotel about 24 km beyond Rishikesh. We arrived in the middle of nowhere on the road to Dehradun. The taxi stopped and the driver said, "Just leave your bags there and walk down to the river, they will be brought on, but you need to take the boat across. This was the boat that ferried us across the Gunga to Anand Lok. And yes our bags did follow.

And in India ego

Did I say West Africa? Well that was a year ago - well more than.  I have now moved with work and for the last month I have been settling in to a new posting in New Delhi. the troops of course are yet to join me - I am told that they are now at sea.  Hopefully they may arrive before the end of the month.  In the meantime I shall have to sort some of the old pictures of games past and indeed some of the elhi and Agra that I have accumulated since we arrived.

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This blog is created to keep an eye on the wargaming projects that I am undetaking in exile in West Africa.