rakkauden ja epätoivon laulu

[also on BGG.]

I'd been returning again and again to the BGG page for Red November, because I like seeing big games in small boxes. But being unemployed, there's probably better things to be saving my money for than spending it on games that I'm too much of a loner to actually get people to play. Heck, I haven't even tried asking my flatmates - but it doesn't help much that they talk amongst themselves in their own language, which I don't understand.

But I caved and bought Red November today, and after "pimping" out the box with a foamcore insert (went waaaaaaaaaay out of my way to get supplies for *that*) and printing off some BGG reference sheets, I stumbled upon the photo of the painted gnomes on Bruno Faidutti's website (he's one of the designers), and I wondered why I didn't think of painting them.

I haven't significantly flexed my miniatures painting muscles since middle school - ever since by doing so it brought about the end of my pursuit of what led me to painting miniatures in the first place. But now I was inspired.

( A bit picture-heavy? )

And here are those final eight pages.

It's been fun, guys.



   
   

I'm a bit in the mood to write the "official" "one month later" essay, but I'm just a little worried that it'll tick off people like I did with "The Longest Road." Of course my sentiments toward the previously offended person have simmered down a bit, but even still...

As you can see I'm not done with the title page yet - when it's done it'll have a map and just a bit of text.

   

Helsinki stuff should be two more pages ("nifty old mansions along the railroad on the way to Linnanmäki", and "totally not enough photos of Linnanmäki"). See, there's so much of it even though I was only there for a week.

I've been putting off doing the remaining Uni stuff & sauna pics because it's just too much... argh-those-other-students.

   

Interesting Trivia:
Looks like our favourite photographer visited the flower exhibit in Turku the day before I was there. Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3

Okay, this coat of arms took me a full two-and-a-bit hours to draw. I don't like you anymore, Oboe Åbo, but your people are still awesome.

I got a pack of five more sheet protector thingums. This means 10 more pages. I'm not sure if that's "enough".



      

Here's some more pages. I feel "productive" today. I guess the need to finish telling the 'long night' story made me finish up those pages.

I also feel that I probably need to go buy another package of pages; 30 pages won't be enough...