2020 Advent Calendar: Day 1

 Hello, dear fellow readers!

After a lot of activity during Orctober, it seems that I needed a break before posting anything new on this blog. A break during the whole of November... but I wasn't inactive. After focusing on a single project, I decided to paint any figure I wanted, just for the pleasure of melting colors, as many colors as possible. And here we are, I now have enough figures, single or groups, to show you something different every day... and the timing is perfect, since we are in December, so this year, you will find an Advent Calendar in these pages.

Remember that an advent calendar is a way to help children to wait for Christmas... I hope it will work :)

Let's start with the figures for Day 1:

These guys are Swiss halberdiers from the 15th century - exactly the sort of men that fought against the army of the Duke of Burgundy. So let's say that, in this winter atmosphere, they are looking for food in the woods around the city of Nancy, in 1477.

A closer look:

It looks like they eventually caught birds for dinner today.

Hope you like them (the guys, and also the birds) :)

See you tomorrow for the next image.

Musician of the month: Swiss drummer, 15th century

Remember my challenge, to paint a musician every month ? I explained here what happened in 2017. In 2018, I'm in for another attempt. This is the musician for February: a Swiss drummer from the 15th century, when the Swiss confederation was at war with Burgundy.

You will recognize a drummer from an Ultima Ratio set, UR008 Swiss Infantry (Bern) released en 2017.
For those who appreciate Fantasy, you will notice that this guy might also be used as a drummer in a Empire army from the city of Talabheim (from the Ancient World created by GW).

So this year, two musicians so far:
- January: Ancient Egyptian drummer
- February: Medieval Swiss drummer

For March, I would like to paint a man from another era, and another music instrument. Will you guess ?