Hungarians getting Inky

After another week of solid wall building I just had time to ink and varnish the Hungarians. I tend to use a 1:2 mix of nut brown ink to water nowadays for pretty much everything. It just gives enough definition to indented detail without me actually having to paint it in. It also dulls the over-saturated and overly light style that I have settled on down to a respectably scruffy finish. The picture was taken before varnishing.

The 6 year old in me still likes the toy soldier look without ink, but hey, I’m a grown-up ….. look at my grown-up wall! The temperatures are now reliably below freezing overnight, so no more cementing until spring, which in the UK is anywhere from late March to early May. If it were not for tarmac, we would have Rasputitsa for half the year. On the plus side, fresh vegetables can be plucked out of the ground year round, so no pickled cabbage. As ever, up-to date pictures are here.

Completely off topic, my retirement present to our Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, (who is Greek), was a bottle with this label …