Wolves

After wrapping up the Dark Angels space marines, I went back to painting the miniatures from the Castle Ravenloft game.  What I've not mentioned before was that part of the reason I started this new hobby of painting miniatures is because I've been playing the Castle Ravenloft board game with some friends.

I actually bought the Citadel Starter Pack (which contained the marines I posted before as well as a brush and some paint) as it was a good way to get some basic tools and instructions on how to paint minis.

So with the Dark Angels space marines done, it was time to get back to the board game.*

This is meant to be a wolf in a ghostly blue colour

Three wolves (duh)

A werewolf - done in the same blue as the wolves

A back view of the werewolf

While I'm reasonably happy with the wolves considering that this is the first time I went "off instruction" to paint a mini, I have to say that I'm really not very happy with the werewolf.  What I was trying to do was to highlight the werewolf to show light bouncing off the fur - which I failed miserably at.

Still, the bright side is that under dark lighting, it doesn't look too bad.
:)


* Actually, I tried to paint some of the rats in the board game after doing one of the Space Marines.  However, that failed so miserably that their horrible visage shall never haunt the halls of this blog!

Ocean Park

We went out to Ocean Park during Chinese New Year.  As you can imagine, the place was packed to capacity with the influx of tourists from Mainland China.  In fact, it got to the stage that even walking around the park was a chore.

No surprise that the park actually had to halt ticket sales for several hours due to the crowds!

Gordon on the cable car

We were actually very lucky to get a good picture of Gordon on the cable car.  For most of the trip, he actually had a slightly worried expression on his face as a result of the height.

Family picture after getting off the cable car

Scaring the jelly fish

One of the great things about Ocean Park is that it lets you view lots of different animals.  In that sense, its a lot better than Disneyland which is completely focused on rides.  One of the exhibits is a jelly fish museum at the end of which is a screen with screensaver jelly fish projected onto it.  The cool thing is that if you move up to the jelly fish, they will react to your presence and swim away.  As you can imagine, the kids spent a bit of time there.

Selling fruit in Old Hong Kong Street

No trip to Ocean Park is complete without a visit to the pandas