#WIP : la mise en couleurs à l'#aquarelle de #EasterBunny 2024 avance ! Je suis (à nouveau) super en retard pour cause d'inénarrables contretemps et difficultés, mais je préfère faire les choses bien et donc prendre le temps… ;) #art#illustration#bellaminette#Tipeee
#easter#easterbunny
Decades ago, because of some poor planning on my part resulting in a meltdown, I had to explain to my child that I was the Easter bunny. He stopped crying abruptly and said, "You go to all the houses!?!" before the reality of my confession hit him, and everything else it entailed. In many ways, worst Easter ever. But for one fraction of a second, on this day of yearning and miracles, I WAS the Easter Bunny.
I will never get over that moment.
The Doctor, being a time traveller, is not out of place on any garden railway in any period… indeed, one of the consequences of time travel is that there may be several of them. After I’d printed a John Hurt I discovered the Eaglemoss figurines are 1/21 scale and I picked up a few as they are pretty close to 1/19 scale.
They’re also painted, extremely well detailed and very nicely finished, making them good value figures – although unfortunately for those whose railways are out of bounds to Time Lords, it may not be easy to convert them to ‘regular’ people as they are cast from a rather brittle resin – the Doctor has lost his head already in a couple of his incarnations and if I hadn’t resorted to superglue he might have regenerated. I would also recommend cutting the figures from their pedestals with a razor saw rather than trying to prize them out… I managed the latter only once without damaging some shoes.
Anyway, here then are five telesnaps from Doctor Who and the Easter of Doom.
The top image shows the Doctor, fresh from space-sailing with The Eternals, visiting the Moel Rhos railway in the 1950s, where he pays his respect to The Easter Bunny.
https://i0.wp.com/moelrhos.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/03/IMG_9751.jpeg?ssl=1Later still, and with a different face following the Rani’s attempt to create a time manipulator, the Doctor pays another visit to the Moel Rhos when he finds himself in South Wales in the 50s on a holiday he won thanks to being the tenth billionth customer at Navarino Spaceport.
https://i0.wp.com/moelrhos.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/03/IMG_9756.jpeg?ssl=1Having been shot in San Fransisco on the last day of 1999, the Doctor changed again, and later still he seeks escape from the Time War on the Moel Rhos where he is clearing the line of the chickens, who have to take care of egg delivery on the 364 days when The Bunny is not on duty. (I ran low on filament and rather than replacing the spool straight away or risking running out during a big job, I tried using it up by printing a chicken and when there was still some left another chicken, and then another… I ended up with 9 chickens, most still needing paint, and now I need to design a chicken wagon.)
A couple of Easters back I realised the line had no Easter Bunny (not counting the scale 4 meter high monsters who visit occasionally) so I downloaded a rabbit from Thingiverse and printed him. Here he is riding in luxury on a Binnie flat wagon…
There are more than 100 types of #rabbits and hares, both domestic and wild, from snowshoe hares to Flemish giants. Despite their extraordinary ability to reproduce, many wild rabbits are in danger of being eradicated.
Here in Hungary the #Easter holidays are starting tomorrow and we also have Monday off. So, no #sudo / #syslog_ng posts from me for the next four days.