Desktop update: a new companion

So far winter has been more like a cold autumn around here, but a bit more than a week ago things changed. With temperatures of -5 during the day and -15 during the night it's exceptionally cold this time of year. We had only one snow shower so far, which is a real blessing since traffic messes up pretty quickly here in Belgium.

The Drune unit is getting some delay. When I started working on them the plan was to get them ready before Painting Crusade IX, but since that's highly unlikely my motivation for the project has dropped somewhat :) But the figures have their skin basecoated and shaded already. It's going to be one of those on and off projects I guess.

For some reason Infinity has triggered my interest again. So I dug up a figure I bought years ago and paint it up quickly. I think there's about 4 hours of work in this figure:

And then for the title of this blog post. A new friend has joined me in the painting studio:

Knee problems caused me to quit running (which I did 3 times a week) and owning a racing bike is a dream of mine I have for a long while now, so I decided to make the investment. I'm not going to take it outside with those cold temperatures, so I mounted it on a roller. The downside is that I now have to choose again between painting and sporting when I have an hour time :)