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I joined the group thinking this would be great. I didn't know what to paint until I started thinking about Around the World in Eighty Days.... suddenly I knew that the box needed Phileas Fogg and Passpartout!
I had recently purchased some West Wind Victorian Gentlemen, and swapped for some old Foundry Old West figures.
We tacked them up on the ceiling of Bob Kelly's Gamers Haven shop ceiling, built a scaffold and ran off some Italian speaking guy, told him Rome was in Italy and he would have to trip over the Da Vinci Code people to get to the Sistine Chapel.
Anyway, we took pictures of the completed miniatures near the Coeur d'Alene resort.
The big tourist attraction up here is the lake, our mountains and crossroads to a lot of other things. We are close to Canada, Montana and Eastern Washington.
Warning: Commercial...
Coeur d'Alene (KOOR da-LAIN), city (1990 pop. 24,563), Kootenai co., N Idaho, 30 mi/48 km E of Spokane Wash; 47 degrees 42'N 116 degrees 47'W. Elev. 2,187 ft/667 m. A tourist and lumbering center situated on the N end of Coeur d'Alene L., at the outlet of Spokane R., W of the Coeur d'Alene Mts.; gateway to a beautiful summer and winter resort area. Lumber; meat processing; printing and publishing; concrete mfg. Fort Coeur d'Alene (later Fort Sherman) est. 1876. The city grew around the fort after the discovery (1883) of rich silver, lead, and zinc lodes and after the mining boom of 1884. Hq. of Coeur d'Alene Natl. Forest and seat of North Idaho Jr. Col. Inc. 1907.
I recieved the box on Saturday, but didn't get back in town until Sunday. We opened it and went oooh... aaahhh at all the superb paint jobs. Phileas and Passpartout climbed aboard, I packed the original box inside a bigger box, and shipped it to California. Postcards were added and pictures posted!