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The Missing Gulyás. . .

The until recently missing figure, known henceforth as Goulash the Shirker.   S ounds like a lost episode of Wallace and Gromit , eh?  Sean the Sheep might want to keep his head down though. Just returned from another extended ski weekend sans the Grand Duchess and Young Master, it's Spring Break Week, and time to get myself back to the painting table to maintain some forward momentum.  There's a skate ski reference in their somewhere given my work on V1 and V2 Alternate technique the last few days.  But I digress! I've decided to name this particular figure Gulyás the Shirker because, well, he is something of a sad sack who manages to avoid his duties, delay following orders, and go suddenly absent without leave.  Sort of a Balkan Beetle Bailey who gives his sergeant fits and, as a result, is more or less on permanent KP duty.  Or at least anywhere the action is not.  The moniker seems rather fitting for a misplaced figure that has managed to escape ...