Merry Christmas from The Grand Duchy of Stollen

Merry Christmas to Jeff Hudelson, Paul Robinson, Greg Horne, Murdock, and to everyone else who regularly visits the Grand Duchy. The Grand Duke Irwin-Amadeus II and the Grand Duchess Sonja send all of you the very best wishes for the season, including good health, family, and hope for the coming year.

Merry Christmas!!!

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Anonymous said…

Festive Yule greetings to all at the Grand Duchy of Stollen.

12:29 PM

Bluebear Jeff said…

Thank you for your kind sentiments. Rest assured that my dear lady wife and I return the like thoughts to you and the lovely Sonja.

-- Jeff & Lani

12:39 PM

Anonymous said…

Festive Greetings and Seasons wishes to you and yours Stokes.

4:40 AM

Anonymous said…

God Jul from the Grand Duchess of Schleiz and her Lady-in-Waiting. We are touring through the area and wanted to say that we are impressed with the architecture. You must be using the same designer as my late husband did when he helped his cousin construct the new portion of Szczecin after the fire.

7:27 PM

A Little More Brushwork. . .

A little more brushwork on the first batch of (my version of) the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment yesterday (Saturday). Taking a different tack this time and addressing many of the details first before the white coats and other larger areas of uniform. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I've painted the (dark) red stocks of the enlisted men. Always a difficult and frustrating item to paint, it made sense to paint from the inside out as it were and get that particular detail out of the way first rather than try to paint it in later after much other painting has been accomplished. Trying to reduce the need for later retouching of other items on the figures you understand. Hopefully, I will be able to get back to these later today after a second trip back to the Apple Store for help with a couple of new iPad issues and, following the return home, some revision of Google Slides for tomorrow's meetings with my students. -- Stokes P.S. And according t...

Basic Reds Done at Last. . .

S till quite a way to go with the current batch of 20 human figures and a horse (of course), but they're actually starting to look like something after all of the red distinctions. Quite a bit of painting in hour-long sessions the last week as and when time has allowed. Mostly applying the basic dark red to facing areas and turnbacks followed by the inevitable touch-ups to clean up wobbly edges and those misplaced, minute splotches of Citadel Khorne Red. They're looking like so many Austrian infantry regiments of the era at this point, but the eventual flags will turn them magically into the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment, more or less, of the AWI period. But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. One frustrating point (ahem) of sad discovery. I've started trying to use those Winsor & Newton 'Series Seven' brushes (#1 rounds) purchased last spring, and the blasted things simply will not keep a point. Very frustrating since I have heard over the y...

It's Early Days Yet. . .

M aking some early progress with Batch A of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment over the last several days/evenings. Nothing terribly exciting just yet, but the basic black, brown, and flesh areas are done as are the green bases, and gray undercoat. The latter two areas needed some careful retouching early in the week. Next up, the neck stocks. I might just do these in red for the enlisted men although some of my source material suggest they were black, but I always look for an excuse to shake things up a bit. Any errant splotches of red (or black) can be covered with another application of light gray before I move onto the next step. "Giddy up!" as one Cosmo Kramer might have said. -- Stokes

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