The Grand Duchess and I gave ourselves a day tooling around
I was able to get in about two hours of painting yesterday evening, applying brown to haversacks, musket stocks, and hair. Still not finished with the final batch of Zichenauers though, so tonight I'll begin with the purple facing color on the collars, cuffs, and turnbacks. Hmmm, seems like I just did this with the last batch! Then it's white crossbelts and leather straps, followed by some brass/bronze bits, etc., etc. Since the Grand Duchess leaves for a four-day conference on Thursday morning, I can spend a bit more time wrapping things up at the end of the week/weekend with a relatively clear conscience!
That brings me to my next point of note. While I was puttering around on the computer yesterday afternoon, I received a telephone call from Jonathan Broadus of Hesse-Engelburg! It was great actually getting to speak with another "imagination" aficionado. For about two hours we swapped stories on toy soldiers, painting, online discussion boards, e-bay, our respective jobs, family, and the like. Like all good conversations, ours meandered here and there and back again, covering all kinds of topics.
It was a real privilege to speak with Jonathan, and I hope we do so again sometime. As I mentioned at one point, his
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...
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By the way, do you ever find yourself referring to her as the "Grand Duchess" in circumstances other than with your gaming buddies?
-- Jeff
I got your Prussians all packed up and in the mailbox before 9am this morning, then realized about 5pm that it was a postal holiday. So they'll go back in the mailbox tomorrow. ;)
With all this time on my hands,I cracked on with my 2 regiments of Revell Austrian dragoons and some conversions for staff officers/ADC's. To add a bit of colour to the Austrians, one regiment is in the traditional green but the other is in red coats with sky blue waistcoats etc as per the Osprey book illustration. In one weekend I managed to paint what would usually take me a month or so. Also it was a much needed change from regiment after regiment of Prussian infantry.
Painting stopped when I picked the girls up fifthy and hungry but having had a great time.
Regards,
Guy