A rmed with a second cup of fresh, strong coffee, I messed around a bit this morning with artlist.io using its image to image function in an attempt to convert my hand-drawn map from September 2006 to something that more resembles an old map from the mid-18th century. And just like my experiments with Ninja AI in June, the results are mixed. The above map is pretty good, but Artlist keeps fouling up the place names and has trouble putting a faint overlay of hexes across the entire area. Hexes, admittedly, are not likely to be found on any genuine maps from the era in question, but there we are. Frankly, I prefer the appearance of the Ninja map, but there were problems getting it to correct its errors. Grrrr. As is the case with so much having to do with the various AI's out there now, the output generated is a direct result of the prompts entered. For text alone, and when you develop a lengthy, highly detailed prompt, it is...
After a marathon painting session last night, that’s how I fell at least. So much white everywhere: shoulder belts and musket straps. I feel like Danny from Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King. Anyway, I’ve reached the home stretch with the last batch of Zichenauer infantry. Tonight, we’ll start with the metallics: brass cartridge pouch badges, scabbard tips, and sword hilts plus the officer’s gorget and gold sash. Giddy up!
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I was fortunate to be able to spend a couple of hours at the Warfare wargames show in Reading, UK on saturday morning. For once I did not buy a single figure but stocked up with paints and lots of splendid flags for my SYW armies.
My main purchase were 2 SYW books and the BAR rules. The books were Prussia's Glory by Duffy on Rossbach and Leuthen but the highlight was a large book in German by Dorn and Englemann called Fredericks battles. Contained in this are about 20 fantastic full page plates depicting the various battles and crammed with uniforms etc. My daughter is studying german at the moment so I commandeered her dictionary to try and decifer some of the text. A little expensive but I had been told to go and buy some Christmas presents so there it is.
Regards,
Guy
Thanks for those comments. I will have a fresh look at it to try and spot these faults. I think the translation could take some time. The first word in the title could we thought be translated as either battles or slaughter. We settled on the first.
Finished reading the BAR rules last night and set up a couple of regiments to try out the various aspects such as firing and manoevering. V enjoyable. I will try them out with a brigade sized force at the weekend.
Regards,
Guy
I was definately very tired of 'green' and its variations by the time I was done with my 5 Russian Dragoon Regiments last year.
I note, for myself at least, that when I am tired of painting I start to 'blink' really fast a few times. Once I do that two or three times in a row I know that it is time to stop painting (no matter how far from complete I am) otherwise I will be very 'squinty' for the next day.
I can definately relate to the 'snowblind' idea.
-- Jeff