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...
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O'Malley's Irish Grenzers are in the Church . . . and probably into the communion wine as well . . . and who wants to tangle with drunken Irish Grenzers?
-- Jeff
Jim
Brent
To me the scenery is spot on. It is a funny thing but I find a very abstract table allows more room for imagination than a detailed diorama.
I can see the light infantry scrambling among the trees and slipping on the leaves and mud. Feet scuffing up the smell of wet leaf mould to mingle with the damp rotten egg smell of the black powder. Bullets zipping overhead and showering dead wood and bark onto the sheltering infantry below.
Hmm my afternoon Assam seems unusually trong today, perhaps a lie down now.
John
Congratulations to you both for an entertaining and vicarious read. Your satisfaction must be at a very high level. Bravo as well for this new way of playing and communicating with each other and to the rest of us about it.
Applause and Ovations!
Encore mes amis,
Bill (Gallia)