There's a New Blog in Town. . .

Berliner Landmiliz, 1760. You can see where my mind is headed, can't you?

Breaking News! Phil's War Cabinet is back! Noted wargamer Phil Olley has been hard at work behind the scenes, and it looks like his new blog is going to be an amazing ride chocked full of visual goodies and inspiring copy. Do yourselves a favor and toodle on over to Phil's War Cabinet right now. Have a look around and either bookmark or, better yet, click on 'follow'. This is destined to become one of the greats I'm certain.

In other news, the Battle of the Elbow River has obviously taken a brief hiatus. The Grand Duchess and Young Master returned last week, which has eaten into my available freetime considerably, much as I love and missed them. And then, in a double whammy worthy of a WWF tag-team move, I looked at the calendar and noticed, almost as an afterthought, that it was the final week of summer vacation. Which meant that it was time for. . . the dreaded annual revision of course syllabi. And it's gets better, since I have also had to plan and write a new course syllabus, in addition, from the ground up! A tedious temporal sinkhole at best, let me assure you. Classes for Fall 2013 start tomorrow, Wednesday, August 21st. Need I say more?

Hopefully, life permitting, I can wrap up the game during the approaching weekend and see how things pan out between generals de Latte and von Tschtschke before launching headlong into another three-month painting challenge on August 30th. Or was it September 1st? No matter. Time to get moving on all fronts. Time and unpainted miniatures wait for no man.

Comments

Phil said…

Thanks for the "plug" for the new blog, Stokes.
Phil

1:00 AM

CelticCurmudgeon said…

My Dear Heinz-Ulrich,

I can commiserate with your plight. Many were the lost weeks in August as curricula were prepared and lessons designed. Now that the Church Fathers have consented to my retirement, these thoughts fade into the warm glow of memory. Have a wonderful semester!
Your Friend,
Gerardus Magnus
Retired Archbishop and University Lecturer

10:39 AM

Scheck said…

I also put already a link into my blog to Phil´s Wargaming blog. Thanks for this news.
_Peter

3:11 AM

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

And We're Off!!!

Arrrgh! Gotta go back into camera settings on my iPhone to bring all of the frame into focus. Blast! Painting is underway on the 60 or so Minden Austrians, which are slated to become my version of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment of AWI renown. More or less indistinguishable from Austrians of the era really, right down to the red facings and turnbacks, but the eventual flags (already in my files) will set them apart. I went ahead and based-coated all of them over a couple of days lthe last week of August, using a mix of light gray and white acrylic gesso, before next applying my usual basic alkyd oil flesh tone to the faces and hands. In a day or two, I'll hit that with Army Painter Flesh Wash to tone things down a bit and bring some definition to the faces and hands. As usual, the plan is to focus on about 20 figures at a time, splitting the regiment roughly into thirds along with the color party and regimental staff. Depending on ...

The Eventual Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment. . .

The Anhalt-Zerbst regiment musters in the drill square to sort themselves into platoons and companies during the coming weeks Fall maneuvers if you will. A large dose of real life the last few days with the start of classes next Monday, various preparatory meetings, and finishing up a few other things this week. But, I managed to sort out 60 or so Minden Austrian infantry from the pile and get 'em stuck to temporary painting bases. Must carefully drill out the hands of several NCOs for flagpoles and pole arms this weekend before the usual basecoat. I'm thinking of mixing the usual white gesso with the usual light gray to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Applying both base- and undercoat in one fell swoop as my grandmother used to say. In the meantime, the recently finished squadron of Saxon cuirassiers has been placed carefully in one of the clear acrylic boxes on my shelves until I have the suitable flag to affix. -- Sto...

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