Austrian Limber Teams Finished!!!

Here they are, all finished barring three or four tiny, tiny touch-ups. Otherwise, I'm calling 'em done!

Well, some days just work out well. I managed to finish an article (nothing hobby related sadly) that I've been tinkering with all summer, the Young Master has had a good day, and I've managed to complete the limited groundwork on those six limbers that have been on the painting table for the last month.

As was the case with all of those wagons and carts I painted during 2014, the impression I have tried to convey is of vehicles on very minor country roads with grass and clumps of weeds along the edges and, in some cases, up the center. Materials used include fine sand scavanged from my maternal grandparents' creek bed during Summer 1984, Acrylic matt medium, Burnt Umber acrylic ink, tan acrylic paint to dry-brush, and Woodland Scenics fine grass and shrub materials, the latter held in place with tiny drops of super glue.

The only thing that I wish I had done a better job with was in disguising the bases of the horses a bit better, but ah well. Next time. On the table, they will still look pretty good. I'll have the chance to do a more convincing job of base disguising when I get to that step with the six Prussian limber teams that are waiting for the base-coat of white acrylic gesso in a couple of evenings once I replenish the will to paint.

In the meantime, it's time to continue with the next turn in The Battle of Doltz laid out on the wargaming table.

-- Stokes

Finally, here are two of the recently finished Austrian limber teams and riders with the addition of two MiniFig 25mm guns, which were finished eight or nine years ago. . . with a different, more lemony shade of yellow no less.

Presenting the Anspach-Bayreuth Kuirassiere!!!

Here they are, with the rearmost nine figures still drying, three squadrons of the Anspach-Bayreuth Kuirassiere, now in the service of the Grand Duchy of Stollen. And now, it's onto that artillery!

And It's the End of September!!!

Saxony's Ploetz Cuirassiers, an illustration lifted from the Kronoskaf website, which has thus far guided my spectacularly glacial painting of 30 28mm Eureka Saxon cuirassiers purchased all the way back in October 2016. A gray, cool Saturday here in Mid-Michigan with rain in the forecast. The Grand Duchess is away at a conference, so it's just "The Boys" here at home. The Young Master (almost 15) has retreated to his room for something or other following breakfast while I have stolen back down here to Zum Stollenkeller (masquerading as my office) with a second mug of coffee and both cats comfortably ensconced nearby. Enjoying the late morning and still in my pajamas! Not much planned for today beyond designing a couple of promotional flyers for workshops my department is presenting (small parties we will throw?) in October and November. With maybe a bit of on the next podcast script. More important, I am toying with the idea of returning for an hour or...

Happy September 2nd!!!

T his weekend, the question of what, precisely, constitutes an "imagination" came up in an online forum of which I am a part. To be fair, the issue originates from further afield in a Facebook group that I am not a member of, but I weighed in with my own view. The following was in response to the question posed yesterday (Sunday) morning by an exasperated member of my own rather more gentlemanly town square, who had been met with a strident response to information he shared about his (admirable) hobby activities on said FB group. Here is, more or less, what I wrote: To my mind, the concept of imagi-nation(s) is a broad one. It can range from historical refights or what-if scenarios/battles/campaigns between armies of a particular era, to completely made up combatants operating in a quasi-historical setting, to the rather generic red and blue forces of the Prussian Kriegspiel that examine a particular tactical problem, task, or exercise. ...

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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