Almost Free for the Summer. . .

The Elstermuehl near Plessa in Brandenburg. I really like the colors and silhouette of the main part of the the building where the waterwheel is.

Well, only a conference presentation -- on reading compliance among undergrads -- remaining tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, and then I am relatively free until mid-August when it all begins again. A little time daydreaming today about a few more buildings I want to tackle this summer along with wrapping up those various painting odds and ends. And Crann Tara shall soon release several new batches of figures! The two I have my eye on are a generic mounted officer and another on foot peering through a telescope, both wearing open greatcoats. Imagine the possibilities for those two! In the meantime, here are a bunch of photos on which I'll base those three or four new structures. I think it's going to be a good few months.

-- Stokes

A couple of photographs of the same old half-timbered warehouse in Klaipeda (ex-Memel) now and then.

An old German Lutheran church in the former East Prussia near Pogegen.

An old weaver's house in Lower Silesia.

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CelticCurmudgeon said…

My Dear Heinz-Ulrich, Greetings!

It has been a long late winter, early spring season and the muddy roads have certainly slowed communication. The images of these classic buildings are certainly inspirational and ought to lead to an enlarged urban center for your table top armies to defend. Have your engineers given thought to building any walls or to repairing the more ancient walls from medieval times that certainly must have surrounded your urban centers?

Have a wonderful season away from the university and grading papers,

Gerardus Magnus

5:27 AM

A Little More Brushwork. . .

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...

Basic Reds Done at Last. . .

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...

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

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