Taking Stock of the Painted OOB. . .

One evening earlier in the week, I spent several hours carefully examining the Grand Duchy of Stollen collection . Here is a listing of everything that has been painted and glossed up to this point, excluding numerous civilians, the extensive pontoon and transport train, limbers and teams for the existing artillery, many command vignettes, and a couple of light infantry fomrations that rarely see the table.

There is also a unit of 30 metal Spencer Smith cavalry that I painted way back in 2007-2008, that does not really work with the rest of the collection as it has taken shape in the years since. Plus a couple of units of Holger Eriksson figures that featured in the Sittangbad refight long ago at the May 2006 Partizan show, which I managed to snag from painter John Preece back in 2016 or '17. But I digress. Here we go:

Zichenauer OOB

Ermland Garde (All line regiments consist of 60+ figures)

Flickenhoffer Fusiliers

Ernestine-Sachsen Regt.

Wied Infantry

Württemberg Garde zu Fuß

Grenadiers (3 cos. Approximately 45 figures.)

Karlstädter-Lykaner Grenzer (1 co. 15+ figures)

Banal-Grenzinfanterieregiment Nr. 1 (1 co. 15+ figures)

Lauzun’s Legion Hussars (2 sqns Approx. 30 figures)

Batthyani Dragoons (3 sqns Approx. 45 figures)

Anhalt Cuirassiers (2 sqns)

Wurttemburg Leib Grenadiers a Cheval (2 sqns)

Five two-gun companies of artillery (six-figure crews with a mounted officer

Stollenian OOB

Leib (Grand Duchess Sonja’s Own) Regiment

1^st Musketeers

Schaumburg-Lippe-Bueckeburg Regt.

3^rd Garrison Regt. (These belong to my son)

Hansastadtmilitär Provisional Regt.

Grenadiers (2 cos.)

Ansbach-Beyreuth Jaegers (1 co.)

Bosniaken (1 sqn)

Trakehner Dragoons (2 sqns)

Von Trumbach Dragoons (2 sqns)

Five two-gun companies of artillery

A company of Russian artillery (these belong to my son.)

In the next post, I'll provide a glimpse of what resides in the Drawer o' Lead to my immediate left and share the plans for what they'll eventually become on the painting table. Hint: there's still lots more to come. Whew!

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Over on the tabletop, our game remains on hold. The Young Master, at almost 14, (predictably?) has his own activities that take precedence over playing with ol' Dad, and he has been noncommittal about continuing things since the three turns carried out last weekend. A shame since the late afternoon game was starting to become nicely interesting from a command and control perspective. The well-dressed front lines -- See what I did there? -- on both sides soon fell into disarray as they moved forward into musket range with each other.

It was satisfyingly in keeping with what Christopher Duffy, I believe, has written on the subject of order versus disorder once the shooting began in mid-18th century warfare. And our own disarray was not the result of morale checks either, but rather terrain features on the tabletop, which hindered the lengthy lines of miniatures. So, in that respect, our truncated game provided a nice bit of realism.

Hopefully, we'll be able to complete things before those two marauding felines, Gunnlaug and Onyx, intervene!

-- Stokes

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...

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...

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