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

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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