My usual photographic placeholder until I have something more interesting to show and tell. W ell, Sir. . . Grading is all done, final grades were submitted last Tuesday the 5th, and I presented a poster at our internal teaching and learning conference on Wednesday. The last department meeting for the year followed on Thursday, and yesterday (Friday) was a "No Day." It's finally time to begin applying acrylic gloss to those 60 or so Anhalt-Zerbst figures. And at long last, glossing will get underway later today. I'll start with the mounted colonel and the first 20 or so figures completed late last fall. Or maybe it was during the early winter? In any event, I'll move onto the next 20 and so forth if that goes quickly enough . I usually opt for a couple of coats to make'em nice and shiny with a third application of the stuff to those raised areas where the figures are more likely to get touched in the handling. You know. ...
Mid-18th Century Painting and Collecting with Occasional Tabletop Games in the Grand Manner Since 2006