Cruisin' to the Finish Line!

Completed a few small things on my Von Laurenz Musketeers yesterday. The main things left to complete are the muskets and the central flag design. I tried painting a vaguely Austrian/Russian-looking eagle on one side and was not pleased with the result, so I painted over it with orange and again have a blank orange lozenge to illustrate. Anyway, finishing by September 1^st will be no problem although the application of a clear protective “varnish” might have to wait until next weekend, depending on available time this week.

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Bloggerator said…

Oh, what I wouldn't give for some pictures!

1:27 AM

Bluebear Jeff said…

Allow me (as a representative of the Fifth Prince Bruno von Ursa of Saxe-Bearstein) to second the request of the illustrious Duke of Alzheim.

Pictures please!

-- Bluebear_Jeff

5:20 AM

Poruchik said…

Good Prince,

The Elector of Vulgaria, the high mighty and impotent Vleg Donislov has requested pictures of the brave regiments.

Assuming that you are unable to produce verification of an Army the Grand Duchy of Stollen could find itself in trouble with it's neighbors!

Peace can only be maintained through a verifiable defense.

yours in magnanomy, etc, etc....

Donald~

2:32 PM

And We're Off!!!

Arrrgh! Gotta go back into camera settings on my iPhone to bring all of the frame into focus. Blast! Painting is underway on the 60 or so Minden Austrians, which are slated to become my version of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment of AWI renown. More or less indistinguishable from Austrians of the era really, right down to the red facings and turnbacks, but the eventual flags (already in my files) will set them apart. I went ahead and based-coated all of them over a couple of days lthe last week of August, using a mix of light gray and white acrylic gesso, before next applying my usual basic alkyd oil flesh tone to the faces and hands. In a day or two, I'll hit that with Army Painter Flesh Wash to tone things down a bit and bring some definition to the faces and hands. As usual, the plan is to focus on about 20 figures at a time, splitting the regiment roughly into thirds along with the color party and regimental staff. Depending on ...

The 18th century? What's the Fascination?

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Sunday Morning Coffee with AI. . .

A rmed with a second cup of fresh, strong coffee, I messed around a bit this morning with artlist.io using its image to image function in an attempt to convert my hand-drawn map from September 2006 to something that more resembles an old map from the mid-18th century. And just like my experiments with Ninja AI in June, the results are mixed. The above map is pretty good, but Artlist keeps fouling up the place names and has trouble putting a faint overlay of hexes across the entire area. Hexes, admittedly, are not likely to be found on any genuine maps from the era in question, but there we are. Frankly, I prefer the appearance of the Ninja map, but there were problems getting it to correct its errors. Grrrr. As is the case with so much having to do with the various AI's out there now, the output generated is a direct result of the prompts entered. For text alone, and when you develop a lengthy, highly detailed prompt, it is...

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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