2500+ Visits and Counting

Thank you very much to everyone who has visited The Grand Duchy of Stollen 1768 blog!!! We’re now up over the 2500 mark, and it’s amazing how quickly this has happened in the last few weeks. Wow!

Yesterday, I finished the painting touch-ups on the two guns for the artillery battery belonging to Stollen. I also hit the artillery crew with their coat of Future floor finish, and the guns await the same treatment over on the painting/radio desk right now. Photos will follow here in just a few days. Stay tuned!

Best of all, I began the painting work on my two mounted generals and their aide de camp. These three figures will represent the Grand Duke Irwin-Amadeus II, who will resemble Frederick the Great, and his second in command General Von Maur. Their hussar aid will be Captain Rudolf-Michael von Schenker, who already has a lime green bag atop his brown busby. I’m going to enjoy working on these three figures later this afternoon!

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Here's an RSM Painting Update

Here's a picture illustrating my (S-L-O-W) progress with the second company of Stollen's Leib (Grand Duchess Sonja's Own) Grenadiers. You can see I'm doing things a bit differently this time, altering the painting process to keep it interesting basically. This evening, I'll do the white gaiters and, if that goes reasonably quickly, and time allows, the red breeches. Still lots to do, but I like the way these fine fellows are shaping up along side the completed 1st company that's standing in formation just off camera, to the left here. Until tonight then!

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!

Having a "No Day". . .

F or the almost 20 years that she lived in Mexico, one of my late mother's Irish friends frequently mentioned having a "No Day." A day with no social obligations, chores, tasks, or other work that interfered with whatever personal interests took one's fancy on the day in question. Since today -- a gray and chilly Saturday -- is Mom's birthday, the Grand Duchess is out with friends, and the Young Master is ensconced on the sofa in the TV room with a cold, yours truly is taking his own such No Day. I think Mom would approve of my decision to make the world go away, as the old Eddie Arnold song intoned, even if only for a little while. So, I will spend Saturday afternoon focused on that first squadron and small regimental staff of Eureka Saxon cuirassiers. These have stood waiting untouched over on the painting table for almost three weeks while we skied and otherwise gadded about with snowy, winter outdoor activities. I hope to share a painting update Sunday...

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