The Grand Duchess of Stollen Comes Through Yet Again!

Just a quick note before Christmas dinner is served. . . Among my wonderful Christmas gifts from the Grand Duchess Sonja today was a small package from the Dayton Painting Consortium -- US distributor of the RSM 95 range of figures. Inside the carton were over 60 Prussian Potsdam Grenadiers, drummers, officers, NCO's, mounted colonel, and a few extras. Enough figures to create my own version of the famous Erbprinz Regiment from Young and Lawford's Charge! And the RSM are not out of scle wth my plastic Revell figures or MiniFigs either. What a Christmas it's been!!!

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Bluebear Jeff said…

Ah, what a gem your lovely Sonja is!

As you may recall, I'm a great fan of the RSM figures. They are what I am using for my Saxe-Bearstein forces.

Take good care of your charming lady companion . . . she obviously takes good care of you.

Merry Christmas!

-- Jeff

2:42 AM

Anonymous said…

SUPERIOR from the Grand Duchess of Stollen!

Much praise for such a wonderful lady!

Cheers

1:46 PM

Anonymous said…

In twenty years of marriage I've never even got close to having my wife buy figures - let alone a complete regiment with staff!

you need to take really good care of the Grand Duchess because she is a star.

11:57 AM

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...

Happy September 2nd!!!

T his weekend, the question of what, precisely, constitutes an "imagination" came up in an online forum of which I am a part. To be fair, the issue originates from further afield in a Facebook group that I am not a member of, but I weighed in with my own view. The following was in response to the question posed yesterday (Sunday) morning by an exasperated member of my own rather more gentlemanly town square, who had been met with a strident response to information he shared about his (admirable) hobby activities on said FB group. Here is, more or less, what I wrote: To my mind, the concept of imagi-nation(s) is a broad one. It can range from historical refights or what-if scenarios/battles/campaigns between armies of a particular era, to completely made up combatants operating in a quasi-historical setting, to the rather generic red and blue forces of the Prussian Kriegspiel that examine a particular tactical problem, task, or exercise. ...

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