Getting There with the RSM95 Grenadiers!

Well, unfortunately the Grand Duchess has a nasty cold and has been in bed all day sleeping and reading gardening magazines. Between my visits with meals on trays, cold/cough medicines, etc., I've had quite a bit of unstructured play time to myself today. So, I've managed to get quite a bit of detail work finished on the first 24 RSM figures.

Still enough to do, but you can see that I've finished the red vests along with the red facings and turnbacks, yellow lace on collars and cuffs, plus the frilly white cravats on the officers and shirt cuffs on the enlisted men. And not too many mistakes. . .

On that note, I think I've finally got this neat "mistake removal" trick down. When you get paint where you don't want it, immediately rinse your brush well, leave the bristles fairly wet, and begin brushing over the area where you've made your mistake. You might have to wipe the bristles a time or two on your paper towel to remove the moisture and color you are lifting off the figure, but it works nicely.

Once you've removed the offending color from the area where you most deifinitely DID NOT intend to put it, just continue painting as before. I beleive, if memory serves me correctly, that either Bill Protz or Jim Purky suggested this little tip on the Old School Wargaming Yahoo group some months ago, and it's been very helpful. So, hats off and a hearty thank-you to Bill and Jim!

Anyway, tomorrow it's on to the white shoulderbelts and musket straps followed by the musket stocks themselves if I have the time. I've got about 20 student bibliography projects to look at tomorrow though, so you never know. But then it is April Fool's Day, so. . .

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. ...

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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