Gallping toward the Midnight Deadline. . .

It's 10:28am here. We're in the Homestretch. Can I make the February 15th-May 15th Painting Challenge Deadline by Midnight CDT tonight?

Just a few things to wrap up here on those two kneeling Minden Croat vignettes. Some final painting on the dead horse for the first base. Red facings, lace, shoulder belts, and small straps plus a bit of dark lining on the second. Two coats of acrylic gloss for both (four figures in total). Finish with groundwork which involves a few different steps.

Not that much really. Should be able to accomplish everything in fairly short order. But hold on a moment. Factor in May Term teaching today for three hours, mowing the grass late this afternoon before it rains again (possibly the forecast says), supper, and the usual evening family things. Hmm. . . Is it possible? Well, I'll give it the old college try. The Grand Duchess might be on her own this evening after the Young Master has turned in at 8pm. Terraining the bases might, however, need to wait until tomorrow evening. Stand by.

On another note, the GD of S blog has managed to pick up a few more followers in the last several weeks. A hearty "Welcome!" to all of you who have just tuned in. Tell your wargaming friends and neighbors. Help spread the good word. Let's see if we can hit the 200 followers mark by September 1st as I continue assembling and painting vignettes plus that planned reinforced company of pioneers/miners along with some other (a-) historical surprises that are in the the longer term painting queue. Once we are back from Mexico in July, I've also got some actual gaming planned too. It's been too long. Summers are a good time east of the sun and west of the moon here in the Grand Duchy of Stollen.

Update. . .
I got as far as a coat of acrylic glass yesterday evening by about 10:30pm and the decided to hit the sack. The gloss seemed to be taking quite a while to dry anyway, but the figures look good this morning. Limited terrain work this evening plus the inevitable touch up or two, and then I take a break for the remainder of May while I write the article that goes with all of these different vignettes. Photos to follow later this evening.

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A Little More Brushwork. . .

A little more brushwork on the first batch of (my version of) the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment yesterday (Saturday). Taking a different tack this time and addressing many of the details first before the white coats and other larger areas of uniform. The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I've painted the (dark) red stocks of the enlisted men. Always a difficult and frustrating item to paint, it made sense to paint from the inside out as it were and get that particular detail out of the way first rather than try to paint it in later after much other painting has been accomplished. Trying to reduce the need for later retouching of other items on the figures you understand. Hopefully, I will be able to get back to these later today after a second trip back to the Apple Store for help with a couple of new iPad issues and, following the return home, some revision of Google Slides for tomorrow's meetings with my students. -- Stokes P.S. And according t...

Basic Reds Done at Last. . .

S till quite a way to go with the current batch of 20 human figures and a horse (of course), but they're actually starting to look like something after all of the red distinctions. Quite a bit of painting in hour-long sessions the last week as and when time has allowed. Mostly applying the basic dark red to facing areas and turnbacks followed by the inevitable touch-ups to clean up wobbly edges and those misplaced, minute splotches of Citadel Khorne Red. They're looking like so many Austrian infantry regiments of the era at this point, but the eventual flags will turn them magically into the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment, more or less, of the AWI period. But I'm getting a bit ahead of myself. One frustrating point (ahem) of sad discovery. I've started trying to use those Winsor & Newton 'Series Seven' brushes (#1 rounds) purchased last spring, and the blasted things simply will not keep a point. Very frustrating since I have heard over the y...

It's Early Days Yet. . .

M aking some early progress with Batch A of the Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment over the last several days/evenings. Nothing terribly exciting just yet, but the basic black, brown, and flesh areas are done as are the green bases, and gray undercoat. The latter two areas needed some careful retouching early in the week. Next up, the neck stocks. I might just do these in red for the enlisted men although some of my source material suggest they were black, but I always look for an excuse to shake things up a bit. Any errant splotches of red (or black) can be covered with another application of light gray before I move onto the next step. "Giddy up!" as one Cosmo Kramer might have said. -- Stokes

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