Happy New Year from the Grand Duchy of Stollen!

Wherever you are in the world, and regardless of your precise wargaming interests, here's to painting more figures, reducing the lead/plastic mountain, reading more about our chosen periods, and the staging of more games in 2014.

-- Stokes

P.S.

And I don't know about you, but I've had enough rich Christmas food, candy, and desserts to last me for a few months. . . Well, a few weeks at least.

Comments

Anonymous said…

A happy and fruitful New Year to you and your family.
May your brush stay pointed and your hand steady.
Cheers.
Neil.

2:16 PM

warpaintjj said…

My plans are exactly as you have stated - best wishes to you too, fond regards, Jeremy.

7:35 PM

CelticCurmudgeon said…

I'm off to the painting table after this post. Have a happy, prosperous and paintiful (A created word that we both understand!)New Year.
Gerardus Magnus
Archbishop Emeritus

(I wish I could get the chancellory workers to bring fresh water to the painting table.)

10:53 AM

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...

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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