The Table Has Been Set. . .

Time late this afternoon to snap a few informal shots of the next battlefield, which I have finally had a few minute to set up on the 6'x12' table. The scenario for the next battle is C.S. Grant's 'Holding Action (1)' from Scenarios for Wargames (pp. 14-15). The scenery includes various scratch-built houses and barns, Hotz Artworks fields and roads, cheap cake decoration trees purchased nine or ten years ago, and four large Woodland Scenics Ready Grass mats. Probably not the time this weekend to set up the soldiers just yet (140+ final student papers. . . sigh), but I can at least have fun daydreaming about doing so in the meantime.

-- Stokes

Comments

Neil Moulden said…

Looking good. Can't wait to see all the toys set up.

6:28 PM

David Cooke said…

Nice looking table. I look forward to the game!

5:57 AM

CelticCurmudgeon said…

The table reminds me of pictures I've seen of "Old School" games. Are there any elevated spots on the battlefield? It is a lovely board and should bring you lots of fun after paper grading.

7:03 AM

Gallia said…

Best wishes Stokes for an entertaining and satisfying game. Bravo, Bill P.

11:43 AM

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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