The Bosniaks: Whites & Some Reds. . .

Starting to look a bit more like something you might want on your tabletop.

Today's title sounds almost like an 60-minute television, Amazon, Hulu, or Netflix dramedy. An Eastern European family of limited means makes good and moves to the upscale suburbs outside your city of choice where problem assimilating ensue as cultural, political, and social differences clash. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll identify with the easily relatable characters. You'll marvel at the cleverly penetrating and ironic commentary. Sales of track suits and shoes with five-inch heels will surge as will ratings. And a second season will follow in short order. Right.

My television treatment aspirations aside, brushwork continues apiece on the squadron of Minden Bosniaks as and when time has allowed this weekend. I went ahead with applying a sparing coat of white atop the tan undercoat for the turbans and plumes, taking care to allow the tan to show through in places. Finished that up yesterday evening following The Young Master's bedtime as The Grand Duchess engaged in an orgy of Christmas wrapping and packaging for parents, sibling, nephew, and partner on the west coast.

Meanwhile, I started adding some scarlet highlights once the turbans and plumes were done. I'll continue with the reds today (Monday) after entering final grades for my students this term into the requisite online database and possibly add the mustaches and hair in dark brown just to make the riders look more, um, human. A nice, easy way to wrap up painting up for the evening might include a few horse manes and perhaps white markings on their muzzles for good measure. Anything to move the process forward. Stay tuned!

-- Stokes

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tradgardmastare said…

Sounds like they are coming along very nicely.

2:05 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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