Happy New Year (properly)! It's actually already January 3rd, but I've taken a few days away from the hobby as we have de-decorated and put the house back in order. The Young Master has been occupied with other things too, so we have not yet had our planned New Year's Day raid-rescue game, but we'll do so later this afternoon in a few hours.
The two of us have also discussed what to do with his Minden Prussian musketeers that he received for Christmas, and have figured that either Frederick's 1st Garrison Regiment, or 3rd Garrison Regiment will fit the bill for relatively simple uniforms that don't require too much facing color. Just red coat tail turnbacks and colored hot pompoms. Otherwise dark blue, black hats and gaiters, fleshtone, brown musket stocks, white shoulder belts, metallics, and green bases.
Between the two of us, we should (should. . . As in might be able to) manage the 40 or so figures and get them painted in a somewhat shorter length of time than is the usual state of affairs here in the Grand Duchy. My late maternal grandfather once remarked to the teenaged me in the midst of an interior repainting project I undertook in the upstairs hallway of my grandparents' house outside of Philadelphia. "You paint well, but you're slower than hell." I digress however.
Returning to the point at hand, the flags for either regiment are similar, yet different in interesting ways. Interested parties can refer to the Project Seven Years War website to peruse the details. I have advised Young Paul yesterday, given the similarity of the uniforms worn and flags carried by these two units, that he needn't decide quite yet which one of the two his figures might become. At least not until the hat pompoms and flag over-painting stages.
And, of course, if he prefers to take a more imaginary approach, that is certainly also viable. We are operating within The Grand Duchy of Stollen after all, and they are his toys! I am taking care to provide advice and inspiration, but also to follow his lead here. Paul already refers to me humorously as "Bad Dad" and sometimes "The Evil Dadbot," but I don't want to annoy him by taking over his inaugural soldier-painting project.
At any rate, we plan to begin the base-coating process this week in the afternoons following conclusion of school via Zoom. The Young Master is back in the thick of it starting at 8:30 Monday (tomorrow) morning. Yours truly, by comparison, does not begin classes until Monday, January 17th this year although there is plenty to keep me busy until then, starting tomorrow morning when I check work-related email for the first time in two weeks. Sigh.
In the meantime, I plan to work a bit here and there today and this evening on those nine Austrian horse grenadiers that I've been nattering on about for some time. We're not yet to the super-detailing stage, but they are coming along pretty well.
-- Stokes
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Cheers,
Bill P.