We're Almost There with the Jaegers. . .

 A few incorrect details (Grrrr. . .), but my generic jaeger company --  based loosely on the Anspach-Beyreuth Jaegers, who fought in the AWI -- is almost ready for glossing.  Just the brass details along with a few of the usual touch-ups here and there, and Bob's your mother's brother.  

I hope to have these all finished for our planned Battle of Spargelzeit in about two weeks.  The Young Master, in his guise of the tactically astute General Paul von Stollen, will have the honor of commanding them in their inaugural action.  

In the meantime, it's onto the so called 'double blues,' a generic company of frei-corps infantry, which you'll observe waiting in the background.  These have already had the basic Winsor & Newton Griffin alkyd oil fleshtone applied followed by Army Painter flesh wash to provide some definition and tone down the bright flesh just a bit.  

Very eager to begin in earnest with these since I have wanted to add some to the Grand Duchy of Stollen for some little while. The project has been ongoing for 17 years now if you can believe it!  Summer 2006.  

The Grand Duchess still teases me about bringing along that first unit of plastic Revell SYW Prussian line infantry and a hobby knife on our honeymoon to the Black Hills in South Dakota.  I will never, repeat never, live down that particular lapse in judgement.

In any case, different eventual uniform colors for the 15 frei-corps figures, of course, but equally striking. 

-- Stokes