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A Quick Friday Evening Session. . .

 

Before heading upstairs to open and enjoy our usual Friday evening glass of wine with the Grand Duchess, I managed to sit down in the painting chair for 45 minutes or so to finish undercoating the musket straps in gray and next apply gun metal to the bayonets.  Saturday, I plan to begin and hopefully complete the various tiny brass details on those same muskets, gunmetal to any visibly firelocks, and small white highlights to the musket straps.  

Depending on how that goes, it will probably be time to clean up various edges on the figures and apply a drop of Army Painted wash to shako plates to tone 'em down a bit and help pick out the incredible detailing by the late Richard Ansell, whose work is something to behold.

Ok, I've got a cork to pop and glasses to pour.  Goodness knows those of us in the US have a valid reason to drink ourselves into a stupor.

-- Stokes

Comments

Anonymous said…
I heard Trump wants to become an associate member of our Commonwealth. You gave that up in 1776. No one wants America or Americans anymore, you are not reliable allies and are just plain embarrassing generally.
3:37 AM
Anonymous said…
That’s what you get for having Russian agent/stooge Krasnov in charge. A criminal just like his Nazi friends, like the one who makes Swastikars. You reap what you sow. We try not to buy anything American now, we do not support traitors to democracy. You can remove your bases from the UK as well. We consider them enemy forces on our soil now. You should all be ashamed.
6:14 AM
caveadsum1471 said…
Lovely looking Croats and all progress is good progress, I was taken by the two positions of do the collars/ don't do the collars it's a tricky business of how much detailing we do and what we leave out, I think, like you, painting figures is for me almost primarily therapeutic that gives me an end product that I can use in ( at the moment occasional! ) games but there needs to be a balance between the painting and unit production?
Best Iain
9:42 AM
Simon said…
You hear the moronic shouts in Congress of USA, USA. All we hear now instead is Warsaw Pact, Warsaw Pact. America is now part of the modern axis of evil.
10:12 AM
WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…
Thank you for the kind, and not so kind comments everyone. I too am distressed by the fact that the U.S. and the rest of the world find ourselves here again (and even worse) than the first go-around with the orange menace and his flying monkeys ready to march in lockstep with whatever pops into his head, or is whispered in his ear. Reptilian "intelligence" at its worst. The situation defies words. A bad dream that seems to get worse with each passing day and from which it is impossible to wake up. Frankly, I don't blame you.

Kind Regards,

Stokes
1:08 PM
Anonymous said…
You know what the treacherous orange man baby agent of Putin can do, don’t you? The same as his moronic egocentric cohorts. The USA is even more diminished to the rest of the world. The poodle of Poo Tin does not comprehend what a tariff on imports actually is. The maniac just makes things up to suit whatever today’s throw your toys out of the pram five minutes of hate is. The average intelligence of an American is lower than everyone thought, just above that of a building brick. Apologies to bricks and other dense objects, you maybe actually more intelligent than a citizen of the USA in most cases.

3:47 PM
Bluewillow said…
Good progress on the Croats
5:43 AM
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