With apologies to Sir Paul and Wings, ca. late summer 1979. We're getting there. A fter two weeks largely away from the painting table due to an overabundance of work and family-related things, I managed to get myself back to the 15 Minden Croats this weekend to work on applying paint to buttons, braid, and piping. Tedious work with a lot of breathe-holding, holding the figures almost up to my nose under the brightest light, and a few minute mistakes with the brush, but all in all fairly decent results I think. In keeping with the muted appearance of this uniform -- based on that more or less worn by the Slavonische-Brooder Grenzer -- I have again used Army Painter 'Basilisk Brown' for this step. To my mind, a brighter yellow would seem at odds with the rest of the painting scheme. You be the judge. So, we're almost there now. Just the brass (I use gold) bits along the sword hilts and scabbards, a few visible Fred Buckles (p...