Happy birthday old chap....

Ginger

Brass or bronze barrels where usually polished & iron ones painted black to prevent rust - not sure what colour the for the carriages limbers etc, but generally brass bronze fittings would be polished and iron ones painted or even if it was fixed at this time.

Ginger

very nice but if its a metal model then I understand what you mean by fiddly

Ginger

I wash all my figures after block painting with either Peat Brown ink in gloss varnish or as peat brown ink is not available form Spirit Games & Army Painter Strong Tone is with that instead. I also lightly dry brush every thing with Miniature paints Pale flesh or Coffee this I find gives me the req...

Natural wool, as the coats were mostly wool like most other outer clothing. Natural wool is a very varied colour, but the stuff that got dyed started off some sort of pale cream and was bleached before it was dyed and it was usually dyed as yarn rather than cloth. Uniforms could also go whiter becau...

very nicely done as ever. As for the question I would personally do French a silver (bluish) grey for any period up to the end of the succession of the lower American colonies. For this I would tend to use something like the old GW Space wolves grey mixed 50/50 with white for the shadow 25/75 for th...

It is & Google Translate seems to work for Polish as its a language I can't quite get by in

Ginger

Thanks Clarence I have been bloging and following Blogs quite a bit but that limitations on comments stops me doing so most of the time which is why I tend to repost teasers to blogs I find interesting on my friends general gaming forum The Big Bang Burger Bar.... http://www.bigbangburgerbar.co.uk/F...

I know not having the time to spend it all is a real drag

Ginger

sounds like a very good one as well

Ginger

not forgetting 10mm & 6mm of course on 15mm basing

good stuff & rather inspirational as ever.

Ginger

1:200th buildings work with 15mm figures in much the same way though I would be reluctant to mix scales if I was not using a rues set with a figure representing multiple men. Differing scaled buildings in a skirmish game look odd IMO. It does however work the other way round with 20mm buildings bein...

Reposted for a friend who is recruiting for a number of huge games the first of which is Leipzig.

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Good luck with the job hunting old chap.

Ginger

They might but none to fond of head swaps as I have often found them a bloody business literally.

Ginger