Birthday Post

Well, I've got just enough time left in today before Lights Out to mention what has or has not been going on here in the Duchy. 

Most important, to me anyway, is my completion of my 56th trip around Sol Prime. This was achieved by doing what a Service friend suggested to me many moons ago as a young Soldier...."don't die...". 

Right. Sage advice. 

On other fronts, work has been busy, graduate school has been just a little bonkers, and yet one more weekend in uniform looms.... I jokingly refer to this as "playing 1800mm Moderns".

What else? 

Bought from TMP

I have a completely irrational interest in the Franco-Prussian War, as it was a game in this period that brought me back into the hobby. I was in college and a friend and I went to a local wargame show, HAVOC, on a whim. A gentleman, the late Jim Parcella, was running a FPW game with his Falcon Miniatures and a set of rules called "They Died For Glory". 

Fast forward some decades and a fella had a job lot he was selling for a friend. Painted French! I now have all the French artillery I need, plus a good chunk of (somewhat badly) painted infantry and sufficient mounted officers that I am in the process of rebasing them. And I have plenty of unpainted figures to go with them. 

White Army troops from the Russian Civil War

Another knock on the head from The Good Idea Fairy a year ago was the RCW in 1/72nd scale plastics. I figured I use The Portable Wargame or something like that. One batch of 24 figures is based and this lot will get based in the next week or so. I've another four to six similar groups in the process of being cleaned, glues, primed, etc. 

And finally, my new bestest friend, an Art de la Guerre army starting to form. In this case, Italian Condotta. Why? Because they are rubbish. And I do loves me some rubbish armies. 

With my purchase of the ADLG rules, I dragged out of...somewhere...an old DBA Italian Condotta army and now I have a nice start. If I can find another DBA pack to match it, I'll be able to field the requisite 200pts of vanilla flavoured wandering mercenaries for hire on the Italian peninsula. Perhaps and early version of my Duchy of Arancia project for the Napoleonic Wars. 

Well, that's it then. Too many projects. Too little time. 

More anon.