A new force is now in place to confront the forces of Todos Santos. I finished up the grenadier company of my Spencer Smith regiment. We had a weather front move through here that dropped the temperatures down into the 20s and brought snow to the city. That would not be bad except for the fact that the city gets snow so infrequently that we have no snow removal equipment. There was no going out, therefore. Since it was cold and my heater in the workshed doesn't handle temps well below 30 deg Fahrenheit, instead of going out to the shed and working on terrain, I opted to stay indoors and paint.

The company consists of 16 rank and file, an officer (not present), a drummer (not present), and a senior NCO (the figure on the front right of the company) denoted by stripes on the right sleeve.

I'm working on a name and history for the regiment. My initial impulse was to establish this regiment as being drawn from the ranks of the Académie Gastronomique of Freedonia. Known as the Regiment de l'Académie Gastronomique the rank and file consists of dropouts from the ranks of Freedonia's finest chefs. During the siege of Mayonne, the Regiment distinguished itself by pouring vats of boiling chocolate on attacking forces, a maneuver known in books on tactics as "The Fondue." This part of the siege has become known as the Mayonnaise Miracle.

The other option was to refer to them as the Regiment der Kriegakademieköche. Roughly translated from German this means the regiment of war academy cooks. Somehow it doesn't have the same ring in German as it does in French. Later this week, I'll get the entire regiment out for a parade and photo before starting on my RSM regiment. But for now, you can take a peek at my version of a page from Funcken's works! (Thanks again to David from Not By Appointment for the template and Steve Mirvin at the Bishopric of Uber Gruntshuffen for the tecnique of painting the template!)

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Great to see them again! Jean-Louis (86.200.65.251) 2007-10-19 15:37:08 Mike, your set of Imagi-Nations is taking a very pleasant, structured shape. Perhaps as an irregular in Freedonian service, I hope we'll see again your very colorful unit Janissaries + Bosnians /Albanians. Your artillery in purple also deserves to be on display! Compliments, Jean-Louis PS I confess I have difficulties to navigate your new site: I did not find Regiment Gastronomique under Freedonia, nor El Soldado Juguete under Todos Santos? (good name, BTW) Reply | Quote 0   0

Artillery Mike Cannon (75.110.214.143) 2007-10-21 17:42:34 Jean-Louis, Thanks again for the comments. I am working on the page for the artillery battery and hope to have it up tomorrow or the next day. I'd like to have some background for it when it goes up. My apologies about the navigation. I am still new to how Joomla handles things but now have figured out that I can put something under a category *and* have it show on the front page. Reply | Quote 0   0

Chancellor von Hesse-Fedora Ed Youngstrom (75.110.201.54) 2007-11-12 09:49:47 Mike, I had no idea so much has happened on your site. I use an RSS-driven page at Google to watch sites such as yours, and it has not shown any changes. Now visiting it I see I have a lot of catching up to do on my reading. The uniform plate is wonderful. How much of that is your technique, and how much borrowed? In fact, how about a tutorial somewhere? Ed Reply | Quote 0   0

Template Mike Cannon (75.110.214.143) 2007-10-21 17:46:50 Herr Chancellor, I have picked up the technique of the watercolor like style from Steve at Uber Gruntshuffen. I cut and pasted pictures from Not By Appointment until I got a good template for a standard regiment and then printed it off. The parchment idea is mine and I was able to do that part in Macromedia Fireworks. I looked at how difficult it would be to do a tutorial earlier today and will try to get to it this week. Fortunately, GIMP, a freeware image processor, can do what needs to be done with the images. Reply | Quote 0   0

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