Another birthday has come and gone. Another year of deteriorating eyesight has come and gone. 💡 Perhaps one could assist the other⁉️
And so it came to pass that a magnifying light – or as it says on the box a “LED Desktop Magnifier” – was procured. It comes with multiple light colour modes and power settings which seems a shame as it is anticipated that only one of each will be used – a white light on a high power setting – apart from playing with the options. A quick trial with the contraption has returned promising results.
Also procured was a motorised turntable. The thinking is that it will aid by replacing multiple photos of figure(s) with a single video. We shall see.
The Eighteenth Century comes to the 21st century
When von Peter himself reinserted himself into miniature wargaming after his young man years at university – plus a few more! – it was the Seven Years War in Central Europe that claimed his attention. Much reading – a big thank you to the sadly departed Christopher Duffy – painting and gaming ensued. That Front Rank Figurines cast locally under licence were obtainable in New Zealand didn’t hurt either. Prussians and Austrians – later joined by a few Hanoverian and French – were recruited and gamed with.
So it was with great pleasure that the blog Kabinettskriege: An Eighteenth-Century Digital Humanities Project was stumbled upon.
And consequential to that find was the discovery of the related Eighteenth Century podcast Prime and Load.
Similar sources of media consumption for the Napoleonic period are plentiful but these are the first that von Peter himself can recall finding for the Eighteenth Century. Especially pleasing as it covers off the Seven Years War. The anticipation for the podcast episode “The Battle of Hohenfriedberg” is being savoured.
Model this
Of course von Peter himself should have been being productive rather than cruising the ‘net. But sometimes there is a payoff for such idleness. In this case it was stumbling upon the German(?) model maker’s Samy’s YouTube site. Amazing to watch the builds unfold. And it all looks so easy. Which is of course a big fat juicy lie. It aint easy! 🤬
By way of an example von Peter himself offers up a Medieval Rural House. The house itself and then the interior. I’m sure that the are some learnings for all contained within.
vvv Samy – Model Maker vvvv
Enough.
Until we meet again …
Salute
von Peter himself
von Peter himself 