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The CZcams channel for the Zen and the Art of Miniature Painting Blog. Anything videoworthy will be post here.
Planning My Crimean Project
In this video I talk through the planning phase of my 28mm Crimean War project. I discuss my initial inspiration, discuss what my initial goals are, and then do a short survey of the options in 28mm.
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Crimea: Foundry Purchase #2 and an Initial British Paint Test
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Crimea: Foundry Purchase #2 and an Initial British Paint Test
Hobby Update - June 2024 "A Spending Spree"
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In which we look at some painting that is almost complete, and yet more purchases!
Hobby Update: May 2024 Some Painting Progress
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Some rebased Parthian horse archers and Early Imperial Roman Legionaries. Also, a (finally) completed unit of Seleucid Cataphracts that I took me 20 years to complete!!! The manufacturer doesn't even exist anymore!
Copplestone Castings "28mm" figure comparison to Perry, Great War, and Woodbine (Gripping Beast WWI)
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@thriftminis a size comparison for you.
May 2024 - Books, figures, and a natter about YouTube
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In this video I show off some new arrivals in paper and metal. I also dicuss my experience making CZcams videos and the community.
Hobby Update - April 2024 (Canadian) Salute and some purchases
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Hobby Update - April 2024 (Canadian) Salute and some purchases
Hobby Update: April 2024 Desk Update
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Just a quick update on some progress and a purchase.
Hobby Update March 2024: "Hardly been home"
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Not much hobby progress to report. So this is more a case of telling you where I have been, and what I have been up to.
Hobby Update December 2023
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A quick run down of what I have finished up in the last while. Merry Christmas 2023 to all, and a Happy New Year. This video was made on Fedora Linux 39 using KDENLive. 00:00 Introduction 01:36 15mm African Spearmen for my Carthaginian Army 03:17 6mm World War II Polish Armour 04:54 10mm Franco-Prussian War French Artillery 07:23 28mm Early Imperial Roman rebasing efforts 13:00 Final wrap up
Ramble - Using Your Library, You Don't Have to Buy Everything
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In this video I talk about how I use my local library system to save me money and space. Video edited using KDENLive on Fedora Linux 39. Sound clean up done with Audacity.
At the foot of Lead Mountain #3 The Mystery Toolbox
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In this video, we take a look at a forgotten mystery toolbox that I haven't opened in years, and see what is inside. This video was made in Kdenlive running on Fedora Linux 39.
Ramble - The "Napoleon" film and historical wargaming scenarios
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Went and saw the new Ridley Scott "Napoleon" film. These are my thoughts.
A Little Memento From Japan - RX-93 Gundam from Bandai Namco
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Just a quick little unboxing of this Gundam kit I picked up on my last visit to Japan.
November 2023 Hobby Update & Some Chat
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November 2023 Hobby Update & Some Chat
Parade Ground 1 - 15mm Pre WWII Miniatures
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Parade Ground 1 - 15mm Pre WWII Miniatures
At the foot of Lead Mountain - My 15mm Pre-World War II mole hill & a ramble
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At the foot of Lead Mountain - My 15mm Pre-World War II mole hill & a ramble
Ramble: Summer Happenings 2023 - 1:1 Scale Projects
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Ramble: Summer Happenings 2023 - 1:1 Scale Projects
Weekend Warrior - Painting 15mm Libyan Skirmishers (Carthaginian Army)
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Weekend Warrior - Painting 15mm Libyan Skirmishers (Carthaginian Army)
Ramble: Your Hobby, your way, but it is not a job - eBegging - 19th Century Utopianism
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Ramble: Your Hobby, your way, but it is not a job - eBegging - 19th Century Utopianism
At the foot of Lead Mountain - My Early Imperial Roman pile of shame
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At the foot of Lead Mountain - My Early Imperial Roman pile of shame
Painting recipes, textures, 6mm War of the Spanish Succession, and a December 2022 Hobby Update
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Painting recipes, textures, 6mm War of the Spanish Succession, and a December 2022 Hobby Update
November 2022 Update - "Where the devil have you been?"
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November 2022 Update - "Where the devil have you been?"
Tabletop Workshop 28mm Stable: Painting Tutorial
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Tabletop Workshop 28mm Stable: Painting Tutorial
Btw hi Ralph. Love your videos as well🤗🤗
We have had a similar journey on our project but chewing the opposite end of the stick. I have been fascinated with the (I’ll call it) wars of political change. Age of Rifles! Changes in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and the UK etc. even the US caught up into the mid century crisis. I have armies of all of the wars starting with 1860s. Austria France conflict, Italian Civil War, Schleswig Holstein conflict, Austria german War, boxer Rebellion, zulu wars, etc….. what was missing was the Crimean War and Russo Turkish Wars. I had lots of Russians from an unwanted project a friend had done. Crimean. He just gave them to me 400…. I had British figures from another friend that looked strange to me. They were he said a late British Napoleonic army 😂 I had 350 Turks and Egyptians from my friend in Chicago with fez. He didn’t want them. Forgotten box in the attic thing. Then a retired police friend from Detroit asked me if I would buy his Crimean war army 400 figures to help him clean things out. .25 cents a piece. I did more out of kindness. All this went into the attic. 😂😂 Until my friend Jeff said. I have a 15mm somewhat finished painted Crimean war army you need. I’m building a pool and need cash 😂😂 I did. Turned out all of theses unwanted discarded figures all came from the same company and were all Crimean. My new project was born. I had French already but could add what I appropriated through arm twisting. I will start cleaning, organizing and buffing all of these into a cohesive army as soon as I return back from Europe. I’ll send an update. Thanks for the video. Loved it and was really fun to watch while having my coffee and a nice treat my lady made. 🤗
That is behaving normally now - did you discover what had happened or just delete and reload it?
I just deleted and reloaded the video. Took several hours on my slow connection. I enjoyed the holiday snaps by the way. Also, have you painted all the Mughal stuff that you have now, or is that still ongoing? And who is the opponent for the Mughals?
Okay, wow. The Midwinter Minis video did not say that or imply anything of the sort. It seems people in the 'historicals community' on CZcams are pretty desperate to play the victim for some stupid reason.
More great purchases, the test figure is excellent. Basing, always has been, and always will be, a conundrum.
A conundrum and source of agony for me. I utterly detest having to rebase figures, so this is one of those "must get it right first time" moments.
@@ZenMiniPainting I do like the asymmetry of four bases, but three does allow for that command in the centre. It really is a nuisance and frustrating, as you know, sometime down the line rebasing will be needed.
Bayonets seem to break off so easily regardless of manufacturer. I'm painting some 18mm Crimean War Russians at the moment and most of them have lost their bayonets, so I've tried to trim them to look as though they were never there in the first place. I think that plate is legitimate but the more I research these things the more I doubt my own decisions. You used a word that is much on my mind at the moment, "aesthetics", and as beauty is in the eye of the beholder the choice of base sizes is very much a matter for the individual. My personal preference for instance is to use 40x40 bases for 28mm figures as this allows greater flexibility when changing unit formations but the downside is that figures get crowded together, especially awkward if they have energetic poses.
Regarding those brass plates: It appears that they only really belong on the Guards. I am struggling to find a picture of the regular line with it present. Nonetheless, it is a minor detail and easily ignored in the larger view of the battalion. On the topic of basing, the agonizing I am currently engaged in (or perhaps self-flagellation is a better word) is informed by that battalion symmetry I described, but also the footprint of the battalion. As an example, I need the footprint to be narrow enough for a Russian "Company" or base to man a redoubt, or the British to occupy the narrow strip of land between the Alma river and the rising embankment (where they were able to take cover from the Russian guns). This creates and issue if the bases are too large of the those features being stretched to fit the figures. I'm perhaps not being very clear. Anyway, I am toying with the idea of doing variable base widths to accommodate. So perhaps Command base = 60/80mm wide, and then remaining troops 40mm wide. The 40mm depth might then work well in the context of the features I described above. Not quite sure what I will do. I do agree that 40x40 makes more sense that 60x60 particularly since it allows the unit to "articulate" better to terrain. Truly first world problems. Since I mentioned redoubts, do you know of a good looking model in 28mm by chance?
@@ZenMiniPainting You might be right about the plates but I have found a single image that might counter - if you google 'Major Thomas Egerton and a sentry 77th (The East Middlesex) Regiment' you will see an example but this is variously described as undated or 1850 and by David Cunliffe or Daniel Cunliffe so not confidence inspiring. In 28mm I can't think of a redoubt but it would be fun to model one from individual gabions. Otherwise I would resort to 3D printing. I have a nice STL for the Grand Redoubt at Borodino for example.
I thought of 3D printing largely because of you adventures in it. I have some friends just across in Canada who might be able to oblige. But I certainly will make some, very iconic for the conflict. Re: the painting you referenced, the National Army Museum has it as painted in 1849. So I suppose it can break either way really. Honestly, I only really noticed it when looking at my Osprey plates, and when I was looking at the figures from Great War and Wargames Foundry. Thanks for the note though, as you have demonstrated many times before, before Osprey!
Some very interesting projects David, I do like the emphasis on command personalities for both the Romans and Crimea.
I don't think anyone can really remove John Gielgud or Trevor Howard from their conception of the Crimean War after seeing "The Charge of the Light Brigade", performances that really underscore my image of both Lord Raglan and the Earl of Cardigan. For good or ill. And of course, in the late Roman Republic, the "Great Man" theory of history is very much writ large. Hope you have been keeping well and that the summer is finally there. Heard it was a tad nippy recently.
@@ZenMiniPainting I totally agree, those actors always will be the faces of Raglan and Cardigan. I am keeping very well David, shooting off to the coast every chance I get. The summer really hasn’t got going this year, hopefully that will change this month.
Hi my friend, was very nice to hear your voice again and see your projects. I am also now starting my 15 mm Crimean War project. I started it several months ago, but it is a special project of whereby I am repurposing very old figures that I acquired at a flea market, from various friends and smaller collections here and there. They are some of the original figures ever made, but I feel bad for them so I thought I would, snap them to attention and make them table worthy again. I already had a very large collection and therefore that is truly done. I had some Turks left over and Egyptians, which surprisingly look very similar from another project. I had mounds and mounds of Russians in field hats. Well, you get the drift. I did watch Ralph’s channel multiple times and always find it wonderful to watch. I’ll share my project with you in August.
Can’t wait to see the fruits of your labours. I am rather taken with the story of the war and enjoying my reading in parallel to my modeling.
Yeah, I’ve read about five books now with a little bit of conflicting information but quite fascinating how the politics of things actually thrust England into the silly war. And the politics behind Russian expansion a lot of things have never changed.
I'm hoping that wargaming interest in the Crimean War will pick up if and when Warlord Games release their proposed supplement for Black Powder. In the meantime I can recommend the Crimean War expansion for Age of Valor which has some useful maps and details although the rules themselves are aimed at 15mm figures and I personally regret that they are no longer available as hard copies but only Kindle compatible. Sorry that my channel continues to disable comments but if you could see how some go to great lengths to seek out my older videos in order to spit vitriol you will appreciate why it is necessary. Be assured I can hear you talking to the screen and do my best to respond telepathically.
Hopefully the Crimean supplement will see some new releases in terms of figures. There really isn't a single range that really covers the Crimean War well. I recent rewatched your Age of Valor video, and I noted the decent maps and OOBs that were included. I have been cobbling together mine for the Alma. And whilst the British OOB is very well fleshed out, the Russian, French, and Turkish leave much to be desired. In any event, it has been great fun diving into a conflict I knew very little about before your video series, and the reading I am currently doing is very enriching. I based up the initial run of Crimean figures and got another order last weekend. I've also put in a modest order with Ebor Miniatures who seem to do good value regimental sized packs, once they turn up, I will see how they look.
I did have a question that you might be able to help with re the Crimea. British Fusilier and Light Infantry regiments seemingly all wore the "wings" or "swallow's nest" on their shoulder. Do you know of a list of Light Infantry/Fusilier regiments? Or are they identified as such in the regimental name? "Durham Light Infantry" "Scots Fusiliers", etc.
@@ZenMiniPainting I confess to being a little rusty on the subject but think you are correct - you can only tell by the full regimental title. I have the same issue with earlier periods, especially during the eighteenth century when regiments often were renamed.
Looking good..
Thank you for watching.
They look superb ranked up, twenty years in the making. Have a good trip to Singapore, I always enjoyed my visits there.
Indeed, nice to finally get them done and dusted. Singapore has been a blast, such a remarkable place, and I'll be sad to leave tomorrow, but also glad to be heading home to cooler climes.
Superb painting and basing as always, I do like your Legionaries...👍👍😍😍
Thanks Phil. Really enjoyed your last videos. Fantastic as always. Hopefully I can showcase my miniatures in action soon.
Good looking minis man! The bases are great too!
Thank you, I look forward to your next video, always a treat.
Excellent update mate, troops look good
Thanks for watching. Hopefully more to come soon.
Wow thanks for the video man! I appreciate it I am sure a number of people are asking the same question.
I have no doubt that others will have the same question, let's hope they find this video in the future.
Nice comparison my friend
Well, this video of yours has certainly confirmed my practice of buying miniatures when they are available and putting them in the lead mountain, possibly to sit there for decades. I recently became enthused about a new era/project and only then discovered Aventine Miniatures; they were completely unknown to me before then. The point was that they were the only company I could find that produced a range of figures suitable for my project. Luckily my lack of restraint in purchasing everything I needed in one go has delivered dividends as I have avoided the panic buying which it seems has swamped Aventine. I'm sort of in shock as in my mind Aventine are a young company just getting going and not a veteran on the cusp of retirement which they turn out to be.
I was shocked myself, they only recently came onto the scene (recently being very elastic here). At any rate, I will be putting in some purchases myself, just need to solidify that shopping list, and scrape the pennies together. I was very pleased to see your last video, the one with the Khazars. I am of the same mind, I don't mind buying stuff in advance, but I don't do so due to marketing compulsion. Back when I played GW games, you sort of had to do that, because stuff would come out in very limited quantities and then be either unavailable forever, or be released later in a less value-for-money deal. So there was this ongoing spend of around 100 quid every month for the latest, just in case I might need it one day. All powered by FOMO, fear-of-missing-out. This is why I avoid Warlord these days, they are very good at drumming up that faddish tide, as you mention, only for it to peter out shortly after. As I have grown older, I couldn't keep pace with GW, and their constant changing of editions, etc. So I have jacked all that in. I am sitting on some rare stuff as a result, which will be going to eBay. I have no use for that anymore, perhaps someone else can benefit from my "foresight".
Hi Ralph and David, I would like to use this opportunity to thank you both for your contributions to the community. Love your videos - they are my favorite thing to listen to while doing hobby, working etc. I really like your calm and measured demeanor and the topics you bring up never fail to be interesting. Best of luck in your future endeavors gentlemen!
Very interesting vid 👍
Thank you VK. I am enjoying your Italian Wars videos very much.
Lovely to hear from you again David, that was an impressive haul for forty bucks. Iberians and North Africans, seems you have a plan😉 the books with their typeface remind me of the newsletter Don Featherstone produced many years ago, it has a charm of its own. I do agree with your opinion of how YT has changed over the past decade, I always did, and still do, make videos as a type of journal/diary, if others enjoy watching, so much the better. I have never monetised my channel, and never will. But YT have taken the liberty of putting commercials on my video anyway. I produce videos about my numerous interests, they are primarily for me, but I am happy to share. I have had a fair few negative comments over the years, but unless it is blatantly abusive, I just let it sit there, it really doesn’t bother me one jot. I have cut down on the number of videos I upload of late, but that is basically due to a lack of interesting content, as I do so many other things now. They will start again when I have something worth sharing or talking about.
I am always pleased to see a video from you Ian. I'm not too precious about comments, but the insulting ones get cut, don't have to tolerate abuse. Club and I have been doing some planning around Marian Romans, hence the interest in North Africa and Spain. I have been thinking a Jugurthine scenario might be interesting, but we shall see.
Do you know if copplestone scales well with Perry miniatures? At some point I want to make a bunch of "A-historicals". I plan to buy an bunch of historical minis from ancient miniatures to medieval and kit-bash a bunch of fantasy miniatures that feel more "realistic". Like a history that could have existed. Great haul.
I can check for you. Standby.
Made a quick and dirty video on my phone and uploaded it for you.
Oh, man! I remember doing similar units decades ago in 1/72nd. Yours are looking good! I hope your rebasing goes well. Cheers!
Thank you for the wishes. I abhor rebasing, so I think I will just settle with these 60x60mm bases and leave it at that. "Never again!" Hope life on the farm is grand, and you are keeping well.
i've been wargaming the awi for 40+ years, so for what it's worth..the only off the shelf set that has genuine flavour is andy callan's "loose files and american scramble". i definitely advise avoiding generic horse and musket sets or napoleonics... if you have a favourite acw tactical set then that might be a good starting point.
Thank you for this comment. I really appreciate the rules recommendation.
A good book - I bought it in hard back from a second hand book shop about two months ago for a £5. In fact I got so many mint books for less than a hundred over a couple of months from that shop. Absolute steal and an interesting read.
Some very good purchases, the books look very interesting. The pose with the handle of his pack around his head does seem odd, but as he is a Ranger, possibly fording a river and keeping it dry?
That might be it! Thank you Ian, still a very odd looking pose.
I enjoyed your video very much and your words one thing you look at is little wars TV revolutionary war live free or die actually is a very enjoyable set of revolutionary war. They did a couple of videos I’ve played them. I was extremely surprised at how nicely. They played they were not expensive and it was Zf. It’s just a suggestion for you, but I was quite pleasantly surprised.
Thanks Kevin, I'll take a look at the Little Wars TV rules for AWI.
I liked them. I also enjoy black powder. The two rules are two different perspectives. Both enjoyable.
By the way, the book of wargaming that you started your video off with from Neal is a very good book. I have it in my virtual library. I just reread it again this morning with my cup of coffee. Yes, I read quickly if you study his rules, it is if black powder was written with his rules in mind with a few minor adjustments. Black powder being more tool kit for Wargamer is uniquely positioned to accept his suggestions for 19 century warfare. I could see making a few minor tweaks to black powder for my Franco Prussian or American Civil War games even the Crimean. Using black powder with a few of his suggestions, which makes sense. By the way, a good author with a level head.
Well, I actually went back and looked through my old Black Powder rule book, and found that there are rules for mixed formation units (formed with skirmisher screen), which I had totally missed in the past. I think Thomas's ideas dovetail neatly with the Black Powder idea. So I can see myself getting some decent mileage out of both books in the end.
Remember, black powder rules to me just gives me a toolbox. I am going to be currently running a war of the Spanish succession campaign with my mates with a hopefully a large battle at the end I have adapted the black powder rules to emulate and reflect warfare during the Marlburian period. I have modified the rules using another person‘s ideas with a supplement called Blenheim. And tweaking different units and attributes and how they fought. I’m actually able to re-create with this beautiful toolbox a little bit of what I think the period flavor could be. Because it certainly wasn’t Napoleonic warfare and it certainly isn’t Franco Prussian wars either. I like the flexibility of these rules and I’m able to adapt them freely. I even have taken from live free or die and implemented some of those ideas into my black powder game.
Thanks for coming!
I didn't attend Salute once again this year. Whereas you travelled to another country, there and back in a day, the practicalities of travelling up to the East End of London from the West Country in a day in the UK are arduous and involve nine hours on public transport if all goes well and according to plan, which it rarely does. The alternative is to stay in a hotel and the cost then becomes prohibitive. Just as well I decided not to do so as I have ended up spending over £1,000 on trying to alleviate foot pain (unsuccessfully so far) and the hard floor surface at the Excel centre would certainly have exacerbated the problem as well. With the proviso that I distrust the accuracy of Warlord figures I think the shoulder straps are OK - one book I have describes the battalion companies shoulders as "ornamented with a cloth strap in the facing colour edged with white tape terminating in a white worsted crescent" whereas the flank companies straps "terminated in a wing, barred with white tape and edged with white worsted tufting". Always room for doubt as I have found errors in this particular source before, but as that is how the figures are portrayed you are really obliged to conform.
Indeed, travelling into London is such a hassle, and just the cost of the train is prohibitive, never mind the cost of accommodation, vittles, entrance fee, and of course toys. Must be especially hard on those on a fixed income. And coupled with foot pain, one must ask if the juice is truly worth the squeeze. I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed the show in Canada, the emphasis is heavily on participation, which I wasn't quite prepared for, so I think next show here in North America, I shall make sure I get stuck in. That said, this time around, I had so much graft waiting for me back at home, I couldn't really just enjoy myself. Regarding those Warlord figures, I actually took another look this morning, and of the 24 figures, 4 do have the swallows' nests, so I suppose those are meant to represent the flank companies. The rest have the worsted crescent. So I shall have to clarify that in a later video. N.B. Enjoyed your last two videos. I don't know if I missed you talking about it, but have you tried "Cold Waters" it is a nuclear submarine simulator, set in a "Cold War gone hot" scenario. The game is made by Killerfish Games, who also made "Atlantic Fleet" which you have featured previously. I sunk several hours into that, along with the Silent Hunter series, which is a diesel submarine simulator game. P.S. My wife is mega impressed by your Jacobites. She asked me why I am not painting tartan, and I replied that I am not a mad man like you! Hope the foot pain buggers off so you can get up and about again. Best wishes from Point Roberts, Washington.
Superb cavalry units, well done!
Thank you for watching. I enjoy your cinematic videos immensely.
Nice inspirational update, David. Just put my wife on the plane to Athens, so have a week to myself to follow your example and try to get some quick wins on stalled projects. Byzantine army to be based and some infantry painted too, I fear, and a load of late WW2 Volkssturm to base. Painted them all last year,went off on holiday and of course they’ve been languishing in their box ever since. Then to launch a 10mm MonmouthRebellion project. Figs all there in bags ready to go. Never a dull moment. Best, Howard
Hi Howard, Yes! Take those gaps wherever you can. Katherine has had me occupied in the garden, so that has limited my hobby time, but I think, when the chores are all done, I might find a moment extra here and there. Would love to see your work. What scale is that Byzantine army in? Been toying with getting a smallish force myself.
The Byzantines are 15mm from Museum Miniatures. Horse are pretty good but some of the foot sculpts are a little lacking in animation. They are Nikephorian I think. Can’t t remember what rule set I bought them for but they are being based for Impetus/Milites Muncie from Gripping Beast. Both use 80mm frontage and I don’t think it’s that important if the depths vary by 5 or 10 mm.
Good to see you finding some time on the painting desk, the figures look great. Just keep ticking those boxes as you progress.
Thanks Ian. Tough when there is so much work to be done for the Memsahib. But we find our gaps where we may.
Nice update keep going
Thank you. Just wanted to say, I came across your painting guide for Russian Crimean infantry, excellent video.
@@ZenMiniPainting Many thanks
Keep chipping away!
Thank you for the encouragement!
Damn I live in Sydney, hoped you liked it here!
Oh yes, Sydney is great. Just ultra expensive. I was there last in late 2014, and the city seems to be throwing up new buildings all the time.
Good to hear you again. That’s quite a schedule and I thought I did a fair amount of travelling! Agree with you about Ralph’s MWWBK video. Looking forward to the next one. Take care, Howard
Thanks for watching Howard. Hoping to find more opportunities to create videos soon.
Nicely done. Enjoyed the update! You travel about as much as I do. Delta loves me 😂😂 also have a travel box. To funny. Off to watch Ralph 🤗
I'm an Alaska Airlines man myself :)
You do know that anytime you would ever get over to Atlanta. You just possibly have to look me up. I think we would have a great time together and you would certainly make a lifetime friend. It might take you a while to get through looking at all the 300,000 figures but I do have really good tea and cookies here.😂😂
@@thekrausecollection15mmmin53 Kevin, I would love to pop down to Atlanta some time. I go to Nashville quite often, and might see if I can make that drive down through Chattanooga some time.
I would be tickled immensely. We would love to host you. I have brilliant tea and coffee, good food and lots of toys 😂😂
Lovely to hear your voice again David, you certainly clock up the miles with all of your globe trotting. I too am fed up with all the ads on YT, so I shall look into Premium. I have been spending the vast majority of my time at the coast, so hobby output and videos have taken a back seat recently.
Great to hear from you Ian. I walked the peninsular in Point Roberts the other day, specifically to inspect some of the erosion patterns, and I thought of you and your fantastic videos. With the weather getting finer, I am hoping to make a video about the erosion here, it is remarkable to see boulder clay stripped away by the waves, but also general rainfall causing collapses.
@@ZenMiniPainting I intend to do some more on the erosion this year, to see what the winter has done, the usual places for comparison. Mappleton and Skipsea, I am sure a lot more land will have been lost, the clay of the East Yorkshire Coast is no match for the North Sea.
Thanks for the mention. I hadn't realised Premium gave access to films and must check it out. I'm still stuck in the past and have a huge DVD library. I'm worried about what will happen when I have to replace my failing TV as modern devices don't seem to have compatible sockets for DVD players. It is a relief not to watch adverts on CZcams but I still have a problem with the commercialisation of the platform as there is a noticeable tendency to chase views and subscribers through the uploading of videos on subjects that act as click bait rather than subjects that the channel owner has a genuine interest in and knowledge of. In other words quality tends to suffer in the race to the bottom. Warlord will be bringing out a Crimean War supplement eventually so I am sure they will have future expansions to their 28mm range.
Funny you say that, I cut a 10 minute rant from that last video that ended up being largely incoherent. But totally agree, I see certain channels chasing the "algorithm", and one of the telltale signs is thumbnail art. The inane "surprised" face, with a finger pointing at something. I'll be honest, if I see that, I do not watch.
are you by any chance South African ? :)
Yes, I am.
@@ZenMiniPainting aah cool , where abouts ? Im originally from Cape Town, but now call England my home !
@@battleknights9636 I was born in the Cape but grew up mostly in the Free State and Natal. Most of my family have left SA, scattered to the four winds. Which part of the UK did you end up in?
@@ZenMiniPainting Bedfordshire, a little county just north/ west of London!
@@battleknights9636 that's cool, I used to live in Oxfodshire, used to travel through Befordshire on my way to Cambridge, unless my memory fails me.
Wow this is very impressive. Looking brilliant mate. Hope you enjoy your trip
Thank you for the kind words. Trip has been great, but glad to be on the way home now.
I am sure we all have a box like that hahaha. Thanks for sharing
I am always astonished by my ability to stash things away and forget about them. It borders on the supernatural.
Impressive work all round my friend have a great Christmas
Just catching up on comments now, Happy New Year!
Impressive work on the shields, cracking job!
Thank you. I think with practice I should improve.
Very nice to hear your voice and see such a lovely production. I watch it with joy.
Thank you, Kevin, Merry Christmas to you.
And a very merry Christmas to you as well my new friend
I used to buy a huge number of physical books, at least a hundred a year, but have managed to tame my habit, to about 30. I don’t as a rule buy eBooks, the exception being rules pdfs from the Lardies and the like. Oddly enough, I find eBooks clutter my mental space too much, if that makes any sense, even more so than physical books. I certainly wouldn’t read a novel in the form of an eBook, though they are obviously far better than physical books in terms of searchability, which is crucial when doing research. Used to use my local library a great deal in the UK, and it’s sad to see the services being cut back each year, with ever more space given over to computer terminals and bouncy castles for toddlers. Was amused to discover that each ordinary loan from a UK library costs the local council about £5 on average. Would be cheaper in many cases to buy the physical book!
Thanks for the tip about Project Gutenberg! I’ve noticed that the main search engines are not as good for finding out-of-print books as they once were. 😕
You are welcome. I noticed the same thing re: search engines. Gutenberg isn't perfect, but if you know what you are looking for it can be rather helpful.
The figures look great, it should be a tad warmer in Texas. A very Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year to you and your wife. I head out to the coast on Wednesday, it will be a bit colder here 🥶
Merry Christmas to you too Ian. Would much rather be home by the sea than away, but needs must. I hope you have a lovely time at the coast.
Some interesting points there. I'm also trying to stop buying so many books with mixed success; Agree that you need rule books. I've bought several as pdfs and then ended up buying the hard copy. As for Osprey, in the past I've joined their website for a month or so and simply downloaded the plates and info that I needed. Once or twice this has also resulted in a physical purchase for subjects that I'm really interested in. The library option doesn't work well for me because I live in a non-English-speaking country and getting English books is a somewhat laborious process. The result is a library room with double-stacked shelves, some of which are beginning to bend under the weight on them!
Double-stacked shelves, Lol. 😏 Was warned about this by a friend who has that problem. He can never find anything. When installing my own bookshelves some years back I made sure they were so narrow that it’s hard to stack anything but the smallest paperbacks more than two deep. :-)
I had forgotten about the Osprey subscription thing. I signed up for that many, many years ago, but didn't really use it enough to justify the cost. And I totally get that the library option isn't for everyone. I think my major issue is that I feel that there isn't much value in me buying a book for a photograph or plate, and honestly, some Osprey books feel like that. I think in a world where both space and money are becoming more scarce, for some, we have to make tougher choices. I think, though, that as wargamers we have this tendency to accumulate stuff. I suppose I choose to accumulate toy soldiers rather than wargaming books where possible. In a rather reductive sense, a battalion of troops represents a better purchase investment that a book that I only need for a bit of research and then never revisit again.
@@ZenMiniPainting - I’m more worried about my miniature purchases getting out of hand than my book-buying. Books you can put away on the shelf and come back to a decade or more later and still get full value from. I was a Napoleonics fiend in my teens and perhaps half my book collection was Waterloo-related. Then my interests switched and the books sat unread in a closed cupboard for three decades: I nearly sold them. Currently it’s my number one interest again and those books are getting a lot of use. As for minis, I bought a huge amount of them online during the pandemic, mainly obsolete stuff that’s normally hard to find. To be honest I got into a bit of funk when I realised how big my pile of shame had grown. I’ve now put a blanket ban on any new projects and that seems to have helped save my sanity. As it is, I have only two active periods of interest (Napoleonic and early WW2/Spanish Civil War) and all in one scale 20mm/25mm. The single scale is key as I can use the same terrain, and also play both massed battles and skirmishes.
I use a web app called Everand. It has most books in it. I can save books read them to just about everything that I want with them except printing. But it gives me a chance to see just about every Osprey book or anything else for that matter I think I have close to 2000 books saved. I really enjoy this because it gives me a chance when I travel to not carry books with me. For plates and color plates for painting I find that Pinterest is a phenomenal resource. I think my physical library has at this point close to 18,000 titles. Comes with a ladder and books in beautiful shelves stacked almost 11 feet high. So I read a lot almost one to two books a week. This was a great video enjoyed it.
I'll do a video response to this at some stage as I have different views that stem from my past experiences and my age.
I look forward to it. As I said, I don't think the library method is for everyone, but it is a resource that is oft neglected.
I was rooting around trying to find a specific item the other day and came across a lot of things that I had stored away and forgotten about. I said to myself exactly the same words that you used at the end of the video, "I know where it is now", but the truth is by the time I need to locate them another five years might have gone by and not only will I have forgotten about them again but the boxes they are in will have been relocated during my sporadic attempts to tidy up. All wargamers are the same. It is great fun rediscovering the past though.
This is truly the hoarders dilemma. I think I am going to get some plastic tote boxes with lids, and put things in those with labels. My current system of boxes on shelves allows for the old, "I'll just put this here for a moment, and forget about it" far too much.