A dreich Friday in the Duchy saw me getting Napoleonic figures ready for rebasing and gloss varnishing. Final touches were done to my VBCW Von Rosen Platoon of Swedish Volunteers prior to sending to my regular opponent’s house for our weekly games. The Platoon has an anti tank rifle as a support weapon and a mortar team has been ordered.
You make good progress on your projects but I had to look up the word, "dreich."
ReplyDeleteIt’s a great word and sums up the weather so well.,some of my projects fare less well.
DeleteThe great thing about the word ‘dreich’ is that it can be imbued with feeling that sums up the effect the weather can have on your mood.
ReplyDeleteI thought the name von Rosen seemed familiar. Then I was reminded why when I was looking up Finnish tank paint colours. The article had a side-bar that talked about the Finnish swastika. Von Rosen was the Swedish aristocrat who gave the fledgling Finnish armed forces their first aircraft in 1918. I.e. pre-Nazis. The swastika was his personal emblem and the Finns decided to keep it and it grew from there. I’m sure I read somewhere else that it as his wife who gave them the plane.
Interesting lot the Von Rosens. Glad you had a research about it, I recall ( probably through you) that the Finnish Airforce have stopped using the symbol.
DeleteIt was an ancient one with a long pedigree long before it was hijacked.
That's a proper work bench!
ReplyDeleteI take it Von Rosen's Swedes will fight the the Crown?
My regular opponent has Liverpool Free State Russian supplied troops so they will be off to battle with them. I have another force of pro Crown militia I might paint up later...
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