Gaming on Vancouver Island
This week a new unit was mustered into my 18th Century Russian army, and a suitable parade was organized. The First Grenadier Regiment’s new banners (flags by Adolfo Ramos) were blessed by the Czar’s preeminent mad padre, Father Mikhail Petrovich.
Then, the Grenadiers passed in review before the commanding officer. So why is this the First Grenadier Regiment? Because it is the first such regiment that I ever painted, some thirty years ago, sometime around 1990 as I recall.
Here below on the front of the right-hand base you can see three of the original figures, Front Rank Russian SYW grenadiers advancing which I purchased from the long defunct and legendary Emperor’s Headquarters, which I once visited on the south side of Chicago (I think it was the south side, it was a long drive). I was a starving graduate student at the time, on a tight budget, so I think I purchased sixteen figures. I was working from black and white drawings in a book on SYW Russian uniforms that I wa
Gaming on Vancouver Island