What's on your workbench?

[Penda]

Those are more than decent!

[RMD]

I'm constantly amazed by your productivity at such a consistently high standard of quality.

Cheers!

Not as surprised as my boss...

[RMD]

Those are more than decent!

Indecent?

[Spanner]

Very nice, mate.

[RMD]

Very nice, mate.

Cheers! And if you were wondering, the gun-carriage colours are a complete guess. I went with red for Trier, as they apparently drew their guns from the Nuremberg Arsenal, which seemed to deal in red gun-carriages. I went with yellow for Swabia and light blue for Pfalz due to their main heraldic colour and grey for the Upper Rhine for no reason other than it matched their coats.

[Spanner]

Red, grey and yellow used cheap pigment ingredients (usually lead based- eg red lead, aka lead oxide) that provided some protection from both rain and borers/woodworm. It's no coincidence that most artillery equipment was painted in one of those colours. BTW, you've seen the downloadable Deutsch Reichs Armée 15757-1762 book of Reichsarmee plates at Gallica, haven't you? https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b ... ee.langEN#

[RMD]

Red, grey and yellow used cheap pigment ingredients (usually lead based- eg red lead, aka lead oxide) that provided some protection from both rain and borers/woodworm. It's no coincidence that most artillery equipment was painted in one of those colours. BTW, you've seen the downloadable Deutsch Reichs Armée 15757-1762 book of Reichsarmee plates at Gallica, haven't you? https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b ... ee.langEN#

Yeah, you can't go far wrong with those colours and I can always swap them around if new evidence comes to light!

Ah yes, the good old Becher Manuscript! Haven't seen that online gallery before though, so thanks very much for that!

[Spanner]

There's some good books on Gallica, including the trophy collections of Louis XIV and XIV.

[Jeremy]

FDM prints are great, but the striations are terrible. Experimenting with this to get rid of them and give the buildings ‘that Tatooine look’

[DougM]

that should work. I use Chinchilla sand on MDF buildings to get rid of the 'flatness' of the basic material.