Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Armies on Parade

Well, my editor has come back with some final changes, and the artist assigned finished the color illustrations. I've been working on armies based on parts of the book.  The first unit is the Crown Guard infantry circa 1770.  The figures are Eureka figures based on the Saxon 1763 range.  The grenadiers are from Triangle miniatures and the flags are based on drawings in the upcoming book.    Next up is a unit of Bar Confederation and Russian Infantry.

I've started working on a book covering the Polish Legions 1795 - 1807.  This will cover the the Legions in Italy, the Demi-brigades sent to Santo Domingo, The Northern Legion, Vistula Legion and some odd bits and pieces.  More on that as it develops.

Monday, June 4, 2012

I can adapt to change.  I think I do pretty well with it, but I'm not a fan of sudden change.  The log-in for Blogspot seems to have changed so that it took me a few minutes to get back to familiar ground.  It happens, I swear in one of the several languages I know how to swear in and move on.  Not everything is that easy.  I also know that the next time I log-in I will also forget what I did to get back here and so I will repeat the above.  I guess I need to log-in more often.

So, that brings me to the next topic.  I have several projects running at the same time now.  Working on a book on the Polish Legions 1795 - 1808. This will entail the Italian Legions, the demi-brigades in French Service, The Legion of the North and the Vistula Legion.  I may take it through 1815 since the Vistula Legions were reorganized after the retreat from Moscow.  I am also cleaning up some translations I did while researching the Polish Armies of the Partitions and doing some work on a Roman history.  I may be publishing some of these through a company called Winged Hussar Publishing - but more on that at a later date.

So, if I haven't mentioned it lately, Polish Armies of the Partitions 1770 - 1794, is now available for pre-order on Amazon, B&N.com and all good bookstore.  This does not ship until December, but don't wait.  Click now!! Or if you prefer to browse, run (just not with scissors) to your local store.  Sorry this is what I do - shameless shill for myself and my associates.