A Miniature History of the American Revolution

For the past several months, I've been working on battle of Guilford Courthouse project , in which I plan to depict the battle in miniat...

The last time I wrote about the Guilford Courthouse diorama, I had finished making the ridges and ravines on the western half of the battle...

Progress on my model of the Guilford Courthouse battlefield has been slow but steady. In brief, the model battlefield is intended to be a so...

Some more progress has been made on the battle of Guilford Courthouse diorama, although it is still far from completion. The last time I wro...

For some weeks I've been making preparations for a new major project. Mainly these preparations have involved painting some new regimen...

I always enjoy reading about how others paint their miniatures, and although I am not the most skillful of painters, I thought I would devot...

Recently, I looked back at my blog postings from last year. In this post I consider future directions for this blog. One thing that I’ve de...

As I've recently commented , I haven't been getting a great of painting accomplished lately, but there has been progress. Fresh from...

I manage to fit some American Revolution-themed reading or writing into most evenings. However, I probably don’t paint miniatures more than ...

Two things I'd like to do with this blog are 1) write on a variety of different topics, and 2) depict big battles of the Revolutionary W...

My free time this summer has been spent chiefly reading and researching the American invasion of Canada; only recently have I picked up a pa...

An important source of information on the battle of Ramsour’s Mill is Wallace Reinhardt's interview of Adam Reep. Reep was an elderly v...

The last time I wrote about painting , I was finishing up the Green Mountain Boys . Since then I've completed a batch of Native American...

Recently, I concluded my Thomas Sumter project, which began last summer . I spent some time recently looking back at this project and doing ...

I didn't get much painting done during the first several months of the year, but recently there has been an uptick in my output. I'v...

When I first decided , last summer, to spend a lot of time with the battle of Hanging Rock, I thought that I would be able to use many of th...

The autobiography of James Collins contains a succinct description of the dress of the American militiamen fighting in the South Carolina Ba...

I've begun posting to this blog once a week on weekends. Hopefully, I'll be able to continue at this pace for some time. Although I...

I haven't built a battlefield for miniatures before, so I've been relying on trial and error. I first attempted to arrange shapes un...