On the bench at the moment.

[billyturnip]

@ Roger. Nearly everyone in my age knows "Grimm´s Märchen" and "Die sieben Schwaben" and her stories. But I fear my 23year old son didn´t know them

I think that one is one of the few Grimm stories that isn't so well known in the English speaking world, probably because nobody knows who Swabians are.

Roger.

 

[Ulrich]

You mean nobody knows Swabians? They have a comic dialect, eat strange things and are stingly = all what we are saying here about scots.

 

[billyturnip]

You mean nobody knows Swabians? They have a comic dialect, eat strange things and are stingly = all what we are saying here about scots.

They don't want to be independent aswell do they? Maybe I should have called the Seven Scotsmen and painted them accordingly.

 

[Dan Morton]

I like the Prussians!

All the best,
Dan

 

[billyturnip]

Cheers Dan.

 

[DEL]

Pulled them right down to scale and the result you've achieved on the faces is remarkably good .... top drawer Roger
Cheers
Derek

 

[DEL]

You mean nobody knows Swabians? They have a comic dialect, eat strange things and are stingly = all what we are saying here about scots.

The difference Ulrich is that as well as the above the Scots are mind blowingly good lovers and world class story tellers

 

[Ulrich]

@ Del: Ok. That could be the difference between the scots and the swabians? But what is your difference?

 

[billyturnip]

Pulled them right down to scale and the result you've achieved on the faces is remarkably good .... top drawer Roger
Cheers
Derek

Thanks very much Derek, the faces weren't without their moments.

Roger.

 

[Watford]

Roger and Ulrich, shame on you, my Swabian friend Roswitha, who painted this scene for me wouldn't be happy

Cheers
Roy

 

[billyturnip]

Please don't tell her Roy.
Useful pic, thanks.

Roger.

 

[tiberius57]

Looks great so far!
Will follow closely!
Cheers,
Zeno

 

[billyturnip]

Thanks very much Zeno.

 

[Joe55]

A nice group you've got going on here Roger !

Joe

 

[DEL]

@ Del: Ok. That could be the difference between the scots and the swabians? But what is your difference?

All of the above except the storytelling

 

[Ulrich]

@ Del: Let´s have a beer or two next year in Ingolstadt and discuss it

The scene is from Roswitha? Don´t know it

 

[billyturnip]

A nice group you've got going on here Roger !

Joe

Thanks very much Joe. They will be staying like this for now as it's time to go back to work again.


Roger.

 

[swralph]

Looking good Roger.

 

[Tarracus]

Love the 7 swabians scene Roger!
Evil rabbit knights on the medieval times is a so neglected subject on this hobby...
Looking forward tho seeing them finished. ( Prussian fusilliers look already great)

 

[billyturnip]

Having spent a month at sea looking at these photo's they've been for a bath in oven cleaner. Updates to follow..... however I've found something else in the collection that takes my fancy.

Roger.