Friday, August 22, 2025

Swiss Handgunners

After a couple of weeks of gaming and analytics focused activities, attention returns to the painting desk.  Both of those activities have the capability to expand to consume most of my available time so it is nice to get a reprieve to pick up the brush.
Of course, increased roadwork out on the bike in warm weather leaves me without a lot of motivation to accomplish more than sit in the game room and read rather than actually getting a bit of painting accomplished.  Yardwork is constantly calling as well.  Still, I push through the pain...
Anyway, mustering out from the photo booth today are two, nine figure stands of Swiss handgunners for the Great Italian Wars project.  Figures are from Wargames Foundry.  Nice figures and good to add some Swiss handgunners into the mix.
Work at the painting desk is focusing on 15mm FPW figures, at present, with more Prussians and Bavarians seeing action.  A couple handfuls of Prussians commanders are being readied as well.  An order from Lancashire Games is winging its way to me although the latest reports suggest that it is held up in Irish customs.  Please, let my figures go!  Before any FPW figures decamp from the painting desk, some WotR cavalry may be up next.

On the blogging/tech front, I have been giving Perplexity's Comet browser a test drive as my default browser.  So far, I like the integration of Perplexity's AI engine integrated into a browser.  Given that Perplexity is my favored AI engine, nice to have browser integration.  Will I go back to my "old" default browser?  Stay tuned for further updates on the tech front      

Until next time.

12 comments:

  1. Nice work Jon, going all high tec ah, on the AI??

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    1. Thanks, Ray! I use Perplexity quite regularly for searches.

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  2. Nice painting Jon. Clearly all the bike riding helps with motivation / activity.
    The Foundry Swiss are a bit of a hidden range - I forget the designer - I have an army from when I worked there - still in the pile of shame, awaiting a Burgundian wars project that never happened!
    Neil

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    1. Thanks, Neil! The Foundry Swiss is a bit of a hidden range. I wonder if they were originally sculpted under Casting Room Miniatures and then moved to Foundry's offerings? I would enjoy seeing your Burgundians take shape. "Pile of Shame"? Some refer to it as "Pile of Opportunity!"

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    2. I think the Swiss were sculpted by Dave Andrews.

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  3. Swiss look great. Your experience with the browser /AI soounds

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