1866 Saxon Flags

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Painted my Bavarian Curassier's flag tonight, good source, thank you.
Photos after basing this weekend, hopefully!

[cameronian]

It must be something in the air, I just re-flagged my entire Saxon army, all 16 battalions of the little brutes, must say though, looks better. The Bavarian flags have also been done so that with a sleight of hand (and my old rather poorly focussed specs) they can pass (at a distance) for Bavarians.

[burnaby64]

Probably more appropriate for the books section however since we've gathered most of the 1866ers together here has anybody read Simon Winders 'Danubia', it looks rather good.

It was a reasonably interesting read, a bit too Bill Bryson in flavour for me, nowhere near as good as Claudio Magris' 'Danube,'

[cameronian]

Ah, must read that then, thanks.

[burnaby64]

To be fair, 'Danubia' was doing something different from the Magris book and was quite entertaining and informative. It's just that I found the author repeated certain turns of phrase and mannerisms so often that I became irritated. I liked his earlier book on Germany.