Meta tags:

Headings (most frequently used words):

of, 2012, the, march, april, friday, wednesday, december, 2011, alcovia, dream, sleeping, wolf, monday, 30, thursday, 29, saturday, 24, 14, labels, king, ullo, chubakov, blog, archive, other, 18th, century, blogs, about, me, followers, images, gratuitous, art, dump, inspiration, adding, little, color, work, has, begun, first, set, rules, to, try, less, successful, alcovian, troop, types, merry, christmas, from, wilderness, inspirational, music,

Text of the page (most frequently used words):
the (58), and (33), share (21), this (18), for (17), with (16), #alcovia (12), rules (12), eli (11), that (11), his (10), nation (9), was (9), arndt (8), king (8), labels (8), pinterest (7), facebook (7), blogthis (7), email (7), comments (7), posted (7), have (7), but (7), these (7), out (7), some (7), 2012 (6), painting (6), banners (6), also (6), time (6), their (6), all (6), colors (6), ago (5), other (5), 18th (5), images (5), inspiration (5), set (5), few (5), good (5), from (5), bear (5), would (5), wolf (5), march (4), color (4), art (4), ullo (4), one (4), end (4), man (4), made (4), any (4), more (4), were (4), black (4), imagi (4), paint (4), about (3), not (3), december (3), 2011 (3), little (3), april (3), modelling (3), background (3), miniatures (3), often (3), who (3), such (3), are (3), fun (3), scribe (3), make (3), get (3), army (3), work (3), guard (3), traditional (3), sleeping (3), dream (3), will (2), find (2), century (2), adding (2), gratuitous (2), dump (2), war (2), humor (2), holidays (2), posts (2), things (2), while (2), came (2), many (2), music (2), which (2), pretty (2), wednesday (2), kuzaki (2), well (2), loyal (2), local (2), men (2), harm (2), come (2), cheer (2), each (2), show (2), bravado (2), boisterous (2), form (2), take (2), those (2), only (2), holiday (2), down (2), much (2), had (2), merry (2), warlord (2), ignov (2), backs (2), horses (2), though (2), own (2), forces (2), too (2), just (2), even (2), alcovian (2), troop (2), units (2), very (2), easily (2), use (2), settings (2), through (2), has (2), provided (2), lists (2), various (2), powder (2), want (2), thanks (2), try (2), far (2), along (2), bottle (2), instead (2), having (2), better (2), quality (2), over (2), going (2), eastern (2), ren (2), figures (2), period (2), way (2), still (2), history (2), friday (2), tribal (2), regimental (2), together (2), important (2), tribes (2), regiments (2), watermark, theme, powered, blogger, followers, view, complete, profile, years, what, you, here, mcristo, lacew, months, saxe, bearstein, stagonia, meeting, engagement, emperor, elector, weeks, general, pettygree, goes, emmaus, campaigns, germania, week, der, alte, fritz, journal, days, colours, uniform, dutch, scots, infantry, regiment, colyear, dalrymple, borthwick, hepburn, douglas, wss, appointment, blogs, july, november, inspira, blog, archive, chubakov, elephant, troops, planning, subscribe, atom, home, older, looking, listen, across, particularly, like, both, powerful, sound, collection, found, others, plenty, they, tend, rock, darned, cool, inspirational, evening, events, song, somber, merriment, loves, songs, ballads, derring, scribes, generally, pick, slip, protected, payed, let, tradition, tries, outdo, fellows, generosity, outright, boasts, challenges, issued, natured, violence, physicality, erupt, endeavors, considered, bad, real, offense, lasting, serious, times, damned, ill, tidings, likely, thrashing, loss, face, among, peers, fellow, pays, coins, words, scribble, wishes, year, learned, crowd, gathered, around, jokes, jibes, another, plying, drinks, attempt, pen, flow, freely, money, festivities, continue, grow, control, makers, gather, round, trad, itional, dictation, letters, grandfather, frost, christmas, wilderness, saturday, flight, fanciful, folly, bold, named, bravery, rather, personal, odor, experimented, bolstering, shock, cavalry, using, normally, trained, circus, performers, romani, gypsies, ride, themselves, performed, admirably, leaping, savage, enemies, rendered, paralyzed, laughter, absurd, sight, saw, picture, online, immediately, struck, crazy, field, seriously, wacky, enough, might, yes, pun, merit, amusing, blurb, them, less, successful, types, hope, table, soon, can, spin, initial, scans, flexible, customized, imagination, written, fiw, mind, classifying, capabilities, descriptive, abilities, ferocious, militia, civilian, etc, transferred, fact, 2hw, quick, special, eras, makes, gamers, folks, cover, lot, ground, don, learn, different, systems, friend, mine, been, era, muskets, mohawks, received, without, specific, advanced, information, system, knowledge, two, hour, wargames, games, skirmish, scale, first, thursday, afraid, didn, today, hoped, bit, mishap, loose, cap, shaking, resulted, spent, cleaning, frustrated, wasted, trying, adapt, inferior, when, did, same, poor, stuff, fortunately, discovery, early, road, mentioned, before, project, because, behind, game, allows, minis, wanted, play, long, participate, community, build, mystique, favorite, armed, printed, pictures, handy, dandy, under, stocked, box, paints, hours, myself, begin, sorting, into, suitable, unit, lots, begun, reading, order, talented, bill, mchenry, feel, results, worth, incredibly, great, guy, worked, easy, thing, considering, mostly, ignorant, military, back, him, banner, needs, future, currently, working, family, guards, bound, maintain, strong, heraldic, symbols, past, flag, sword, majority, steppes, imperial, crown, four, corners, decision, regular, modern, bands, household, people, thought, away, religious, pennants, standard, ragged, characterized, massed, place, proper, national, showing, willing, put, betterment, ahead, loyalties, monday, known, neighbors, mixed, cultures, ethnicities, land, seemed, slumbered, change, chaos, fight, bring, peoples,

Text of the page (random words):
the dream of the sleeping wolf the dream of the sleeping wolf in the 18th century the nation of alcovia was known by it s neighbors as the sleeping wolf a nation made up of mixed cultures tribes and ethnicities alcovia was a land that seemed to have slumbered through history one man who would be a king set out to change all this it was his dream to make a nation from chaos and he would fight a war to bring all peoples of alcovia together monday april 9 2012 images of alcovia gratuitous art dump of inspiration posted by eli arndt at 4 47 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels art inspiration friday april 6 2012 adding a little color along with his decision to try to form a more regular modern army out of the various warlord bands and household units of his people king ullo also thought it important to do away with the traditional religious and tribal pennants standard and ragged banners that often characterized the massed forces of alcovia in their place would be proper national army colors showing that loyal regiments were willing to put the betterment of their nation ahead of any other loyalties still as alcovia was to be a nation bound together it was also important to maintain some of the strong traditional images and heraldic symbols of alcovia s past to this end the regimental flag of alcovia would bear the black wolf of king ullo over the traditional sword of the majority of the tribes of the alcovian steppes guard regiments and the king s colors would bear an imperial crown with the guard colors having the black wolf in the four corners king s colors regimental colors guard colors king s own guards these banners were made to order by the very talented bill mchenry and i feel the end results were well worth it he s an incredibly great guy and worked with me all the way which was no easy thing considering i am mostly ignorant about the military of the 18th c i ll be going back to him for all my banner needs in the future and he s currently working on some banners for some of king ullo s family and some tribal banners thanks for reading eli posted by eli arndt at 8 14 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels background banners friday march 30 2012 work has begun armed with a few color printed pictures my handy dandy under stocked box of paints and a few hours to myself i set out to begin work on sorting my eastern ren figures into suitable unit lots for painting i ve mentioned before that i am going with eastern ren figures for this 18th c project because at this period in time my imagi nation was way behind the game this also allows me to use minis from a period that i ve wanted to play in for a long time but still get to participate in the 18th c imagi nation community and build up the mystique and history of my favorite imagi nation i m afraid i didn t get as far along with today s painting as i had hoped a bit of a mishap with a loose paint cap while shaking up a bottle resulted in time spent cleaning up instead of painting i was also frustrated to find out that i wasted time trying to adapt to an inferior paint when i did end up having a bottle of better quality paint in the same color i ll have to go over the poor quality paint with the better stuff and make it work fortunately that discovery was made early on instead of too far down the road more to come as i have it eli posted by eli arndt at 4 02 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels miniatures painting thursday march 29 2012 first set of rules to try thanks to a friend of mine i have been provided with a fun set of black powder era rules muskets and mohawks i received these rules without any specific advanced information on the system i do have some knowledge of some of two hour wargames other games but only their skirmish scale rules initial scans of the rules show it to be very flexible and easily customized for use in imagination settings though the rules are written with the fiw in mind the rules for classifying troop capabilities through descriptive abilities such as ferocious militia civilian etc this is easily transferred to other settings and in fact 2hw has even provided quick lists special rules and army lists for various other black powder eras this pretty much makes these rules to imagi nation gamers or folks who want to cover a lot of ground but don t want to learn many different systems i hope to get a few units on the table soon so i can take these rules out for a spin eli posted by eli arndt at 7 48 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels rules wednesday march 7 2012 less successful alcovian troop types i saw this picture online and immediately it struck me as one of those things too crazy to field seriously in miniatures but just wacky enough that it might bear yes a pun some merit in modelling just for fun i even came up with an amusing little blurb about them in a flight of fanciful folly the kuzaki warlord ignov the bold named not for his bravery but rather the bravado of his personal odor experimented with bolstering his shock cavalry by using bear normally trained as circus performers by romani gypsies to ride on the backs of horses though the bear themselves performed admirably leaping from the backs of the horses to savage ignov s enemies his own forces were rendered paralyzed by laughter at such an absurd sight posted by eli arndt at 7 43 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels humor inspiration saturday december 24 2011 merry christmas from the wilderness of alcovia as the festivities continue to grow out of control in alcovia merry makers all gather round a local scribe for the trad itional dictation of their holiday letters to grandfather frost each boisterous fellow pays a few coins to have a man of words scribble down his wishes this is a good time of year for learned men in alcovia and much fun is had by all as the crowd gathered around the scribe jokes and jibes at one another plying the scribe with more drinks in an attempt to make his pen flow more freely for their money it is also tradition that each man tries to outdo his fellows in a show of generosity good cheer and outright bravado boasts are made challenges issued and good natured violence and physicality often erupt from these boisterous endeavors it is considered bad form to take any real offense or do any lasting or serious harm at these times and those that do are not only damned to ill holiday tidings but likely a good thrashing and loss of face among their peers these evening events often end in song and somber merriment with kuzaki loves songs and ballads of derring do the scribes generally pick this time to slip out protected by a few well payed and loyal local men who will let no harm come to a man of such good cheer posted by eli arndt at 2 37 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels background holidays wednesday december 14 2011 inspirational music looking for things to listen to while modelling and painting i came across this one that i particularly like for both the powerful sound and the collection of images i have found many others with plenty of images but they tend to be set to rock music which is also pretty darned cool posted by eli arndt at 3 46 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels inspiration older posts home subscribe to posts atom labels miniatures 4 planning 4 inspiration 3 troops 3 background 2 art 1 banners 1 holidays 1 humor 1 modelling 1 painting 1 rules 1 war elephant 1 king ullo chubakov i blog archive 2012 5 april 2 images of alcovia gratuitous art dump of inspira adding a little color march 3 2011 8 december 4 november 2 july 2 other 18th century blogs not by appointment colours and uniform of dutch scots infantry regiment colyear dalrymple borthwick hepburn douglas in the wss 3 days ago der alte fritz journal 1 week ago campaigns in germania general pettygree goes to emmaus 5 weeks ago emperor vs elector saxe bearstein v stagonia in a meeting engagement 5 months ago mcristo by lacew what will you find here 18 years ago about me eli arndt view my complete profile followers watermark theme powered by blogger