Confederate Artillery

Well I finally finished some more stuff. I am working on another Confederate Infantry Regiment and I will try to post some finished stands later this weekend.

Here are some closeups-

Christmas in November!

Well a few weeks ago I got my order in from Sash and Saber!



I've been pretty busy but I've managed to start on the Confederate Artillery, here are a few work in progress pictures.







I am really happy with these figures, they have great character and the castings were very clean. It took me maybe 30 minutes to clean and trim over a hundred figures which was a pleasant suprise! One of my favorite things is that there is a huge variety of facial hair with some massive beards and mustache's which really give that Civil War feel.

Blanket rolls & touchups

Well I am still waiting on my figs from Sash and Saber to come in, and so I thought I would touch up a few things I'd seen in a few of the pics. And I've also been looking at some other people's stuff, especially here and I wanted to try my hand at a few blanket upgrades. I just did solid brown or gray for these at first but it makes a lot of sense that they would have home made blankets and whatever they could scrounge up. It definitely adds some more color to these.

Sash and Saber order!!

I just placed a big order tonight with Sash and Saber. Eighty infantry and four 12 pounders with crew.... so once those arrive I will be posting a lot more!

Workbench

Nothing special, just a few little things I've been messing with this week.

I'm trying to keep momentum going with my Flames of War, MW 8th Army Infantry Company- although it's difficult to keep painting dozens of stands with a 10 color desert pallete!




I was at Hobby Lobby one day and saw a box of AWI British soldiers on clearance for a few bucks, so of course I bought them! No real future for these other then just looking good! But they are a nice little break and an excuse to paint something with colors other then blue, gray, or tan!

19th Indiana

I painted these up a few weeks ago. The 19th Indiana, part of the Iron Brigade. I really like basing them en masse like this. I think it has a better look then the neat little lines.

Union Cav

Alright, these are pretty much done... of course they still needs flags and matte spray (I blame the weather and make excuses but I think I'm just scared to death of spraying them and it frosting them!). Click to enlarge pictures.

Here is a group shot, again these are Perry Miniatures (ACW Cav plastic boxset).

Closeup of the first half, Command stand on the left.

Closeup of the second half.

And some closeups of individual stands-
I went Hollywood and gave the commander a white horse!

I just liked how this horse turned out.

I was pleased with the overall look of this guy.

The great thing about these plastics is that they scream for you to do some conversions. I took one of the extra firing arms from the Infantry boxset and cut the musket out of the hands, then glued them to the Cavalryman's body and gave him a carbine. Pretty simple but a little tricky. I should have taken work in progress pictures but alas I am lazy! Maybe next time!

And another view of him.