Vacation Day 3

Well I spent most of today doing Mary Kay stuff with my wife, but I did manage to sneak in a little painting time and got 3 more figs painted and inked, now they just need some highlights!
For anyone interested here are some WIP pics and the paints I used on these.


For these ACW figures I've pretty much just been undercoated with cheap flat black spray paint, then giving them a base color, an ink, and a highlight. Pretty simple.


I've used almost all Games Workshop paints on these, with a couple of Reaper colors too.
Here are the combo's: Base/Ink/Highlight
Skin: Kommando Khaki/Brown/Elf Flesh
Rifles: Scorched Brown/Black/Scorched Brown
Metal on Rifles: Codex Gray/Black/Chainmal
Officer Sashs: Scab Red/Black or Brown/Scab Red
Canteens: Boltgun Metal or Black/Codex Gray Highlight (Easy!)
Sabres: Codex Gray/Black/Chainmail
Union Pants: Ultramarines Blue/Black/Ice Blue
Union Jackets/Kepi's: Regal Blue/Black/Ultramarines Blue
Confederate Browns: Scorched Brown/Brown/Scorched Brown or Graveyard Earth
Confederate Gray: Codex Gray/Brown/(Reaper)Weathered Stone or Codex Gray

Other then the skin, I've used Black Ink for the Union troops and Brown Ink for the Confederates. I wanted to kind of tie them all together so I'm using a pretty limited pallet and sticking to the different washes.
Tomorrow I am golfing in the morning with some of the other MK husbands, and then back to the hotel room to finish these and hopefully get 3 or 4 more completed! I love these mini's!

Vacation Day 2

Two more Johnny's done bringing my 28mm ACW total to 8 figs, or 2 stands! I keep telling myself these are only for fun but I've already caught myself drooling over some of the other sets from Perry Miniatures, they are just so dang awesome!


And the back view..

Day 1 Vacation Painting

28mm ACW!

Just got my first 28mm American Civil War miniatures. Perry Miniature's "ACW1 Hard Plastic Infantry". These are some AWESOME miniatures and comes with 36 figures, with slouch hats and kepis, and adjustable firing poses. I am very happy with the quality of these.

Here is the picture from their website:



Check out their website.

I've got them all cleaned up, assembled, and undercoated. The plan was to start painting them when my vacation started tomorrow but I jumped the gun and have already painted 3! These are so nice and really a joy to paint.
I should have plenty of time in Dallas to paint while Lacy is out doing Mary Kay stuff so I will try to post pics each day with my progress.

ACW Game Pics

Well I haven't posted anything for a while because frankly I haven't done too much lately. I'm still working on my 25 PDR's and Rifle/Machine Gun Platoons for my British rifle company, but the progress is slow.
I have however gotten to play a few games of ACW with my little brother using home rules.

A worthy foe..


The battle begins..


"Artillery, 400 yards.."


Wheat's Tigers


The 21st Ohio


The 11th New York attempts to flank the 7th Virginia


"Strategery"


All in all a good time, I sent about half of my force up the road in the center, but they were caught in the crossfire and destroyed. And then it was just a matter of time until the onslaught of Union soldiers overwelmed my reserves.

Later on we went to the LGS and he bought a few packs of infantry and some artillery, so next game should be even bigger!

A few things I am working on...

My 2nd observer team and staff team for my 25 PDR Battery



Another 25 PDR gun and tractor


I started making some movement dust markers for my desert games, I still need to paint these up.


And last and least an objective I made for the time being, I absolutely hate this but it works. The idea is that sometimes you are just fighting for a spot on the map.

Civil War Fences

I already had a bunch of these made for my personal use, but these ones are for ebay!

Here are two of the six 12" straight pieces that I made


Two different 6" gate pieces


Two 12" corner pieces, 45 and 90 degree angles


And here are a few of the 21st Ohio boys modelling them!