gingerbhoy's ACW thread

[Roy]

I've got a few to paint, so will just throw all the photo's in here.





There's a couple more pictures on my blog, to be found here ~ http://projectsolowargame.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/acw-union-artillery-battery-pendraken.html
should anyone wish to see.

Any mistakes are because I'm not too bothered to find out what's wrong  

Roy

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Look great to me chap!

[Roy]

Cheers Lemmy.

[I've since altered the bases and painted the cannon barrels, should anyone (apart from mad lemmey) of seen the first set of photos]

Brigade officer will be finished tomorrow, as just the base to do. The it's the slow grind of the infantry.

[nikharwood]

Looking good, Roy 

[mollinary]

Look good to me. NCO's stripes in 10mm - Wow!   

Mollinary

[Techno]

I like 'em !! 
Cheers - Phil

[Leman]

Well I think they look terrific, particularly the guy with the big ginger beard.

[Womble67]

Very nice, I do have a soft spot for ACW

take care

Andy

[Ace of Spades]

That's the way to go!!! Compliments!

Rob

[Roy]

Thanks all.

Picture says it all, literally.

[Ace of Spades]

If I may point out a detail (again... so sorry!) cartridgeboxes in the Union army were virtually 100% made in black leather... you might want to change that?
By the way; if you want me stop talking details just tell me; I can handle it

Cheers,
Rob

[Leman]

Oh go with brown for a bit of variety. Anyone can see they are Union troops. Your speed method seems to work extremely well.

[Roy]

cartridgeboxes in the Union army were virtually 100% made in black leather... you might want to change that?
By the way; if you want me stop talking details just tell me; I can handle it

Carry on, please. Always useful.

I painted the cartridge boxes brown, as Dour Puritan says, for a bit of variety. I'll continue this unit with brown boxes and then do the other three units with black.

Also, I'm going to mix up the uniform in regard differing shades of the basic colours. Again, for variety, and, by my reckoning (which is backed up by absolutely no historic research) the fabrics would be sourced from different manufacturing factories and so would allow for variations in shades between troops not clothed from the same army logistical supply base. No doubt wrong. But, allows me to keep it from getting boring, painting the same colours again and again.

Cheers for the compliments and input.

[Ace of Spades]

I'm almost sorry to say so but you're actually right! Fabric came from different sources and in different qualities and shades because of different batches of dyes, wear etc. so different shades of blue is absolutely correct!
If you want to put in some  'historically correct' variety: canteen covers came in different shades; from brown through grey to sky- en dark blue and some didn't even have covers (or lost them) and were left plain metal. Same thing goes for blankets on top of the packs and blanket rolls; these could be virtually any color; red, natural, grey, brown and dark blue for wool blankets (not even mentioning all the different civilian ones carried around), skyblue for rolled greatcoats, black if a soldier was smart (or lucky) enough to roll his bedding into a rubberized groundsheet or poncho and off-white if he wrapped his cotton duck shelterhalve around it. Haversacks also came in rubberized or plain cotton so both black or off-white are okay.
I guess there's quite a few possibilties to liven up things
If you like too see some pretty damn close colourwork; check out Don Troiani's paintings on the Internet; he's stunning and every single item he paints is thoroughly researched!

Cheers,
Rob

[Roy]

Noted the above.

I am familiar with Mr Troiani's work. Got to say that he does make mistakes though (his own admission, on a painting concerning battle honours on a flag), though he then researches and spots his mistake and paints another picture. I can't remember the name of the picture - I believe it's some Confederate troops sitting, and one is painting a new battle honour to the battleflag. The mistake was concerning the colour of the most recent victory, or some such detail (I can't remember, to be honest).

I think it was these two ... but I no longer have the book which stated what it was.





I did have quite a few ACW uniform books, but got rid of them a few years ago 

Anyway. These are only 10mil, they're too small for anyone to notice, right? 

[Ace of Spades]

I Always say that everything I can paint can be noticed
The main 'problem' is that our armies are not pinned to one exact date as are pictures and/or paintings normally; we want to build something that'll last us a whole war meaning we sometimes have to cut corners or just paint something that is perfectly historical for one date but can be completely misplaced in the next campaign. Painting several versions of one and the same regiment is an option but goes a bit too far, even by my standards...
I know re-enactors though that have uniforms for both main theatres (Eastern and Western) and every single year and both nationalities so why complain about 10mm armies...

Cheers,
Rob

[Roy]

I'll just paint them all up in very dark shades of grey, model on some torches / lamps, and paint on the reflecting flame light on the models holding them - painting troops as a night attack would solve all problems 

[Leman]

Don Troiani's Civil War pp.62 and 63 - apparently he had to repaint the picture as white battle honours pre-dated blue battle honours.

[Ace of Spades]

I'll just paint them all up in very dark shades of grey, model on some torches / lamps, and paint on the reflecting flame light on the models holding them - painting troops as a night attack would solve all problems 

Or leave out the torches/lights, play in a dark room and paint nothing at all; tell the others there's two corps marching down the road and thats it!

[Roy]

Wasn't sure if General's had gold stripes down their trouser legs? I've spotted some on various officers (which I took to be Colonels) but none of the famous generals I've googled wore gold-striped trousers. Unless I just found the wrong pictures?

The horse tack was painted light brown for the contrast - the equine tack I've seen in pictures are actually black. This is me, probably, playing fast and loose with history (again!).