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

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 

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.

Quote from: gingerbhoy on 28 August 2014, 01:28:36 PM
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!

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!). 

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 28 August 2014, 01:49:27 PM
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.

cheers. I wish I never sold this book now 

Don wouldn't mind you buying a new one I bet
Officers uniforms are always a 'one off' affair; they were expected to buy their own kit and were more or less free to get what they wanted as long as they didn't get any fancier then their superiors usually...

Cheers,
Rob

Very good base.

One of Custer's uniforms was particularly decorative - black velvet, mid-blue collar edged in white with a white star on each collar tab, gold Austrian knots on the sleeves, gold seam stripes on the trousers, red neckerchief.

Indeed; it made him look a bit like a sailor...

Very nice work again, Roy.
Cheers - Phil

Quote from: gingerbhoy on 28 August 2014, 07:43:29 PM
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?

On parade, possibly. But in the age of the long-range rifle I would have thought any sensible general (and I don't include Custer) would wear as unremarkable a uniform as possible?

Not many worried, many died ingloriously.
Sedgwick fell at the beginning of the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, on May 9, 1864. His corps was probing skirmish lines ahead of the left flank of Confederate defenses and he was directing artillery placements. Confederate sharpshooters were about 1,000 yards (900 m) away and their shots caused members of his staff and artillerymen to duck for cover. Sedgwick strode around in the open and was quoted as saying, "What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line?" Although ashamed, his men continued to flinch and he said, "Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."[4] Reports that he never finished the sentence are apocryphal, although the line was among his last words.[5] He was shot moments later under the left eye and fell down dead.

Thanks all. Be a while now before I post anymore pics, as it's the turn of the infantry which will take longer to finish.

I looked up D.Troiani's books on Amazon yesterday, and spotted a few ACW books that I'd not known about previous

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Don-Troianis-Civil-War-Infantry/dp/0811733181/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=undefined&sr=1-1&keywords=Troiani

anybody read the above, or any of the others in the series, as it'd be a help to know if they're any good?

Cheers. Roy