Well I thought I would take the risk and reveal what I have done with my Confederate Army so far since starting work on it just over a month ago. So bear in mind this is a project I have undertook with virtually no idea of the period!
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I think Im about two-thirds of the way through it, but I keep buying more bits, which aint helping!
I wont make any claims to it being historically accurate in the detail, as I am new to ACW as it has always been the one period I swore I would never bother with! Now I find the more I paint and read the more interesting I find it and my general interest in the period has grown immensly.
Have to admit, Im getting pretty fond of this army and it aint even seen any action yet!
My mate is painting the Union troops (ACW is his thing, so I volunteered to do the Rebs as payback for all the weird projects I have forced on him) and I have tried to get a 'generic' Confederate look to my army… I warn you now, it may be a bit more of a 'Hollywood' Confederate Army!
So all that aside, I must say Im pleased with what I have done so far and the look of the army. There are a few things I would change now I am more familiar with the period, but on the whole Im pretty pleased with it and I hope it will look like a Confederate Army once its on the table! It is also the first full size 28mm Historical Army I have ever painted… Generally I just do skirmish stuff in that scale (ok some of those skirmish projects have over 100 figures in them but you know what I mean!).
Anywho, bear all that in mind when you look at the pics, and I hope it dont offend the ACW experts too much! Be gentle with me… ;-)
My last infantry unit will be painted as Clinch's Rifles in their nice 1861 green outfit… I know, rather pointless, but it will look pretty!
adds artillery to his soft-plastic Union forces.
ed off