| Au pas de Charge | 14 May 2019 9:12 a.m. PST |
Does everyone here like just one shade of blue coats for an ACW union army? Or, is there a margin of art that some union units can have different blue coat shades? Or, that the jacket blues within a given unit can vary in color/shade/hue to represent fading vs newer coats? Sort of a Union version of ragged rebels. |
 Flashman14  | 14 May 2019 9:20 a.m. PST |
I think I prefer them uniform. |
| Mr Jones | 14 May 2019 9:58 a.m. PST |
I'm going to paint my Union in varying shades as I think that's how they would've looked, especially after being in the field for a while. |
| ZULUPAUL | 14 May 2019 10:37 a.m. PST |
I used GW space marine blue. Bought a bunch of bottles in the 80's & used them forever. Not sure if the new blue would be the same. |
| Stew art | 14 May 2019 10:39 a.m. PST |
I have 2 shades of dark blue for the coats and tops / hats..
I have 2 shades of light blue for the pants. they're not drastic differences in the colors but it's there. I use them indiscriminately. So on the whole the army looks uniform but there's also variation. I also vary the colors of crossbelts, canteens, etc.. |
| robert piepenbrink | 14 May 2019 10:50 a.m. PST |
15mm and under, uniform shades are uniform. At 25mm and up, I generally grab whatever I have which is in the ballpark, trying to get a different number of bottles for coats and trousers. If I have five bottles of dark blue, every fifth coat is the same color, If I have six bottles of trousers blue, it's every six bottles and only one casting in 30 has the same two shades. |
 Yellow Admiral | 14 May 2019 11:15 a.m. PST |
My 15mm ACW collection is a mixture of paint jobs by different painters, so naturally it varies in shades and styles (and consequently also in poses and sculpting styles). I tend to compose units of figures with similar paint jobs, poses and sculpting styles, which makes it easier to identify unit boundaries on a crowded table full of vast fields of blue and mixed gray/browns. - Ix |
| BrockLanders | 14 May 2019 11:39 a.m. PST |
I used Howard Hues Union Blue for dark blue and Pants Blue for pants for my 28mm figs. For Union overcoats however I used a craft paint deeper blue just because I liked the way it looked |
| Dan Cyr | 14 May 2019 6:00 p.m. PST |
All colors would have faded in the ACW over time due to weather (rain and sun), plus the known cheap quality many manufacturers got away with. So a longer in line unit would have looked different from a new one. Dan |
| WARGAMESBUFF | 15 May 2019 11:18 a.m. PST |
I use three colours of blue for jackets, for the trousers light blue, a darker blue, grey and blue with a bit of green in it. |
| EJNashIII | 18 May 2019 6:39 a.m. PST |
There were multiple shades in real life. However, at the level of miniatures, I would say they would be enough of a difference to be noticeable in 28mm figures, but not in 10mmm. |
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