Hi all,
After some years of oblivion, I've taken advantage of this current pandemic crisis for retaking and refurbishing my Army of Tennessee – besides of all my other projects currently in progress.
Yesterday I finished up a new regiment that I'm making stand for 16th LA IR. I hadn't in mind to pretend an historically accurate portrait of it, but rather to represent what an average LA regiment might look like along the first half of ACW – and this is the result:
I've used for building it figures from A. Barton (Battle Honors) and Xan (Totentanz) mostly, with a couple of additions from OldGlory 15s and a drummer from Essex.
Around half the figures have been painted in blue with red kepis, as if they were still wearing a pre-war uniform, while the rest have been given a grey livery – although using a shade of gray darker than usual in my army; so painting them in Vallejo's 70.992 Neutral Gray instead of my usual 70.989 Sky Grey (see this topics kindly posted by Tango01 some time ago).
About the flag, I've arbitrarily assigned it to this regiment, because I had no info about which ones were historically carried by it; it's a nice variant of Confederate Louisiana State flag that replaces the upper red square by a French style tricoleur.
A few pictures and explanations in my blog: soldadets.blogspot.com/2020/05/16e-ri-de-lluisiana.html.
Wish you don't dislike them,
Lluís
adds artillery to his soft-plastic Union forces.
