"28mm 76th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Keystone Zouaves" Topic

Happy to have finished my 2nd Union zouave regiment now, the 76th Pennsylvania. These are a mix of Perry plastics and Foundry metals.

I think these turned out better than my Duryee's Zouaves, mainly like the look of their blue jacket with lt. blue pantaloons.

Next unit will be Wheat's 1st Special Battalion for the Rebs (if I botch their pants striping you'll never see 'em). ;)

Beautiful job! Thanks for posting!

Beautiful work.

You can tell you took your time painting these and they came out very nice. Very nice.

Nicely done!

Very nice! Thanks for sharing your work.

Thanks all for sharing your kudos!

I'm going to lay out the Union collection, now that I have it completed, and spam a picture of them here (might even get around to adding some Cav. and limbers to it someday too).

Wow – great work!

Thanks Frederick!

Here's my two Union brigades turned out for an early morning muster. Basically, less than 3 feet across in line….hmmm, that was a lot of time and expense for this 'good ground', and some hoped-for fun.

(I'll be spreading these out a lot more during the gaming!) :)))

Man, it's been over a year to get back to Wheat's Tigers here – these all painted up as the Tiger Rifles of B Co., the 1st Louisiana Special Battalion.

They're Perry metals and plastics, and as close as I can get using the plastics with their molded on jambieres, which I decided to paint black, more like those of Coppens' Louisiana Zouave Battalion.

I drew on the pantaloon stripes with a fine-tip permanent marker, and the lines look a lot less wiggly at tabletop viewing distance, and I'll just say it makes the figs look like they're moving….. ;) – *good enough for gaming*.

Very nice indeed and the idea of drawing the stripes on is original .

Best wishes,

Chris

Chris, thanks for that!

Nice Tigers. I should know I am one. When I painted mine, I painted horizontal navy blue stripes on the jambieres like the socks they wore. TIG

Very nice figures, FlyXwire.

Capt. Pete, thank you!

The collection here is in a state of improvement, to make the single-based figures more movement friendly, as units.

I do like the round washer bases, and the irregular outline of the figs arranged together into formations on the tabletop, but they've been too tippy on the teddy bear fur as individual minis. With my plan of going towards multiple brigade games for the collection, that'll require a quicker means for players to move these figs around, so going the sabot route here.

These 5-figure stands are from Terrain Genesis,and they still help meld the rounded stands down into the TB grass nicely, but will now allow better "mass movement".

Another benefit/option of the sabot mounting that I'm hoping to enable, is having the option of grouping the generic-painted figures together into larger regiments of 20-ish figures – to play scenarios at finer ground scales with these.

I'll post some pics of the multi-grouped units as soon as I get my next delivery of stands. :)

A follow-up on my sabot basing journey, with a basing arrangement that'll work with my figs, on fur mats, with rules – and/or for multiple game scale preferences. Maybe a lot of effort just to put round-edged bases together, but having decided to go [and stay] with the round bases, I believe this arrangement will work flexibly enough (and maybe something here of interest for a few others).

Union figs all on sabot bases now, and so here's how they look in the field.

(pleased now with their ease of placement, and stand stability)

Rebs are next, but some unit painting to do too.

Where are you getting the eagle finials?

Many of those seen above are Steve Barber ACW eagle finials, that I bought here in the US from Triangle Miniatures.

Their stock number is AA2 (5 per pack w/cords that I cut off).

SB Models also has a 5-pack of spearpoint finials (AA1).

Marvellous stuff and the eagles look fantastic.

If you want decent authentic fences which are easy to make try this link,it's brilliant.

I used spliced twigs as per the original method dyed with brown umber ink.

YouTube link

Best wishes,

Chris

Chris,

That is a good video!

I guess as gamers, we've often automatically moved along or up to modeled fence lines, but the narrator does remark that fence lines and walls were often easy points of geography that commanders could use to convey deployment areas for their troops in the field, or assigned as ready-recognizable objectives.