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Did artillery team riders wear gloves or just bare hands	4	15 Oct 2020 5:51 a.m. PST
What am I doing wrong?	56	12 Oct 2020 5:20 p.m. PST
GW Contrast paints for Union	4	09 Oct 2020 11:59 a.m. PST
Uniforms of Pickett's Charge	7	24 Aug 2020 12:43 p.m. PST
Minisoldiers 1/35 Union Infantryman	5	20 Jul 2020 8:36 p.m. PST
Dirt on Horse and Musket figures - how do you do it?	16	20 Jul 2020 11:58 a.m. PST
What did ACW soldiers carry into battle?	7	03 Jul 2020 11:25 a.m. PST
Sash & Saber GW Contrast or Vallejo set?	7	07 May 2020 5:47 p.m. PST
Help painting GHQ ACW 10mm flags	4	05 May 2020 9:53 p.m. PST
55th NYSV Gardes de Layfette	4	20 Mar 2020 12:52 p.m. PST
6mm units for Gettysburg - photos.	10	19 Mar 2020 1:26 p.m. PST
What color are your... cannonballs?	21	15 Mar 2020 4:43 a.m. PST
How many different figures do you need	21	02 Mar 2020 12:47 p.m. PST
Will the Right Cadet Gray Please Stand Up?	7	19 Feb 2020 4:42 p.m. PST
Anglo Danish Coerls (Back Rankers!)	10	01 Feb 2020 2:40 a.m. PST
Is Vallejo changing their color names?	12	16 Jan 2020 8:55 a.m. PST
73rd and 74th New York (Excelsior Brigade) 'Zouaves'?	2	10 Jan 2020 3:35 p.m. PST
Vallejo - is me or them?	17	02 Jan 2020 5:12 a.m. PST
Is my corn too tall?	14	15 Dec 2019 5:35 a.m. PST
Painting and basing 2mm miniatures	14	15 Oct 2019 7:35 a.m. PST
15mm cavalry painting cavalry	10	14 Oct 2019 1:02 p.m. PST
What Vallejo Color for Federal Blue	9	09 Oct 2019 7:30 p.m. PST
Slit Rail fence size??	17	04 Oct 2019 3:56 a.m. PST
Painting horse markings?	29	22 Aug 2019 8:51 a.m. PST
Wire / Rod for Flag Staffs?	25	10 Aug 2019 2:13 p.m. PST
Foundry ACW Paint Set	7	18 Jul 2019 4:59 p.m. PST
A horse of a different colour - specifically, white.	3	17 May 2019 1:05 p.m. PST
Source for 15mm US Cav Stars and Stripes guidons?	7	19 Apr 2019 4:13 a.m. PST
Militia Uniforms, early Civil War 1850-1860 ish	5	16 Apr 2019 4:45 p.m. PST
15mm(1/100) battletech Atlas	9	08 Apr 2019 9:11 p.m. PST
Need reference ACW era female	12	04 Apr 2019 2:12 p.m. PST
Militia Company Uniforms?	8	03 Apr 2019 10:51 a.m. PST
Ideas for ACW of 185_?	11	01 Apr 2019 8:15 a.m. PST
How do you get realistic folds in paper flags?	25	11 Mar 2019 9:35 a.m. PST
Steve Barber Models - ACW Painting Guide	1	23 Feb 2019 12:35 p.m. PST
From bag to base – Painting Pendraken 10mm ACW	15	10 Feb 2019 4:00 p.m. PST
ACW uniforms in 360º view	2	26 Jan 2019 7:19 p.m. PST
Been Painting Confederates	3	17 Jan 2019 6:18 a.m. PST
Artillery Basing Question	16	05 Dec 2018 5:01 p.m. PST
1859 US Cavalry uniforms	9	02 Aug 2018 11:19 a.m. PST
What's the flag?	5	23 Jul 2018 4:08 a.m. PST
Fortress guns	3	20 Jul 2018 6:27 p.m. PST
How I paint my 15mm ACW Union infantry	8	06 Jul 2018 2:20 a.m. PST
ACW soldiers in AWI uniform question	7	29 Jun 2018 7:21 p.m. PST
12lb Napoleon barrels	18	28 Jun 2018 5:13 p.m. PST
Pontoon bridges - painted?	9	02 May 2018 8:05 a.m. PST
Vallejo ACW set	5	04 Apr 2018 9:38 a.m. PST
Confederate militia	4	05 Mar 2018 10:49 p.m. PST
Confederate Miniature Painting Progress	15	09 Jan 2018 8:11 a.m. PST
Dry brushing Union Coats	15	18 Dec 2017 2:25 p.m. PST
Block paining ACW Union Troops	13	18 Dec 2017 4:29 a.m. PST
CSS H. L. Hunley	5	09 Dec 2017 1:00 p.m. PST
PA reserve Regiments Early War	11	20 Nov 2017 11:21 a.m. PST
The South's White Uniforms by Fred Adolphus	12	09 Nov 2017 7:30 a.m. PST
ACW Project Musings	8	06 Oct 2017 7:55 p.m. PST
Paintbrush for 6mm?	17	05 Sep 2017 9:05 p.m. PST
How Should I Speed Up My Painting	20	07 Aug 2017 7:40 a.m. PST
how many shades of gray	13	26 May 2017 9:58 a.m. PST
Vallejo Union Blue?	20	26 May 2017 9:36 a.m. PST
Issue 410 of Miniature Wargames is on the Horizon...	5	15 May 2017 5:47 a.m. PST
15-18mm "stars and stripe" cavalry guidons	7	09 May 2017 6:43 p.m. PST
Whats this flag?	12	08 May 2017 10:02 a.m. PST
Most Helpful TMP Member on the ACW Boards?	16	04 May 2017 9:54 p.m. PST
Louisiana Regiments	5	19 Apr 2017 5:42 a.m. PST
Hickory shirts (etc)	15	11 Apr 2017 12:15 p.m. PST
City and town streets	8	21 Mar 2017 1:51 a.m. PST
Mission Models Paints?	7	15 Mar 2017 7:22 a.m. PST
Union greatcoats at Kernstown 1862	6	25 Feb 2017 10:35 a.m. PST
Ready for the dumbest horse question ever?	26	07 Feb 2017 7:19 p.m. PST
Pithead Miniatures is busy	4	07 Jan 2017 6:57 p.m. PST
Help enhancing 1/1200 wooden warships	11	04 Jan 2017 4:30 p.m. PST
Updated Article on Confederate Sack Coats	8	03 Jan 2017 10:47 p.m. PST
New Article by Fred Adolphus on Artillery Jacket	6	03 Jan 2017 10:39 p.m. PST
speed - painting 500 6mm ACW figures	16	01 Jan 2017 4:32 p.m. PST
Looking for ACW officers with correct revolver	11	29 Dec 2016 8:04 p.m. PST
Matt varnish drying glossy - cure?	37	29 Dec 2016 5:08 p.m. PST
Maltese Crosses in 28mm?	1	29 Nov 2016 11:35 a.m. PST
Captain Sims truce flag?	2	28 Nov 2016 7:14 p.m. PST
ACW General's Horses Colors Reference	5	15 Oct 2016 11:54 p.m. PST
Paint Scheme for the 73rd New York (2nd Fire Zouaves)	13	08 Oct 2016 8:50 a.m. PST
Good painting choice for CS Brigade 1st Day Gettysburg	10	04 Oct 2016 9:00 a.m. PST
Uniforms of the 1st Kansa Colored Volunteers	5	20 Sep 2016 4:32 p.m. PST
Painting 25mm ACW newbie questions	15	15 Aug 2016 9:32 a.m. PST
Cadet Grey?	9	08 Aug 2016 7:20 a.m. PST
1st Minnesota @ Bull Run	12	28 Jul 2016 6:20 a.m. PST
A note of thanks from Shirley	7	17 Jul 2016 10:22 p.m. PST
Perry Miniatures,Bushwhackers are coming!	15	13 Jul 2016 5:56 a.m. PST
GW colors for ACW?	5	25 Jun 2016 5:54 p.m. PST
Part III of Fred Adolphus' Research	5	25 Jun 2016 8:20 a.m. PST
Chariot basing	12	23 Jun 2016 4:48 a.m. PST
Fixed?: Missing Figures In Plastic: ACW	13	22 Jun 2016 5:55 a.m. PST
How Polished Did They Keep Their Cannon	28	15 Jun 2016 4:57 a.m. PST
2nd MA flag?	6	26 May 2016 10:52 a.m. PST
ACW rank insignia images	5	18 May 2016 7:27 a.m. PST
Early Militia Grey uniforms?	8	12 May 2016 1:14 p.m. PST
Good ACW uniform source - online?	13	10 May 2016 6:44 a.m. PST
Slouch Hats	8	13 Apr 2016 4:59 p.m. PST
Converting model railroad buildings for ACW	6	13 Apr 2016 12:58 p.m. PST
PartII of Fred Adolphus' article on CS uniforms now online.	4	11 Apr 2016 2:47 a.m. PST
Color of wooden carriages for heavy fort guns	9	10 Apr 2016 9:06 a.m. PST