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ACW 15mm Epics Generals This week I will try and keep it short and just summarise the remaining elements of this army. Starting with General Lee and Divisional Commanders. ‘Old Man on the Hill’   This little diorama was really easy to achieve, I used the limited edition models that came with the epic battles box set from Warlord Games. I also cut one strip into bits to reflect a unit marching past. Brig Kempton and Armistead The next little conversion was made using the same strips command but separating them and repositioning arms, and cleaning up with green stuff. This allowed me to make Brig Armistead with his hat on his sword for Pickett's charge. Stuart, Longstreet, Pickett with more Brigs Last of the commanders are above I am sure you are familiar with them all. Two figures on a base are Divisional, and one Brigade, using a mixture of Peter Pig and Warlord Games together here. Bases are just sand and a few rocks not painted to give a dusty feel of summer. Some small patches o...

ACW 15mm Epics The Texas Brigade It has been a few weeks since I posted last and wanted to get this post out to continue my plunge into the ACW army I painted over COVID.  1st Texas Regiment Last time out we saw the first two brigades I painted and how they differed in style and converstions. Here using Peter Pigs 15mm range I even managed to fit 10 per rank onto the same base size as the Warlord Games range. I think this is useful to show as I know I was looking for size comparisons and alternative references while I was collecting this army. 4th Texas Regiment For the Texan Brigade the choice of painting here is more red shirts and straw hats for the 1st Regiment with more confederate grey coming into the 4th and 5th Regiments. I was trying to achieve the historical accuracy of the Texan Bridge having a more militant feel for cowboys, ranchers and farm hands.  These stand out quite well on the table top and are not too big a size difference. In addition the Texians did widel...

ACW 15mm Epics The Stonewall Brigade This week I want to introduce an army I painted over COVID. Warlord Games had just released their range of ACW epics or 15mm, and I had time on my hands. So I plunged right in. I had never painted anything smaller than 28mm up until I did these and it was a massive learning curve.  First Completed Strip First I started with the Stonewall brigade, these were painted in the generic style of the period of a mixed style and colours of uniforms. During ACW the Confederacy had many issues from reusing old Union kit, through to massive supply shortages later in the war. The uniform was often varied sometimes bright, and wild in places, right through to a ragged look later on. Here I have gone for middle of the road mix of butternut and light blue grey, or Confederate grey.   First Completed Regiment When I first got the box with over 100 strips in, I was a bit daunted at the prospect of painting all these. I quite quickly worked out that I di...