Gibby SLOWLY starts to build forces for Black Powder/ Rebels and Patriots...

[gibby64]

Finished these units just in time for our Independence Day from those "oppressive, tax happy British  " ... (who have also given us so many amazing war games!)
Jest aside, I've been able to get my father into wargaming (finally) and AWI and ACW are some of his historical loves... so I've begun to build a force for AWI... and once a kickstarter sculpted by Paul Hicks get's delivered some time in September I will continue work on the forces... I'll also show work that has begun on our 10mm ACW army. AWI will be 28mm... I'll probably build a smaller 28mm ACW force as well for Rebels and Patriots skirmishes... This will not be updated as much as my stuff in other forums as i'm working on SEVERAL projects right now (aren't we all)....

With that said, here are 2 artillery groups (Don't judge uniform colors for period correctness, I got them close and that's good enough for me!) and 2 Commanders... General George Washington, and General Cornwallis... and of course Molly Pitcher since she was included in the set...
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[ichwillauch]

Fantastic painting an bases!

[vtsaogames]

Lovely work.

[FifteensAway]

Ah, when - oh, when - will someone finally sculpt a proper Molly Pitcher?  You know, with her legs wide spread and a cannon ball hole in her dress twixt her legs.     

Nice work.

[Gibby]

Very nice work.

Your thread titles always make me double-take 

[juergen c. olk]

very nice ,incredible bases.

[armchairgeneral]

Great painting and basing.

IMHO artillery looks better on oval bases but I guess you can't get them for the type of plastic bases you are using?

[gibby64]

Thanks guys! Gibby, i've done the same with your threads!... as for the bases I was going back and forth between this style and a larger rectangle, but the cannons are so compact that I decided to keep everything more compact... nothing looks worse then a giant rectangle not laying flat on a great looking battle board due to terrain... these I shouldn't have an issue with.... now the artillery I just finished over on my bolt action thread is a different story... that howitzer was HUGE... once I finish my push on my japanese force over in WW2 land,  I have a large stack of 10mm ACW i've been collecting and i'm going to start plugging away at that until i have a decent force for Rebels and Patriots... then i'll keep going on it later (after several other projects) until i'm at black powder strength for forces... i've heard reviews that black powder isn't all that great with smaller forces... correct me if i'm wrong.