Very nice, I've always liked the varied colors on my rebels, even if it may not be historically accurate.
Varied colors on your "Rebs" is the most accurate thing you could do for them!...lol! I have been painting ACW for over 20 years and have seen many original uniforms. Even the "regulation" uniforms are hardly uniform as the confederate side of war production was largely produced by small factories or "cottage" industries resulting in HUGE differences in color and even design of uniforms. Many of the rank and file had uniforms produced locally and as the war progressed wore replacement items that were scrounged from the battlefield, sent from home, or even picked up from dead enemy soldiers. Last summer I was lucky enough to spend some time in the museum of the Confederacy in Richmond Virgina where they have a huge assortment of uniforms including almost every confederate major generals uniform and one is struck with the lack of uniformity in any of these pieces!
I paint some of my rebel units along these lines, varied, others I like to portray as if they just stepped off their first parade ground, all decked out as intended. Not completely accurate but not unreal.
What ever size of the unit I am purchasing from the manufacturers always get painted at the same time, it is the way I have always painted.
Wow, good for you! I knew there was at least one person out there who did this! I on the other hand have a lead / project mountain so large that I no longer have any chance of finishing it in my lifetime! In fact most of my current shopping is done by simply going through drawers, boxes, and shelves and discovering some great stuff purchased long ago to paint. I have always tried to pick up figures I liked when I saw them in case they became unavailable later.
(http://WWW.HistoricalHobbies.com/DOGS/main/images/VonLostnarm.jpg)
Varied colors on your "Rebs" is the most accurate thing you could do for them!...lol! I have been painting ACW for over 20 years and have seen many original uniforms. Even the "regulation" uniforms are hardly uniform as the confederate side of war production was largely produced by small factories or "cottage" industries resulting in HUGE differences in color and even design of uniforms. Many of the rank and file had uniforms produced locally and as the war progressed wore replacement items that were scrounged from the battlefield, sent from home, or even picked up from dead enemy soldiers. Last summer I was lucky enough to spend some time in the museum of the Confederacy in Richmond Virgina where they have a huge assortment of uniforms including almost every confederate major generals uniform and one is struck with the lack of uniformity in any of these pieces!
I paint some of my rebel units along these lines, varied, others I like to portray as if they just stepped off their first parade ground, all decked out as intended. Not completely accurate but not unreal.
(http://WWW.HistoricalHobbies.com/DOGS/main/images/VonLostnarm.jpg)
hear hear, Confederate uniformity is perhaps an even bigger myth (that has been busted) than Confederate raggedness 8)