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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Mr Pommeroy on October 09, 2012, 11:02:06 AM
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Today I would like to present the latest regiment (acutally it was just a company) I recently finished: Hampton's Legion, Company H, the South Carolina Zouave Volunteers. The figures are Perry's splendid Civil War Zouaves, however slightly customized, i.e. I removed the ornamental elements on the jackets to match their historic counterparts. I also removed the jackets completely on three miniatures in order to add a little variety and re-arranged one figure as to create a casualty-marker. Flag is made by myself.
Hope you enjoy, regards,
Pommeroy
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0562.jpg)
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0568.jpg)
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0569.jpg)
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0570.jpg)
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0572.jpg)
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0574.jpg)
(http://www.muellersjournal.com/wgpics/IMAG0576.jpg)
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Wow, a fantastic unit. I have never seen this unit in colour before and had to rush off and check Ron Field's book. This is a great reconstruction of some very thin information. :D
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Thin information indeed! Not even their flag survived and one has to rely on contemporary descriptions. I based my design on Glenn Dedmondt book "Flags of Civil War South Carolina". I read that their fez was actually grey inside and that it could be worn revearsed, subsequentially more diversity on the tabletop.
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Well, when one of the foremost experts on SC uniforms can only put forward a general idea of what they might have worn based on the flimsy evidence surrounding fewer than a 100 uniforms made and none of which would have survived the wear and tear of 1861.....
Still a nice looking outfit, only the rest of Hampton's Legion to do then ....... :o
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That's exactly my plan ;)
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That's a very nice looking unit. Love the colours of the uniform.
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A first rate unit for the tabletop! Hurrah!!!
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Ron Field's two volume set on the history, uniforms and equipment are well-worth a look for then, along with the Osprey he did on Confederate uniforms of SC and Mississippi.
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I agree, to my knowledge they are about the best reference material for early Sourth Carolina regiments. But as always, there might be more great sources out there I haven't heard about. Another interesting project would be the Palmetto Sharpshooters with their skull and cross-bones helmets.
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Really nice piece of work - can't wait to see the first battle report.
What rules do you use?
Norman
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very nice. unusual color scheme 8) :o
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Indeed, a really nice unit. :-*
I think if I ever did ACW again it would be 1861. Lots of unique uniforms to make a battlefield really stand out.
But at my age that is unlikely to happen so I urge you to do more for us old folks to enjoy. :)
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Fantastic painting...and well staged photographs...thanks for sharing.
Blue
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Thank you all for the kind words!
Norman, it is a bit embarrassing, but I am fairly new to the pastime of wargaming. In fact, I have not seen action more than three times thus far. Those battles were fought according to the "Bull Run To Gettysburg" rule set.
Though my fingers are itching to get back into the fury of battle I plan to bulk out the forces a bit first. My aim is to have eight regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry and a battery of artillery for each side. So far the artillery and five infantry regiments each are done (well, almost ... for some reason I thought it was a good idea to base my first four regiments on 20mm x 20mm bases, hence there is also some re-basing to do.)
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Splendid little unit. Who says all confederate units were drab grey?? lol
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Maybe a newbie to gaming but you have similar books to mine so you must have done a lot of research! Oh, I also checked the flag, I have the flags book too, you have that spot on! :D
If you are doing both sides the bases do not need to be a certain size, all that matters is that they match!
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Great looking unit, love the colour scheme, thinking about adding some to my Rebel forces now!
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Very nice looking unit - certainly different from other Zouave units.
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Cracking looking unit. It's always nice to see a bit of colour in the ACW units.
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Thanks again for the nice comments, chaps! There will be more "colorful" troops in the future.
Joroas, I am just a bit annoyed by having so many marching figures on individual bases, it proved to be a bit of a pain to move those units during battle. I much prefer having four miniatures on a 40mm x 40mm base. The regular troops that is, skirmishers, dismounted cavalry and sharpshooters are a different story, of course.
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I use 40x40 bases myself. What I meant was as long as all your bases follow a similar size they will line up, especially for shooting and melee. :D
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Agreed!
... which reminds me, I really fancy ordering some of the ACW figures in melee poses Steve Barbers recently released. Could be a splendid way to put the left over 20x20 bases to good use. 8)
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Very nice.
Love the color of the unit.
One can almost heard them singing "Dixie"as they march,
to the sounds of the guns.
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Norman, it is a bit embarrassing, but I am fairly new to the pastime of wargaming. In fact, I have not seen action more than three times thus far. Those battles were fought according to the "Bull Run To Gettysburg" rule set.
Though my fingers are itching to get back into the fury of battle I plan to bulk out the forces a bit first. My aim is to have eight regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry and a battery of artillery for each side. So far the artillery and five infantry regiments each are done (well, almost ... for some reason I thought it was a good idea to base my first four regiments on 20mm x 20mm bases, hence there is also some re-basing to do.)
BRTG is a mighty fine set of rules - I found that playing games with them actually motivated me to paint more units (I am a notoriously slow painter). I am more motivated to paint Zouaves than normal troops though, so my forces are a bit Zouave heavy, but who's counting - and not one of my units is as dapper as this one.
Norman
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Splendid!
Very nice indeed,
MW
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Nice eye catching colour and something not often done on the Zouaves. 8)
Christopher