Re: Evil Dave's 6mm ACW - The Battle of Proctor's Creek

[Evil Dave]

Messing around with something different, ACW Union Infantry from Baccus that I got from Captain Darling last May. I took Napoleonic Therapy's method and added a few highlights. Everything is Coat d'arms paints. I think this is what I'll be going forward with. Prime 'em black, base coat, and a highlight for most of the colors. No need for washes and if I'm careful they paint up quick enough

[SJWi]

Dave, very nice. I have Baccus 6mm ACW armies and I used same painting method as you. Yes you can take far more time but I found this gave a good result for a fairly low time investment. Personally I use quite a light-coloured static grass/flock as that contrasts quite well with the dark blue and gray. What rules do you plan to use?   

[Evil Dave]

Ya, I'll likely use a light green flock mix as well.

I'm going to be basing them 2 strips to a 3/4"x1/2" base, and then making sabots for Altar of Freedom to start (2.5"x1.25"). That'll let me do Fire & Fury and Longstreet as well.

[Ray Rivers]

Those look great! 

Don't be too concerned about perfection as the real effect jumps out at you when you start gathering a large force.

[SJWi]

Dave, We've also tried Altar of Freedom and they work quite well. I made up some movement/firing measurement sticks so people didn't have to use tape-measures and they helped. All I would say is that many of the battles in the scenario books need a lot of terrain!

[Evil Dave]

Ya, I'm finding that's the catch with a lot of historicals, lots of terrain with a significant portion of it being period specific. Keeping scales between, 6, 10 and 15 lets me reuse trees, hills and water. But the rest is a little less forgiving. Plus painting terrain never seems as rewarding as the troops.

[SJWi]

Dave, at least with ACW you don't need many buildings. WW2 is a nightmare in multiple scales. I can recommend the buildings produced by Leven Miniatures. Very well cast and reasonably priced.

[Evil Dave]

I painted up some more Union infantry. Six strips took me about 3 hours, which isn't horrible for me. I also laser cut up my bases and movement trays this week too.

[Ray Rivers]

Lovely! 

Amazing how the quality of 6mm miniatures has progressed since I first got into the hobby around 50 years ago. 

[Evil Dave]

Thanks Ray. Ya, I'm pretty happy with the quality of these sculpts. I got some of Baccus's AWI and they were nowhere near these.

Finished up another brigade this week. I'm on the hunt for more Baccus skirmishers as I want to have 3 stands of formed behind three stands of skirmishers to make my units.

[Ray Rivers]

Great progress! 

Looking forward to seeing them based!

[jon_1066]

Thanks Ray. Ya, I'm pretty happy with the quality of these sculpts. I got some of Baccus's AWI and they were nowhere near these.

Finished up another brigade this week. I'm on the hunt for more Baccus skirmishers as I want to have 3 stands of formed behind three stands of skirmishers to make my units.
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So like a firing line?  ie tightly packed into a line or acting as traditional skirmishers?  If the later you won't need as many as you can spread them out as you see fit.

Painting looks very nice btw.

[Evil Dave]

The formed bases will have two formed lines on them, one behind the other. The skirmisher stands will have 2 skirmisher figures on them (6 figures per unit).

[Evil Dave]

I finished up another two units this week. Three more to go, including some fun with flags, until I start basing them.

[Ray Rivers]

I finished up another two units this week. Three more to go, including some fun with flags, until I start basing them.

So will that be a division worth of infantry?