There are only a few periods I do in more then one scale and ACW is one of them. This is probably my favorite period overall and therefore I don't want to be limited in what I can play so not a surprise this period is one of them. I didn't have enough confederate artillery so decided to paint some more, but now they outnumber the union so now of course I'll have to paint more union and on it goes!
It will come as no shock looking at my blog that 28mm is my scale of preference, but it does have it's limitations and therefore to be able to do all the scenario's I want I have to be able to go down in scale. For example scenario's with multiple buildings, towns, lots of artillery and/or cavalry or even loads of infantry regiments, ships etc. are beyond what I can do in 28mm. Also my 28mm collection is based for playing games with Black Powder, FoB3 and other such systems where number of stands do not matter, but I still want to play games of Fire and Fury, Longstreet and Pickets Charge which require x number of bases per unit so these will come in handy.
These figures are old glory and are my oldest figures in my collection I think. I'm referring to the figures themselves and not to the paint jobs as these are very recent. I have hundreds and hundreds of these in bags in my lead mountain. Very happy I do as I hate to think how much they cost now! I really like the figures as they pack a ton of character even as old as they are. Painting these is really fun as the sculpts are very painter friendly and do not require quite as precise work like the AB's do for example.
The colors I used were mostly Foundry, but I did include a quite a bit of Vallejo as well. The grass was mostly fine flock and bushes as static grass was a bit to tall for these figures which are true 15's and smaller then a lot of 15's these days.
Next for this collection is probably some cavalry for both sides as that's in need of the most at the moment.
Thanks for viewing!
Miniature Collection- Old Glory 15's
