Waterloo to Mons

  Forming part of Jackson's Brigade, the 33rd Virginia Regiment still wore their pre-war militia blue uniform coats at First Bull Run. C...

 These figures are my first addition to the 28mm Rebels & Patriots ACW collection for a few years now. They are part of a separate First...

An image that is currently circulating on social media. A Union Officer in a less than period pose of staring at the camera in a serious fas...

You wait months for a post and then two come along  in a week! I have now finished the 16 undercoated figures generously donated by "Do...

 Here are the latest additions to the collection in the form of more Union troops.  I always intended adding the 14th Brooklyn Regt to my co...

 Following my previous post I was contacted by "Dopplebockdunkel" who very graciously gifted me a sizeable number of Jacklex ACW f...

I have finally managed to add a completely new unit to my Classic 20mm ACW collection  in the shape of these Jacklex rebels. I will tidy up ...

In the summer I was gifted these magnificent figures from Mr Aly Morrison together with a hefty pile of unpainted Jacklex figures.  Not only...

 ...gloss varnishing and rebasing. Cutting a long story short just before Christmas I decided to streamline the number of sets of rules I wa...

 It has been a busy summer with very little painting or gaming. Now that the nights are drawing in however I have finally been able to finis...

 I have been away from the painting table for a while but finally have had a bit of spare time to hit the backlog of figures.  I would like ...

 Moving on back to the Classic 20mm ACW collection I did fold and bought one last Gilder unit, this time the 55th New York. Once again they ...

 For one last showing of the Battle of Bryson's Crossroads. Now with a new Union Command stand. Redoubt figures this time, Full of chara...

The addition of the Gilder Charleston German Battery had left the Union woefully outgunned. These additions tip the favour once more for the...

These figures were the first that I purchased from the Gilder collection when it came up for sale last year. They were, until Sunday night, ...

 So here are the last of the Gilder 1964 Collection Union troops, the 6th Wisconsin and 19th Indiana regiments. The rank and file are our ol...

 With these fellows re-based I only have a small command group of Confederates from the Gilder collection left to re-base for the rebels. Th...

 I have nearly completed the re-basing of the last three Gilder infantry units I managed to get my hands on which I will post next week. In ...

As promised last week here are a couple of Gilder Union regiments cleaned up and re-based. The 1st United States, as described earlier this ...

 Finally I seem to be moving forward in 2024. I am having a real splurge on re-basing the Gilder ACW figures I amassed and have even managed...