Glory!

As promised here is the Commanding Officer  for my Union "army", none other than Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and his men of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.

I wish I had stuck to my original plan to finish these figures last week as by sheer fluke it was the anniversary of their famous attack on Fort Wagner on 18th July 1863 - immortalised in the 1989 movie "Glory". In my opinion this is the best of the Civil War movies. 

You've got to love that flag too!

The figures are Perry plastics with metal head swaps from pack "ACW26 - Black Union heads wearing forage cap", the details are amazing. Flesh tones are from the Foundry palettes 121A-C and 124A-C.

Shaw is a metal Perry figure with the beard adjusted to look like a goatee.

I also finished that gun and crew from last week, taking the Union army to currently sit at 2 x 12 figure infantry units, 2 x 6 figure skirmishers and 1 x gun and crew. I will be adding more 54th Mass units in the coming weeks as the clock is still ticking!

For an excellent 45 minute documentary of the Regiment's history, narrated by Morgan Freeman, I heartily recommend you head here.

I am currently working on another batch of Jacklex "Classic" Confederates for next Sunday

Pour It On Boys!

I have made progress with the 28mm Union forces with these two 6 figure skirmisher units. I have doubled the size of the Union army in a week . I should have finished a gun and crew as well today but the weather is so warm the paint was literally drying on the brush before I could get it on the figures!

Figures are Perry plastics plus one metal NCO.

 I also found 15 more Jacklex Union troops. I had tried to see if it was possible to paint when I had sight in one eye only and promptly discovered the answer was "No". Well they are finished and based up. I will be cracking on with the 20mm stuff after I have finished adding to the 28mm collection. I have just under two months left before the inaugural game.

Next up is the army commander and his unit, which will be made up of one of the Union's more famous regiments. Assuming of course it cools down enough for me to actually get the paint on the figures.

Down Mexico Way

At last I have been able to finish some of the new Jacklex French in Mexico figures. I do hope the photographs do them justice.

Here are the first French bases, I have a number of other figures started but not finished as painting time has been hard to come by at the moment. I had intended these figure to be "shiny toy style" but as the paint went on  the detail really came out and I felt they deserved my best shading efforts. 

 

I am very impressed by the figures; the detail and proportions make for convincing little miniature men. I am looking forward to completing more (and this collection may well take precedence over the Classic 20mm ACW painting). The figures have also open up a number of conversion possibilities but more on that later.

For the moment my self enforced deadline for the 28mm ACW collection is already running into trouble - one month in to the three months planned and I only have 12 figures to show for it. Therefore I will pull my finger out and get serious.

P.S. This post is a day early as there is a small matter of a football match I will be watching tomorrow night. If we win we can bleat on about it for a few more decades. And if we lose we can do the same.