Evil Dave’s 6mm ACW

[Evil Dave]

I started these a few weeks back on a whim. I’m average about 3 hours per 6ish strips.

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Andrew Beasley]

Evil Dave wrote:

on a whim…

Urm O.K. We all know where that goes in 6 mil – the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1:1 next year 🙂

Historic or imagi-nations?

[Evil Dave]

Historic at this point. I think my imagi-nations stuff is going to fully live in the SYW period with 10mm. They’ll be based on 20x15mm bases for F&F and/or Longstreet, and I’ll have magnetic movement cards for Altar of Freedom and Volley and Bayonet.

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Norm S]

They are lovely, just the right amount of pop!

[Evil Dave]

Thanks Norm.

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

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Andrew Beasley]

Coming along nicely.

Are you freehand painting the flags or going for printed ones?

 

[Evil Dave]

I got them from Tiny Tin Troops.

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Evil Dave]

I finished another two units this week. All that’s left are the eight command strips, which I hope to finish next week along with the flags that came in for Tiny Tin Troops. Then I’ll get them glued to some bases and put in the flocking queue.

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Mike]

Nicely done. Left the command until last so the last painting tasks are less tedious and therefore more enjoyable?

 

[Evil Dave]

There’s just different stuff to paint on the command strips (drum, standards, etc) so I didn’t want to bother figuring out how to paint those when I had the regular strips I could pump through. Now I’ve painted myself into that corner though.

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Andrew Beasley]

Never worked out if it’s worth leaving the ‘odd’ strips to the end or use them to break up the monotony of strip after strip of the same…

For 15 / 28s I did use heroes or specials for this (esp with borders like skaven or orcs) but the small guys have so little area different it never seemed the break I needed.

Maybe slotting in so artillery or cavalry could help?

[Evil Dave]

I finished up eight command strips this past week for what I painted so far and got the Tiny Tin Troops standards on them as well. I’ve done some pretty fiddly conversion projects in the past and these are right up there with them. Between all the aligning, cutting and glueing they’re pretty involved. I like the effect though, they add a lot of character.

Dave

http://the-epic-gamer.blogspot.com/
http://warmonger-miniatures.com/

[Andrew Beasley]

Ace – the standards are worth the pain as they add to the look of the troops.

The project is coming along very nicely.

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