15 mm ACW Units

[vexillia]

New blog post and a new period to boot:

Plus does anyone here know if Warrior will match Peter Pig in height & heft? I could use a trial ACW figure or two if anyone has any knocking about.

https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2020/08/15-mm-acw-confederate-infantry-finished.html

Martin Stephenson

[DCRBrown]

 

Great looking unit! (The tufts certainly work.)

DB

[willz]

Does this help.

There are more photos in the 15mm ACW gallery.

http://www.warrioronline.demon.co.uk/gallery/index.htm

 

 

[vexillia]

Seen these thanks.

Martin Stephenson

[bobm]

Peter Pig are about the same height and slightly lighter build.  They also have Cenfederates in (the far more common) shell jackets which Warrior don’t do.  In fact a fair number of manufacturers put Rebs in sack coats with turn down collars which hardly any of them wore.

There's 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.....

[vexillia]

bobm wrote:

Peter Pig are about the same height and slightly lighter build.

Thanks.  I looks like I should order a few sample packs.

bobm wrote:

They also have Cenfederates [sic] in (the far more common) shell jackets which Warrior don’t do.

Oh no!  Wrong uniform.  Doh!  They’ll just have to be fantasy Confederates.

Martin Stephenson

[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Beautiful stuff!

 

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[Andrew Beasley]

There is a good review of figures at https://www.deepfriedhappymice.com/html/acw.html

I wonder if you keep them in different units if anyone would notice?  With my eyes I struggle to tell differences while painting let alone three+ feet away!!!

 

[Prince Rhys]

Lovely looking unit. Always enjoy your blog posts.

[bobm]

vexillia wrote:

Oh no! Wrong uniform. Doh! They’ll just have to be fantasy Confederates.

…not necessarily.  Look at the coat collars.  If they are stand up then they can be frock coats cut down as sack coats which the Rebs did use.  Probably organised by tailors within the ranks.

There's 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.....

[vexillia]

bobm wrote:

vexillia wrote:

Oh no! Wrong uniform. Doh! They’ll just have to be fantasy Confederates.

…not necessarily. Look at the coat collars. If they are stand up then they can be frock coats cut down as sack coats which the Rebs did use. Probably organised by tailors within the ranks.

Phew!!!

Martin Stephenson

[vexillia]

You made me go digging.  Found this – http://adolphusconfederateuniforms.com/the-confederate-depot-sack-coat-an-overlooked-garment.html

No mention of regimental tailors though.

Martin Stephenson

[vtsaogames]

That shows ’em!

It's never too late to have a happy childhood

[vexillia]

Two new ACW blog posts:

https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2020/11/15-mm-acw-confederate-command-warrior.html

https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2020/11/15-mm-acw-old-glory-vs-warrior.html

First post include lots of free flags like this:

Martin Stephenson

[bobm]

Generally speaking Confederate officers didn’t have shoulder tabs, they were a Union/regular army thing.  Instead they had braided knots above the cuffs.

There's 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.....

[vexillia]

Liked the unintentional pun.

I know but if you think I’m painting free hand Austrian knots in 15 mm you’re crackers! Plus I’ve only painted shoulder tabs on one figure not all and the other general figure has cast epaulettes so I wasn’t going to cut them off.

Martin Stephenson

[bobm]

…who says it was unintentional.

Luckily most of my officer figures wear gauntlets

There's 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.....

[vexillia]

Another new post:

https://blog.vexillia.me.uk/2020/11/15-mm-acw-confederate-command-peter-pig.html

Martin Stephenson

[Author]

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