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During the lockdown I’ve decided to resurrect a project I haven’t done since the 1970s.
ACW forces in 1/72nd scale with predominantly plastic models.
when I started gaming we only had airfix plastics so obviously this period was fairly common as you could get almost everything you needed without any converting.
these are my first few bases.
Thanks nick. Zvezda are pretty much the gold standard of1/72nd plastics. Lovely models.
my first four basss of union artillery today, including some very big boy guns.
My chaps, attacked by a Union mouse, the Union chaps were not touched! Time to start sorting them out!
@Nick, the new strelets ACW stuff is excellent, I’m mixing loads of them in with my older figures.
@willz, thanks. 1/72 plastics were the only figures I could get as a kid when I started ‘proper’ wargaming. As a result they hold a unique place in my heart. 8 year old me would have been over the moon at the availability of 1/72 nowadaystoday it’s naughty Texans. No army of the confederacy is complete without some Texans causing mayhem.
@zippyfusenet I finally remembered to get the close ups of my first posted units you asked about.
First stand of black union troops
back rank are Strelets union infantry standing and front rank are ‘call to arms’ black troopers from their union regiments set.the call to arms set is great because it also contains proper ‘iron brigade’ troopers that no one else does in plastic.
a foot command stand for my rebels. The officer is plastic ( esci I think) and the standard bearer is from irregular miniatures@zippyfusenet yes, decided to do each base as a unit to start and then maybe make them into more stands per unit if the rules I end up using require it.
next confederate unit. All from the strelets ‘confederates standing’ set.really love the new sets from strelets where they concentrate on one theme, marching, charging, standing, firing etc.
means that cover it well and you get loads of choices for your units.
these are metal jacklex rush’s lancers, I posted them in another thread but thought I’d better put all my 20mm acw in one thread.
and a couple of jacklex Metal standard bearers and an Officer for a union command stand. ( the reb banner is going into a unit.)Thanks very much @jeffers
im actually in the middle of recovering some original 1970s airfix figures at the moment.
they’ve been cleaned up, rebased, been Matt varnished and had a black wash ready for repainting.
and a new coat of paint basically following original colour and a varnish.now I’m working on the front rank.
front rank finished as well. Managed to find 8 in the same pose that survived clean up.
some were so fragile that when removing mould lines It felt like carving chalk. Several just shattered into pieces. Hopefully these will survive.
another union regiment. Standard bearer is metal from irregular, Officer and bugler plastic from strelets, the rest are more recovered airfix figures from the 1970s.
2 more mostly recovered airfix confederates. All airfix 1970s except the standard bearers who are metal jacklex minis.
another confederate command stand. Irregular miniatures metal figures.
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