ACW Black Powder Supplement is coming

Warlord Games has announced that their ACW supplement for their Black Powder Rule set isn't far off   - i really hope its of a larger size and more like Pike and Shotte as the period deserves real attention - im certainly prepared to pay more for more info and detail.

Here is a pic of the artwork that's going to be used on the cover. No other info at this stage but ill post it here on the blog when i find out more.

KCS on the painting table 15/12/15

On the painting table update

Had a good day of painting today. Only the skin and a bit of work on the rifles to go. :)

Also just to break up task i started work on Robs first box of artillery.

Really getting into the flow of painting Union troops. Hopefully Rob will have a couple more boxes ready for me to start work on this weekend.

A couple of other lads from the club have also expressed interest in my painting their confederate and union troops (At this rate our huge game we have planned for April next year will be 80% painted by me.  That a scary thought as at last count the total amount of regiments that will be on the field will be around 45!!!  That's a lot of painting on my part  - Still i love a good challenge.:)

Painting table update, Federal Zouaves.

Quick update on the Federal Zouaves ive been working on for Rob.

Unfortunately a trip for an ultrasound and a big session of pain slowed my painting to a crawl today.
I did however manage to get 6 of them finished.

It should be a damn fine looking unit once i finish all 24 of them.  not the best photo im afraid but it gives you an idea..

Federal Zouaves - The 74th!

Today I started painting Robs Zouaves. I wanted to get these done asap as i knew that a lot of work would need to go into them (since i haven't got too far with the Wheat's Tigers (More on them soon).

I possibly made the task a little harder for myself by choosing to paint up the 74th (probably one of, if not the most colorful of the federal Zouave regiments (or company in the case of the 74th which never got past a single company in size). As Rob is a good mate and knowing his army isn't going to have a lot of colour i wanted to do something special for him.

I've only managed to get all the base colours on and apply and ink but by the end of tomorrow i should have all the highlights on.

Here's a couple of pictures. They look pretty messy at this point and when i look at them i always doubt that they will look good finished but i know they will.

Half the base colours applied.

The blue applied along with the bags and canteens.

The ink applied - super shiny!!

Federal troops finished

Today i finished up Robs first Union regiment.

Hopefully rob will let me take pictures of them once he has based them all up.

They are a little shiny as they haven't had any varnish yet as Rob likes to use a different varnish than i do.

Pretty happy with how they have turned out and so was Rob so that's the most important thing.

Now back to painting some of my confederates before i start on more of Robs Union regiments.

Why the confederate lost the war...

Hi Guys

Just came across this very interesting university lecture.  Far from being a dry retelling of what ive heard or read before its actually a very interesting look at the confederacy and the southern soldier.

Worth a look.

Ps: I should have some pictures of some based Confederate troops with flags in the next couple of days.  Been doing a lot of work on my Painting Service Blog and its slowed down work on everything else.

Mark
:)