Wednesday 24 December 2014

From MartinC - 28mm ACW Rebs & Cavalry (213 Points)

Time for a points bomb I think. The Infantry are the 18 strong 6th Louisiana walking through a corn field. I had a new delivery of tufts etc. from Tajima today which were fab. I love this wheat field, although the scale looks a little small - bad harvest this year.




I've been playing around with eyes based on many helpful suggestions and pretty close now.  I undercoat the flesh in tan yellow then paint in medium flesh tone (both Vallejo). I then fill the eye socket, cheeks and lips with flesh shade (Foundry) and paint the eyeball in white (Vallejo). After going back and correcting the 10% massive eyeballs and spot the pupil with a 0.1mm micropen and draw on eyebrows with the same pen. I am loving the micropen and went back and redid all the rest of the figs.



There are still the odd quizzical look as the unit tries to work out who's farted, but the mad staring eyes have gone. Similarly there is the odd Groucho Marx but pretty good generally. Bought some 0.3mm pens today (£6.99 for 6 from Rymans) in multiple colours so will be trying them out.

I have also painted up 2 units of cavalry (6 figs in each), 17th Pennsylvania, and the 35th Virginia. Thought about submitting these for the bonus round but found something completely off the wall instead. I love the horses which I painted using the guide in Henry Hyde's Wargaming Compendium - a great read. The rocks are painted garden bark which when given a flesh wash (Citadel circa 1985) look very much like sandstone with bedding planes and fractures (that's the geologist in me speaking, if you don't know about bedding planes watch a cowboy movie - it's the horizontal layers in the sides of the canyon).




17th Pennsylvania





35th Virginia

And finally as suggested by Curt I have redone Lo Armistead too better match the portrait. The braiding was the best I could muster but I added the beard and gave him thinning hair as opposed to completely bald, I did leave the buttons as a single row but may go back and do them as a double if I get time. Now off to try and find more pictures of the other officers - what started as a quick conversion has snowballed.



From Curt:
A wonderful passel of Rebs to be sure! Great work Martin. I'm a big fan of Tajima's products and I like what you've done with the stunted (early growth?) field. Very nice.  I had to smile when I read your reference of Citadel Flesh Wash as I still have my original pot from the early 90s that I dole out sparingly now and then. All this said I'm completely blown away by your redux on Lo Armistead. He looks fabulous! He looks ready to lead his Virginia boys to 'The Angle' in the Yankee gunline...

Well done!

20 comments:

  1. Boom! That's a big point bomb - very well done but I think your troops need some artillery support!

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    1. Cheers artillery in the plan. Happy Christmas.

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  2. A great PB...excellent stuff, the Tajima tufts are great .

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  3. Three times as many points as I've painted all tournament with one posting!?! Fantastic submission martin. Very well done indeed and some lovely looking models to boot.

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  4. WOW! You really are knocking these lads out at a pace and every unit is better than the last. Keep at it sir! The corn field is inspired BTW...

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  5. Nice work and a bit of a nice points haul!

    Christopher

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  6. I will be painting some rebs today (Christmas day) and I hope mine come out as well as these have. Top notch mate. Love em.

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  7. Merry Christmas. Thanks for all the comments. 3 days off painting for Christmas but have to drive home past the toy shop on Saturday so time to buy some stuff. As an aside bought some dismounted cav from the perrys on Tuesday and they arrived yesterday. Amazing.

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  8. First off, you evolution on eyes has been great. I only hope that I can follow your lead when the time comes. I'll also have to look at that section in the compendium. Too bad I didn't bring it with me. Lastly, Armistead looks great.

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  9. Those are some handsome Rebels. I really like your horses. I thought Lo looked great before.

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  10. That's a nicely sized entry! Great work!

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  11. Great stuff! Loving the new, improved faces. The eyebrows are a really nice touch. (I'm still laughing over that fart gag)

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    1. Ta. Think the lift scene in being there, the Peter Sellars film. They were to look suspiciously at each other by trying to work out who'd farted. 30 takes later they were still laughing

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  12. Armistead looks great! Good redux! I love your cav units as well. I'm slowly amassing forces for Miners Creek, but besides lots of union cav, my creation will have all my favorite reg forces in it...an imagiNation battle with Zouaves, Highlanders, and a particular unit of Pennsylvania Cav that did initially use lances!
    I love the horses, excellent job!

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    1. Cheers. Big fan of imaginations. Have a couple that I play with. A 17th C campaign on a continent using map of Santorini with a pirate nation and VBCW campaign in Northumberland. Trying to develop an ancients one but need to do some painting. ACW gives me potential for real stuff and a 19th C imagination.

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  13. Great idea with the pen, must look up one of those pens.

    Lovely bomb you have dropped as well

    Ian

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  14. What a fantastic entry Martin :)

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  15. Great progress with the eye-painting. They look great!

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