ACW: 33rd New Jersey Zouaves

 One of the few zouave units that fought in western campaigns.  The figs are from Raven Banner, 28mm size.  The uniforms were blue with red trim including trefoils (french knots?) on the trousers and tunics.

Hasty Breastworks for ACW

 Currently producing a bunch of hasty breastworks for use with 28mm ACW figures.  Each piece is 10cm wide (infantry bases are 40mm wide).  Base is expanded PVC sheet, air dry clay piled on and shaped, Logs and posts pressed and glued into place.  Ballast added for ground cover; I went with the red ballast so I get the "red Georgia clay" look.  I plan on fighting a lot of the Chickamauga battles.  Brown and Sepia over all, some grey on the logs followed by light grey highlight on logs and sand highlight on ballast.  A little flocking and some other foliage details.  Varnish and viola.  Should have about seven feet of breastworks when I finish up in a few days.  

ACW Western Theater Sharpshooters

From Wikipedia, "The 66th Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment originally known as Birge's Western Sharpshooters and later as the "Western Sharpshooters-14th Missouri Volunteers", was a specialized regiment of infantry sharpshooters that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was intended, raised, and mustered into Federal service as the Western Theater counterpart to Army of the Potomac's 1st and 2nd United States Volunteer Sharpshooters ("Berdan's Sharpshooters").

The Western Sharpshooters were armed with a variety of weapons, most notably Henry Repeaters later in the war.

These are Perry Miniatures.

Some Rough and Ready Rebels

 A couple of rebel units without jackets.  These minis are Perry rather than my usual Sash and Saber.

Militia Mustered into CSA

 The figures are Sash and Saber VMI Cadets but as I am building western ACW units, there were no VMI Cadets.  So this a bit of a fictitious unit I'll say is a militia unit mustered into CSA service.  Provides some variation from the normally ragtag rebels.

Wilder's Lightning Brigade Troops

 Some troops for Wilder's Mounted Infantry Command.

In their mobile form

And deployed for battle

New Additions

 Added some Napoleonic and ACW units to the collections.

Saxon Infantry Battalion.  18mm Eureka Minis.

French Infantry Battalion.  18mm Eureka Minis.

Dismounted Confederate Cavalry.  28mm Sash and Saber Minis.

Snake Rail Fences

 So I cranked out 12 feet of snake rail fences in the style shown on the Tactical Painter blog.  They worked out well I thought, good enough for me anyhow.

A CSA Regiment

 Another Confederate regiment takes the field.  This group used a more brown & grey palette

compared to the previous blue & grey palette.

All are Sash and Saber 25mm figures.

A Regiment of Rebels

A new "regiment" of rebels for the ACW collection.  Sash and Saber figures.  When painting a bunch of CSA troops I usually pick either a blue-grey palette (as these fellas use) or grey-brown palette (as the next batch will have).  That way I get some semblance of a uniform within a "regiment" but still get variety across the battlefield.

A picture of the primed troops under the LED lighting.  

A picture of the troops with base coats applied.

A pics of the ready to roll rebels

More US ACW Troops

 Another batch of US ACW figs for the growing collection.

First photo is the sky blue pants and exile blue tunics.

Next photo is the filler going down on the steel bases

And last photos are completed minis.  These are the first photo I've used with subjects under the new GameCraft Minis LED lamp.    The lamp can be used for painting also.  Main feature is "daylight" temperature of the light and the "arc" of light that reduce shadows.  $44 bucks.  I may get another one so I don't have to move it between painting station and photo station.

Spider Women and Serpent Women

 Painted up some fantasy figs.  Not sure of mfr for the snake ladies but the driders are from from Raging Heroes.  The driders were a real bitch to assemble with no assembly instruction so I just fixed the legs randomly.  In theory their were round and square pegs to aid assembly but the pegs were beneath the 3d print resolution so square and round look the same.  with enough super glue and RTV you can make anything stick!  body and legs of the driders were all airbrush and the serpent ladies were all ink and washes.

Alien Extermination

 The ship's damage control party was armed as they advanced into the caustic fog left by the invading alien creatures . . . 

BattleBus 2020

 Let's go kiddo's.  Getting to School in the Zombie Apocalypse.  

Here we are now going to the South side
I pick up my friends and we hope we won't die
Ride at night, ride through Heaven and Hell 

 and here are some in-progress.  Bus is large and heavy (solid resin) so I worked on using a lazy susan thingy.

Base coat,

Metal coat,

Detailing,

Drive Carefully During the Zombie Apocalypse

 More wrecked vehicles from Antenocitis Workshop.  

Keep your eyes on the road and not the zombies strolling on the sidewalks . . . 

And always wear your seat belt . . . 

Be cautious of locals offering to help and remember your cardio . . .

Rusty Burned Out Vehicles

 Ready for the Zombie Apocalype.  Minis are 28mm sized from Antenocitis Workshop.  The rust was accomplished with weathering powders.  Only paint used was black prime and blue on truck.

I did snap some pictures of the work in progress also.  Took a picture after adding each layer of "rust."  You can see the powder used in each photo. 

Grimy black was applied to the dark windows and along the surfaces around the windows to show soot.

ACW Artillery & Crews

 Finished some CSA and USA artillery and crew.  the artillery is just sitting on the crew base so I can switch out 12lbr, 3", 6lbr, and Howitzer pieces.  These are Sash and Saber 28mm figs, nice figs as usual.

And Union Cav All Mounted Up!

 Again, Sash and Saber minis.

Dismounted Union Cavalry

 These are Sash and Saber 28mm minis.   Need to get some more flags . . . 

UK Commando and Italian Troops

 Finished some UK Commando and Italian troops.  I already have a bunch of British special forces, SAS/SBS types, and German Para and Brandenburger type troops.  These will all be used for battles on Rhodes and Leros and other islands in the Aegean Sea.   Not a lot written about the British Offensive and German counter-offensive but one good book is "Churchill's Folly" by Anthony Rogers.