Recently made a new home purchase and got a really spacious basement for wargaming.
Still in the process of getting things set up but here a few pics of the work in progress . . .
Terrain storage cases along back wall. Also needs more lighting.
Not pictured is the room for miniature storage. That needs shelves and cabinets to be presentable.
I am fortunate to have this amount of space and can't wait to get the gaming area "lit up" so we can start gaming!
Another unit of Russian Militia. These fellows were painted with a blue-grey palette while the earlier batch used a brown palette. I figure colors would vary a lot with the militia as they were outfitted at different times and by different sponsors and I'm guessing 'cheap' was the guiding quality principle.
And these are again 15mm Battle Honors figures.
A Russian Militia battalion is ready to enter the field. These are Battle Honors 15mm figures.
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.
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.
A couple of rebel units without jackets. These minis are Perry rather than my usual Sash and Saber.
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.
