A regiment a month part 5: Confederate infantery

Today I've realised I bought these miniatures at Crisis 2008, when I finish my cavalery next month (wich were purchased at the same time) there will be a 3 year gap inbetween....
I got my first ECW miniatures in 2009 so I recon the marquis of Montrose will command his troops somewhere between 2012-2013 :-p
All jokings aside, I had to struggle to finish them due to a fragging cold (it's better now thank you very much) and a lack of enthousiasm on my part.
I enjoy painting minis and the testinggame between Tomsche and me was fun indeed, I love the ACW but I'm growing a bit tired of painting grey most of the time so I'll be happy when it's over with.
I recon it's time for a small break before I roll in the cavalery in october.
This 33 man regiment is flying the Louisiana colours and is painted in a more rag-tag look wich is what I like so much about the Confederates.
The banner was ordered at Redoubt and is of the 3th Louisiana.
Why Louisiana you might ask? Why not Virginia? The reason is simple: I've got a fondness for Cajun cooking.... from Louisiana :-)))

John Pegram

Today I've finished my miniature to represent Lieutenant Colonel John Pegram
I've painted him in a darker gray coat and gave him black trousers, shoes and hat to make him stand out from the crowd.
He was a man in his late 20's when the civil war started so I gave him a pose of someone with the confidence of youth and sure victory, hence he's resting his sword on his shoulder.
Since no manufacturer I know of has a suitable miniature of John Pegram I decided to scrachtbuild one from the Perry's plasticrange, obviously the body and arm came from the infantry sprue and the hat was donated from the cavalry department.
I hope you like him.

John Pegram

Lieutenant Colonel John Pegram's miniature ready to defend Rich Mountain

And so it kicks off

Next fridayevening will be my ACW baptism of fire, rather literally since I'll be 'hiding' behind a wall while shooting the enemy, and will be played with Crusader's Rank and File-rules.
They use a '4 miniature per base' kinda system in the case of infantery and all my guys are based individually since I feel this gives me a greater freedom when choosing a rulesset, also it's out of cheer force of habbit (damn Warhammer....)
So I needed  movementtrays, 40x40 mm ones, cheap, pronto,.... bugger
Luckily a funny smelling midget strolled by saying 'fear not Mylord for I have a cunning plan' and pointed me to a stack of balsawood in all sorts of sizes and shapes wich I had lying about in The Dungheap for God-knows-what silly project I had in mind then.
After an hour or so of cutting said balsa wood and coming out of it with all my digits intact I had, after some minor glueing, 6 servicable temporary movementtrays/ 4 model stands in front of me.

As you can see it works pretty well even though they stand almost 10mm apart and yes these are the models I'm painting for the septemberissue of ARAM.
The geezer in front will be Lieutenant Colonel John Pegram for the Battle of Rich Mountain.

Let the hostilities begin.

Thanks all

Due to some technical issues (me and pc's... it'll never be a solid and loving relationship) I'm experiencing some problems right from the beginning with leaving comments on other peoples blogs and sometimes even commenting on my own stuff.
Rest assured that I do read all your comments and appreciate them very much.
I do look at all your posts and admire them a lot.
It's just that I don't want to leave an ungratefull and sultry impression about myself, I'm not like that at all (more nausiating and rude if you ask those I know).
So here I'd like to leave to you all a big 'thank you' for the nice things said and yet to be said about my miniatures and a wopping 'great work lads' to all my follower's creations.
I already know now that I'm gonna miss this and I do hope that an ARAM II: The paintbrush strikes back (or something) will start in november.

A regiment a month part 4: ACW Confederate cannons and colonel

This week I finally managed to finish my first Confederate pieces for my expending army.
I took a leaf out of Skratch's book and considered 2 cannons as a single regiment, just don't ask me what barrels I've put on them, it were the only 2 I could find.
To sort of celebrate the rediscovery of my 28mm ACW infantery I've painted up my colonel too: colonel Robert Sylvain Burnette leading his part of the 5th Louisiana to glory ( at least I hope he will )
I've watched Gettysburg again a few days ago to take a good look at the uniforms, I ended up in bed around midnight having seen the whole movie anyway, and aparently these lads shared the same rag-tag look as most units of the south.
A look wich I like very much since it gives you a mass of variety on the battlefield without going all 'Orky'.

 Colonel Robert S. Burnette

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide Yankees!!!! YEEEH-HAW!!!

Today I was rummaging trough 'The Dungheap' looking for parts for some small project I'm doing.
When I opened a box wich was containing 1/72 tanksprues I found my ACW infantery staring back at me.
I tought I'd lost them for good and there they were, guess the neighbours heard me yelping out of cheer joy !!!
So scratch The Motherland, scratch any Pulp projects I had in mind, scratch my Malifaux Gremlins, the boys in grey have returned.
5th Louisiana reporting for duty SIR!

A Regiment A Month part 3: For the Motherland

Ok, sorry for the lesser painting quality but I broke a finger at work and it proved to be a bit troublesome to hold a miniature with my left hand, it's the one with the 'disabled' middlefinger, and paint with the other.
I've also posted my entry a week early since I'll be on holliday by the deadline time and I'm not driving back from Germany just to post something on my blog thank you very much, hopefully I'll be sitting on a sunny terras sipping local wine and watching the Mosel river flow by instead.
That all said and done I'l like to introduce you all to the good Prince Vladimir Tzepesci from Khador aka The Dark Prince of Umbrey.
Standing next to him both left and right are some nice and lovely Berzerker Warjacks, fully ready to charge and attack at his command, probably they will blow themselves up in the process due to their unstable cortexes but that's just all part of the fun isn't it?
I couldn't resist giving the Prince a cloack made of  the skin of a Syberian Tiger, nothing against these critters personally but I tought it suited his royal status and it contrasts nicely with all them reds and gold.
The 'letters' you can see on top of the 'Jacks are actual Cyrrilic numbers where 'A and B' stand for '1 and 2' respectevly, I had to look them op since my Russian is a bit seedy at the best of times.
Normally entry number 4 will continue with this since I'd like to have a fully painted Khador army just for once.