When I started putting SYW units together I just picked out a picture from a uniform plate that I figured was a standard Prussian infantryman (I was wrong) and slapped on a flag from a sheet that I purchased from Baccus (the 15th Regiments, cause it looked cool/different). It was only after a few weeks [...]
Archive | November, 2008
11th Massachusetts Regiment
This is the last regular unit left that saw action at Hubbardton. I couldn’t find any specific information on this unit so I painted it up as a generic Mass regiment. One nice thing about the uniforms from this war is that there is a set of generic combinations you can use for each state [...]
Gaining Even More Mass
After my last post, I wanted to show an even larger grouping of figures. This is now 4 of my units at 72 men apiece, roughly 300. This is a fairly average size for a unit in the field during the Saratoga Campaign. Click on them for a much larger image! …and from another angle… [...]
Gaining Mass
With my choice to double my previous SYW unit size and go with 72 figures in a unit, I think I am getting the effect I started out to achieve. With a nuber of units on the board, it is starting to look more like a battle as opposed to some unit markers. I have [...]
Warner’s Additional Continental Regiment
This is a unit that is near and dear to me as a Vermonter, even if it is my adoptive home state. I wanted to do this unit early on, but not as my first unit because I wanted to work the bugs out of my painting first. I really like the way they came [...]
Wow! Long Time, No Post
I just checked in after quite some absence. I see it has been since the end of September for the last post. Holy Shit! I need to get going. To be honest, I became a little disappointed in the project as there were only two comments on the blog and there were very few views. [...]
