[Soldadets] Refurbishing my Army of Tennessee (some PP)

[Anatoli]

Nice work !!

It is quite unusual to see miniatures for early ACW regiments ... It brings a certain "flavor" to the battlefield...

[Leman (Andy)]

Indeed Lluis the early figures certainly add to the look of the 1861 and early 1862 games, before the Confederate commissary began to supply uniforms and the states got their uniform production better organised. Late 1861 and up to Antietam 1862 is the best period of the war to also have home produced butternut uniforms (not 1864/65 as popular myth would have it). Regarding Freikorps figures, their complete range, with some additions, is available through Quick Reaction Force in the UK, using a much better quality of alloy than the original figures produced in Northern Ireland. I have a very nice unit of early war Confederates in havelocks produced by FK15 (QRF).

[Lluis of Minairons]

Those below have little, if any, to do with the real Army of Tennesse - but I strongly wished to have them in my collection.



This unit is something of a Frankenstein that I assembled using, modifying and recombining in the most cruel and horrible ways figures of quite diverse origin (Essex, FreiKorps, Old Glory 15s, AB Figures and PP, to be precise), trying to recreate a famous regiment formed by the Cherokee Nation during the ACW (with debatable success, I now think in retrospect).



The unit was actually painted some years ago, but I've recently restored it as part of the project I undertook to rebuild my Confederate 15mm army. I haven't touched the basic paint scheme, but I have added a few tweaks, mostly related to the application of washes and lighting. A rather conservative approach, then.



As I use to do, the unit has a mounted and a dismounted version.

Cheers,
Lluís

[Leman (Andy)]

I like the mix of native and European dress and the fact you have dismounted as well. Very appropriate for the ACW.