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

[Leman (Andy)]

I've never been able to find out equivocally whether Bragg intended pink edging or whether the red dye bled into the border.

[Smoking gun]

I've never been able to find out equivocally whether Bragg intended pink edging or whether the red dye bled into the border.

Bleeding of the red dye is a possible explation, colour fast red dyes were very difficult to make and weren't widely available until the late 19^th century.

Best wishes,
Martin Buck

[Lluis of Minairons]

That certainly relieves me from guilt, for having depicted linings white...

[Lluis of Minairons]

Guess I won`t be putting my ACW here then.

You shouldn't refrain yourself from doing so, @Spartacus. Sharing each one's work is always positive. Exchange of ideas, inspiration and/or tips can be useful to everyone here.

[Colonel Kilgore]

I totally agree with Lluis. I've learned so much from the contributions to this Forum over the last few years.

Simon

[Leslie BT]

Terry, just post them here via a picture hosting service. like Imgur or another.

Its the beauty of this site it is based around RCFM, but not limited to PP models.

[Lluis of Minairons]

Surprisingly enough, I had not any confederate soldier in zouave garments in my collection, so I've been dedicated to mend such unforgivable flaw lately. For this I've chosen some zouave figures from PP (namely, refs. 02-13, 02-14, 02-43 and 02-44). My fragmentary information about the selected regiment did not clarify whether they wore zouave caps or kepis, so I felt free to choose what I wished; so some help from PP's "heads & odds" range and a screw was needed.

And here you have finally a brand new regiment for my collection, the 13^th Louisiana IR:

More pictures on my blog: https://soldadets.blogspot.com/2020/12/13e-ri-de-lluisiana.html

I feel quite fond of this newly incorporated unit, due to not only their colourful uniform, but also to their learnt history - because it was the only actually multi-ethnic regiment in their army (and perhaps the whole war); raised in New Orleans area, their rank and file was composed of Spaniards, Frenchmen, Irishmen, Italians and even Chinese! Another quite curious oddity is that command and drill voices weren't given in English but in French language (perhaps other Louisianan regiment shared this feature too?).

Hope you like it too,
Lluís

[Colonel Kilgore]

Very nice and colourful, Lluis!

And thanks for the details on the unit - this kind of thing really makes games come to life.

Simon

[martin goddard]

I like those Lluis

martin

[Leman (Andy)]

Cajun boys presumably with the use of French.

[pbeccas (Paul)]

Very nice work.  The flag looks amazing too.

[Leslie BT]

Lluis great to see you have realised the error of your ways and finally got into Peter Pig models.

And they do look excellent in their very fetching zouave garments.

[Lluis of Minairons]

I'm afraid you'll have no other than getting accustomed to my loose criteria at this regard 

As already stated somewhere here before, I tend to promote a jolly figure hybridization (promiscuity?  ) in all my armies; true that for every range I use to adopt one brand's figures as a main source, but then I always seek actively for compatible ranges from other brands.

Such happens even with my 20mm SCW armies. Yes I'm a 20mm SCW figures and models maker myself, but my own SCW armies do include large amounts of figures and models from Bandera, Irregular, BUM and whatever else falling into my hobbyist avid focus 

(And yes, there are PP figures all around  )

Lluís

[Lluis of Minairons]

Now the turn for some cavalry.

Bragg's Corps, Ruggles' Division enjoyed a respectable amount of infantry (up to forteen regiments in four brigades), but just a couple of batteries and only one solitary cavalry battalion: that from Alabama under Capt. Thomas F. Jenkins, that I'm representing with the selection of figures below.

I've left this unit just as it was painted a decade or two ago, adding there just a few touches regarding faces and equipment (washes and highlighting not applied then), new rebasing and a brand new flag --taken from the historical 3^rd AL Cav.

More info and pictures in my blog: https://soldadets.blogspot.com/2021/02/batallo-de-cavalleria-dalabama.html

[Colonel Kilgore]

Those look great, Lluis - very full of character that you've brought out very nicely in your painting.

Simon