Confederate artillery is coming along.
Chevaux de Frise from Renedra below. More than 14 feet of it if I put them all beside each other! Fortunately I found a fairly easy/fast way to paint these. I did a heavy spray of GW Rhinox Hide, then a medium "dusting" spray of GW Mornfang Brown, and finally a light "dusting" spray of GW Zandri Dust. Then I just used a good old fashioned paint brush to hit the tips of the spikes with GW Bleached Bone.
Mr. Dan Kerrick stopped by over the weekend for a short time and helped get the railroad tracks along. Tracks are from 4Ground Publishing (MDF). I was able to finish them up on Sunday evening. 4 sections at 18" each to cover the 6' width of the table. I mounted these to thick plasticard and used cork board for the track bed (used an exacto knife to angle the edges). Then some white glue and Woodland Scenics medium brown sand.
Just a quick pick of as I finish the Confederate guns and field positions ...
Fortunately the TO DO pile is getting smaller. Hoping to be finish the final 4 Confederate guns by this Friday evening/Saturday morning. Then complete the remaining gabion sections and cut the foam for the Vicksburg defenses - then it is buildings!
More updates to come. While all my new infantry units are on bases - the bases are incomplete so I do still have a lot of basing to finish. It is going to be a sprint to the finish!
More murderous artillery! Amazing progress.
ReplyDeleteLol, yup ... just 4 more guns to finish :-)
DeleteSuperb guns...and your collection of chevaux de Frise is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks Phil! :-)
DeleteGood luck on getting it all done without the dreaded ‘all nighter’. It’s gonna be a tremendous display when all finished. 😀
ReplyDeleteThanks Stew! The only silver lining so far is that I don't have very much space for the buildings ... so may have to pair it down to just a couple ... which saves painting time there :-) So, maybe I'll avoid that all nighter :-)
DeleteImpressive! Excellent work on those guns.
ReplyDeleteTremendous effort.....beautiful work on the guns 👍 good luck in the last few weeks of prep
ReplyDeleteThanks Matt! :-)
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ReplyDeleteor are they purchased ?.
i love ACW made some perry figures but i would love to have bettle mat in teddy bear fur like yours. love your ACW pictures
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Hello - there are some places now offering mats for sale - but you either have to know someone who will do it or do it yourself. I highly recommend David Skibicki's blog here:
Deletehttp://spudnick080.blogspot.com/2015/11/making-teddy-bear-fur-terrain-mat-my.html --- he has several posts about how to make the mats.
Thank you very much for the help and your info
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