Merry Christmas + ACW artillery and wagons

 Merry Christmas everyone 

Between unwrapping gifts with the family, (I received a 3D scanner, which is going it introduce some very interesting possibilities) and cooking Christmas Dinner, I had a couple of hours to do some undercoating, so I can get some of my personal projects finished over my time off.

I’m concentrating on some Union artillery, limbers and ammunition wagons, I CAD designed an ACW ammo wagon for a well known 15mm ACW producer recently (I’ll let them make any announcements in their own time) and I used the files to print some wagons for my 1/72 ACW project, this is the first time I have painted these wagons so it’ll be interesting to see how they paint up. 

The gun crew are all based on the Airfix set, I’ve left 1 crew of 4 figures unconverted for nostalgia reasons, the rest I have done various conversion on. 

I have also taken pics of my growing Iron Brigade units.

Have a merry Christmas happy new year. 

WIP Union artillery

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Mocking together some artillery teams, 3 deployed, 3 towed, I’m converting the airfix crews, except 1 of each pose for nostalgic reasons, I’ll put them all in the 1 gun crew, I also need to make the mounted and seated figures fit on their horses and limbers, a bit a carving will do the trick, horses, guns, limbers and most of the heads are 3D printed.

WIP 2nd Rhode Island infantry regiment

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WIP update of my 1/72 2nd Rhode Island infantry regt, they are about 60% done, I’m pretty happy with how they are turning out, I think I need another standard bearer. 

ACW artillery update and the Iron Brigade.

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Reworked the guns and Limber wheels, reduced their diameter to 57in at 1/72, which is 20.1mm, and made them skinnier, they look much better with the Airfix crew now.

I’ve also taken some pics of the 1/72 3D prints of the Iron Brigade I’ve been working on, I’ve printed about 50-60 of these, they are just the ones I’ve quickly cleaned the supports off to take the pics, these have been made from the wargames atlantic digital set, it’s pretty limited, 4 standing bodies in frock coat, 3 types of head gear, and various arms, it could really do with a command set, a kneeling body and marching bodies, I managed to create some kneeling and casualty poses by combing with some other sets, and I have created some drummers and standard bearers, I need to work on some officers next.