ACW Union limbers and ammo wagons finished.

 Hi guys

Limbers and wagons finished, the 4 outriders and 4 limbers riders are Airfix, the limbers, wagons and other limbers riders and wagon drivers are 3D printed, also pictured with the finished guns. 

ACW Union artillery finished

 Hi guys

For my first 2025 project, I managed to get the ACW Union guns finished, 2x 10pdr parrots, and a 12pdr Napoleon, I’ll finish the limbers/wagons and do another post tomorrow, guns are 3D printed, crew are converted/improved plastic Airfix figures.

Happy New Year

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Happy New Years, so I guess this is the time of year I start planning my hobby focus for the coming year, after many years of constantly jumping for one period and scale to another, never rely making any progress, 2 years ago I decided to dedicate all of 2023 to 1/72 WWII, and I stuck to it for 9-10 months, getting a lot completed, before getting distract by other periods/genres, I repeated that in 2024, with much the same results, I lasted about 10 months, so my discipline has been good, to a point, but I’m really enjoying the ACW stuff I’ve been doing this last month, and I’ve a hankering to get back into 1/72 Napoleonics, and to see what my 3D printer can do in that era, so, I’m thinking to expand my focus, but try and maintain the discipline, completing each batch before moving on, and doing a rotation between the 3, 1/72 WWII, ACW, and Napoleonics, which brings me to another thought.

I have been collecting wargaming/modelling stuff for a long time, I have most periods and genres in most scales, e.g WWII in 15mm, 1/72, 28mm, and 1/35, this is because, when I see a figure line I love I usually collect it, but I grew up on 1/72 plastic WWII and Napoleonics, and even though many of the other scales actually have better figures, I keep going back to 1/72, I can’t seem to get traction in any other scales despite owning whole ranges of figures, unfortunately this all takes up space, and I’m running out of space. It’s not in my nature to downsize my collection, so there’s much soul searching in my future, keep it? Store it? Or sell it off and make room for more 1/72? 

Here is my progress on the 1/72 ACW Union artillery, still a bit of work to do, especially on the horses, but it’s getting there. 

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.