This post completes my collection of Confederate generals. I now have three large command vignettes and five singly based generals. I don't think I'll be painting any more. It was nice to finish this part of my ACW project.
In addition to lots of photos I've added some comments on how I fared painting these figures. Later on, there's a comparison of the newly completed Peter Pig generals and those I finished two weeks ago from Warrior. Plus there's a few free flags at the end of the post.
Am I regressing to my youth as I approach retirement? I think I may be.
When I was in my early teens I was a keen modeller spending a large part of my pocket money on at least one Airfix kit a week. Of course I also had lots of the HO/OO plastic Airfix figures. I had both sides for the American Civil War (ACW) and the Western Desert in WWII.
In this somewhat long post I'm going to tackle the thorny issue of figure compatibility. But I'm going to start with a true wargamer's tale (read as "shaggy dog story") that ends with me owning and painting these figures:
Old Glory 15s Confederate infantry.
It's been over a year since I posted my first attempts at American Civil War generals using the excellent figures from Warrior Miniatures. Since then I've been slowly adding to my commandres and today I finished basing my Commander in Chief vignette:
For the central figure in the vignette I used the most imposing figure from AC36 (Union/Confederate Generals) and flanked him with the officer and standard bearer from AC35 (Confederate Cavalry Command).
