Epic Battles: American Civil War Union Bundle

 I have started making a little progress on the American Civil War Union Bundle. This included an The Iron Brigade, A Zouave Brigade, a Cavalry Brigade and some casualty markers.

Some pictures of the casualty markers

The following are pictures of the Cavalry Brigade

As you can see this Brigade came with three Cavalry Regiments.

I have started on the Zouave Brigade. The following is my first stand.

A little different then painting two colours. Nice break.

Painted: 32

Total for 2021: 256

Working on:  ACW Union Bundle

Backlog: FOW German Puma Scout Troop, FOW German SD KFZ 7/1 Quad AA Platoon, Team Yankee Soviet 2S3 Acacia SP Platoon

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Epic Battles: American Civil War Starter Set

 I have been painting the Union portion of the American Civil War Starter Set since early April.

I have finally finished painted 12 Regiments, 12 Cannons, 12 Commanders, and General Meade.

My next challenge, is the Cavalry Brigade. Then I will be completing the Zouaves Regiments then the Iron Brigade.

Painted: 79

Total for 2021: 224

Working on:  ACW Union Bundle

Backlog: FOW German Puma Scout Troop, FOW German SD KFZ 7/1 Quad AA Platoon, Team Yankee Soviet 2S3 Acacia SP Platoon

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Painting American Civil War Epic Scale

I decided to get into the American Civil War Epic Scale. This scale is smaller than 15 mm, but bigger than 6 mm. I have no idea how the club is going to like the scale, but I think that it is pretty cool size. I asked Mike if he wanted to join me and he said yes. So I bought the American Civil War Starter Set. I than bought the Union Bundle and Mike bought the Confederate bundle. Not sure this was a great idea, but it is done.

Bernhard gave me some painting guides, so I decided to use this technique to paint the miniatures.

For the Union, I painted the entire uniform with Talassar Blue Contrast paint from Citadel, then I painted the jacket and hats with Talassar Blue with a little Black Templar contrast paint. 

This is the result:

I have 11 more regiments to paint from the starter set.

Painted: 7

Total for 2021: 145

Working on:  77 Union Stands from the ACW Epic battles starter set

Backlog: ACW Union bundle (not yet delivered)

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Paint Star Wars Legion (Part 2)

 I decided to continue painting some Star Wars Legion expansion troops prior to starting the American Civil War Epic troops. I bought the Republic AT-RT Unit expansion set, the Republic Specialists Personnel Expansions and the ARC Troopers Unit Expansion.

I continued using Sorastro's painting YouTube channel for the AR-RT unit. He had no videos for the other two expansion sets.

These are pictures of the AT-RT Unit

The Republic Specialists Personnel Expansion

ARC Troopers Unit

Painted: 12

Total for 2021: 138

Working on:  ACW Epic battles starter set

Backlog: ACW Union bundle (not yet delivered)

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Painting Star Wars Legions

 Mike bought a Cone Wars Cores Set. The box came with the following

• 39 unpainted and highly detailed miniatures give you the building blocks you need to begin assembling your Galactic Republic or Separatist Alliance armies.
• Obi-Wan Kenobi and General Grievous each pose with lightsabers at the ready, prepared to lead their troops into battle and show off their skills in combat. Both these miniatures are exclusive to the Clone Wars Core Set.
• Two sqauds of Phase I Clone Troops enter the fight to preserve the Republic. Five carry the DC-15A blaster rifle while two heavy weapons specialists add extra firepower with a Z-6 rotary blaster cannon and a DC-15 blaster rifle modified to fire from long range.
• A BARC Speeder miniature gives your Clone Troopers some much-needed speed as they look to outmaneuver the Separatist's battle droids and can be assembled with or without its sidecar. Those who include the sidecar can further customize their speeder with a twin laser gunner, an RPS-6 gunner, or an ion gunner.
• Two squads of B1 Battle Droids are ready to crush any resistance with sheer weight of numbers. Seven are armed with E-5 blaster rifles, while two heavy weapons specialists bring either an E-5C blaster rifle or an E-60R missile launcher.
• One unit of two Droidekas is ready to speed into battle in wheel mode. Once there, the wheel mode miniatures can be replaced by two Droideka miniatures ready to lay down heavy fire on targets the B1 Battle Droids cannot take care of. 

Mike gave me the two squads of clone troops, Obi-Wan Kenobi and the BARC Speeder to paint.

This is a picture of  the force

I found my inspiration from Sorastro's painting YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lPagaNa88&t=7s

Apparently he has 100k followers. I find that he uses many highlights and many weathering technics. He mixes a lot of paints to get the correct colour. So it is a lot of work.

Here are some closeups

Painted: 16

Total for 2021: 126

Working on:  ACW Epic battles starter set (not yet delivered)

Backlog: ACW Union bundle (not yet delivered)

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Painting US late war (Flames of war) part 3

This is the latest paint job for Francis. A third platoon of US Infantry. They were in pewter vice plastics, so a little harder to paint. Lots of cleaning prior to painting. On the plus side, they had different poses. 

Painted: 14

Total for 2021: 110

Working on: Star Wars Legion

Backlog: ACW Epic battles starter set and Union bundle

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392

Painting US late war (Flames of war) part 2

 I have continued to paint some late war US units for Francis. He gave me a box of Devil's Charge and a additional platoon of US infantry.

The box of Devil's Charge included one easy eight objective Marker, one Chaffee Objective Marker, twelve M24 Chaffees, four M36 Jacksons, two M20 Scout Cars, and one reconnaissance jeep.

Easy Eight Objective Marker

Chaffee Objective Marker

M24 Chaffee

M36 Jackson

Jeep

M20 Scout Car

M36 team

Painted: 21

Total for 2021: 96

Working on: US Infantry

Backlog: Star Wars

Total for 2020: 437
Total for 2019: 299
Total for 2018: 375
Total for 2017: 392