ACW Union Infantry (IV). Shoes and leather parts

Shoes, cartridge packs, belts and bags and kepi's peaks are painte in valleho black and flat earth.

ACW Union infantry (III). Flesh and pants

After undercoating the miniatures, faces, hands and pants are painted using vallejo Basic skintone and vallejo sky blue.

ACW Union infantry (II). Texture on the base and undercoat.

After mounting the miniatures I added sand to the bases and undercoated them using The Army Painter Ultramarine blue spray. Now I only need to paint them...

The black primmed miniatures are the cannon and some samurais for a boardgame.

ACW Union infantry (I). Mounted and based.

My new project keeps going. In my birthday I received a brigade of Perry miniatures consisting in three boxes of plastic infantry, two guns and a general. Since this will be done in conjuction with my friend Francesc, My company for Terrible Sharp Sword will have 1 box and a half and a gun.

Here I post the beginning with the items received and the miniatures mounted and glued onto bases (from Renedra). They will be part of a ficticious regiment: XXXI Pennsylvania Volonteers. 31 because is my age and PA vols because I lived one year in central PA and I liked the place and the people there.

I will try to do as mister DeanM of WAB corner and paint them as a lot but I think I won't be that fast.

Feliç 2012

Benvolguts companys,

Us desitjo a tots un feliç 2012. No deixeu de pintar, penseu que durant aquest any que comença celebrarem el bicentenari de la campanya de Rússia, el de la batalla de los Arapiles i el 150 aniversari de la Guerra Civil Americana entre molts altres events.

A disfrutar-lo

Oriol

XLIII on foot

One of the best experiences in my life occurred while I was living in Pennsylvania. I met a gentleman who invited me to his reenactent group, The 43rd on foot and I took part in the Battle of Germantown 2010 refight. I'm not new in reenactment. I take the role of a roman soldier every year in Tarragona but being in a line formation with more people firing blackpowder volleys was amazing!. You can feel the adrenaline rush inside your body and start guessing how could be in a real battle. I felt biting the cartridge, reloading and firing at the NCO orders as an automat. Trully it was awesome.

I post some pictures of the event. By the way, the redcoat with Union Jack of 43rd regiment at his back its me.


As a bonus, I post the painted 1/72 regiment prepared to assault Bunker Hill. Miniatures from ACTA (one of the best sets ever), painting with Vallejo and army painter and based to play "British Grenadier". Flags from "Flags for the Lads".

WSS French Dragoons

Following with the Barcelona 1714 project, I've converted some miniatures to create an unit of french dragoons. It seems that there where a Dragoon regiment in the Bourbon Left wing under the command of De Cilly. It comprised 300 troopers and took part in the last assault to the city forming in the third wave.
Little is known about this unit. It was called dragoons de Rochefort but not the uniform nor the flag are known so following the help of my catalan wargame fellows: I painted them red and blue and gave them the flag that can be downloaded from this site.

http://desperta-ferro-ed.blogspot.com/

The conversion is an easy one using green stuff to model the hat. Nevertheless is may firts conversion and I'm quite happy with them. The original miniatures are GNW Russian Dragoons from Zvezda. Being a dragoon unit, it can fight both mounted or dismounted.