It's just an experiment OK! I happened across a video of DBACW the other day and it kind of piqued my interest as a potential painting project on the side. I had a couple of ACW Warlord Epic sprues here and thought how would they look if just painted and based as individual regiments, 20 figures per base? Slightly deeper MDF bases (60mm x 35mm) so the strips could be based with enough space between them to get the texture brush in comfortably without getting it all over the figures AND leave a 5mm strip along the rear to be able to attach printed unit labels. So I knocked this up yesterday evening and I like it.
Decided to keep everything slightly bright looking so those coats are Vallejo Flat Blue with a touch of Blue wash added when dry (I think you can see this on the kepis where I just touched a bit of wash into the centre). I did make a point of cutting all the hats down to kepis, a quick and easy task if doing just 2 strips at a time. I also broke with tradition and am going with matt varnish. To add to the look I will add 15mm scale printed flags which will be slightly tattered and holed in true Civil war style. The base I also kept bright and simple, Vallejo Earth texture highlighted buff and Javis fine turf as a change from static grass. All in all I'm rather pleased with the result and will doubtless have to paint some more, that's all I'm going to say at this stage :)
