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The War Betwixt the Yankees and the Americans
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About the Project
My foray into 6mm, after probably a year of umming and ahhing I decided to jump in and grab some 6mm ACW
Related Genre: Historical
This Project is Active
Finishing up the Armies.
I needed a few more bases of 6mm ACW to do Antietam for Altar of Freedom. Unfortunately Irregular Miniatures doesn't do their 6mm range anymore and it looks like it's gone for the foreseable future. I went through my collection and found some Napoleonic Russian Militia in caps which work well enough in this scale. I've got another 10ish bases of each side to go.
The first half of the new Union forces. All of these infantry are actually Irregular 6mm Russian Militia but they work just as well for Union troops.
The Commanders are a mix of ACW, Napoleonic and Franco Prussian but they all work at this scale
I was one stand short so decided to make a Brigade under fire.
USS Monitor. Not really sure when I got this but it will work if I ever need to do a battle with naval support
I painted these three or four years ago but I'm only just getting around to putting them on bases. Always good fun to have a Zouave Brigade or two lying around.
Roads and Rivers
I don’t have a lot of space, tools or ability to make a mess nowadays so I couldn’t go down the silicone/caulk route so I went for the next best thing.
These are the kind of roads I'm referring to. Also note the giant trees, hence 2mm terrain.
All paddle pop sticks with sand. Sure they'll warp over time because I forgot to spray them with Rustollem but for home games they'll be fine
Bases included for scale
Since I'm doing size comparisonsMore 2mm Terrain
A small town or village
A village/small town with a manor
A Catholic Church
Some cottages and a farm
A Manor and Cottages. These are all meant to be dual purpose European/American
Some cottages and a Church. Something a bit annoying is that every single village base comes with a Church 
A small farm in the woods
A farm with crops
A large wooded area with a small village. In game the village probably wouldn't matter and this would just be woods
A Manor with Crops
A small village and crops
The Brown patches were later flocked with a very light brown flock. For 2mm it does the job as crops. I'll post the DIY Roads and River next and then some DIY crops.Confederate Characters
I needed an overall command base for both armies and since I'm finishing off the Confederates right now I thought I'd do them first
This will represent the overall Army Commander.
This base will double as a 2iC or just a normal Officer
Most of these minis aren't ACW they're other 19th Century minis like French or British
Each side is getting a set of nurses, not sure if these will be useful but they took less than 5 minutes to paint and cost less than $2.50 and they'll look good on the shelf at leastBack for More
After a bit of a break I decided to bump up my ACW collection a bit with another few Brigades each to let me do the bigger scenarios.
As usual all the minis are 6mm Irregular Miniatures from Eureka here in Australia.
Six Brigades of Confederates ready to base, I'll probably do another 2 Infantry and one Dismounted Cavalry bases
I also did a lot of 2mm Terrain that I’ll post soon. The plan is to set up a table and see how it all looks
Finished the Army for Now
I decided to finally upload these pics and wrap the project up for now.
Two forces done, 20ish Infantry, 8 Cavalry and 10+ Guns per side all painted and base.
I’m glad I picked the ACW for my first go at ACW, I wanted to compare uniforms v no uniforms to see what was more fun to paint and what looked better.
For me it’s definitely uniforms and my next project in 6mm will be Napoleonics most likely Peninsular just because it’s what I know.
Massive thanks to everyone for their support and for all the help.
Federal Cavalry Ready to Base
Federal Cavalry Finished
The Complete Federal Force with HQ
Federal Wagons with Guards Escorting POW's 
Confederates Minus the Cavalry
Confederate Cavalry
Berdan's Sharpshooters in the Front
If you look REALLY HARD you can see the Flag of Éire on the two Irish Stands
I decided since the game was so large scale I would try out 2mm Terrain and I like the effect in this scale, also the price is incredible, all of the stuff in this Project cost me about $30
The Tree's are on 60mm Bases
This was actually a 60mm Resin Scenic base given to me by my good friend who runs Zorpa Zorp Gaming here in OZ (Store and YouTube Channel). He sent it to my as part of a make good after he stripped, repainted and gave away a mini I lent him on a livestream. Very funny storyThe 6mm Army So Far
As it stands now I’ve got 20 Infantry Stands, 8 Commander Stands, 4 Artillery with Limbers, 4 Bases of Cavalry with 2 Cavalry Command Bases and a HQ Tent.
I’ve got another 4 Bases of Cavalry to do along with 5 Stands of Dug in Guns to do.
The only major thing I still need to get is a HQ Stand to represent the overall army commander, a few runners, some officers on foot that sort of thing.
Infantry or Dismounted Cavalry, basically I had a spare stand of Cavalry and a few sets of Skirmishers that were painted and left over
So Far
Some Stands have a proper Flag Command and some are just a Mounted Officer
First Army Box Done
Here’s the first army pack painted and based. The raw sand bases are the infantry component of the second army pack ready to be washed and based.
I’m really enjoying painting and basing this 6mm stuff, I managed to get about 8 Battalions of Infantry done in a few hours which I’m pretty happy with.
Once I finish the Confederates I’ll start on the Union, I want to get all the chaos and varied uniforms out of the way before I start on the uniformed look.
