Grey v Blue – resurrection of my 6mm ACW

Tidying up the figures

What I have realised is that the existing figures whilst nice need to have a bit of work done to the edges of the bases. Although I have two options here.

1. Use a dark colour like black or grey this will be rather stark but could look neat.
2. Used a brown or sand colour to blend the edge of the bases into the main colours on the base.

Just as a side note on one of my first visits to a boot camp at BoW HQ at River House I gave Lloyd a base of Union and base of Confederates along with a 6mm building.  Glad to see after many years OTT are finally realising just how good 6mm ACW is ?

In the beginning

About a decade ago I started on my American Civil War project. This was  6mm and was a result of picking up some figures from Baccus 6mm at Salute. However I never really did find a set of rules I liked.

Anyway I had grand visions of doing Gettysburg in its entirety in 6mm. This project went well I managed to get a largish Confederate army painted. I then moved onto the union and after about 6 bases of union troops the project stalled.

Roll on at least a decade 

So after a good long while later, I have been playing other games including Mortem et Gloriam, which is based on the CCC mechanisms ( coloured dice and cards). I have got involved in play testing a new set of ACW rules based on the CCC system. I have rekindled my interest in ACW. And seeing the discussion on 6mm ACW on the XLBS I thought I would put a project together to follow this continued journey.

Caveats

• This project is in addition to other things I am doing so may be added to slowly.
• The Rules I am playing are not yet in the public domain so I will share what I can when I can.