American Civil War - The Regiment from country roads West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Gather yer paints
Starting the ACW war I knew the colour scheme would need careful thinking. I wanted a mid war confederate army, perhaps Chancellorsville or Antietam as I wanted to focus on Jacksons forces to begin with.
To create the desired effect I needed a mix of butternutish browns, greys, blues and more “civilian” colours. I’ve added the paints I used below, roughly there is two shades of grey, brown, green, blue and then a red and tan colour.
After research I quickly realised like most periods the uniforms are not so uniform and there is every variation of shade under the sun. I then decided I was refusing to buy more paints as I have dozens of earthy browns and greens etc. so gathered all my paints and made my choices. The one thing I feel I am missing is a bluer grey so I might use GW spacewolf grey for this (don’t think thats what its called but it’s got wolf or fang in the name, you know the one).
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