American Civil War - The Regiment from country roads West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River

I’ve been considering the historical context of the regiments I am building. Bull Run which I have an interest in is out as I don’t think my colour scheme entirely suits the Confederates during the first year. I also wanted to have Jackson and the Stonewall Brigade, Shenandoah was a possibility and Chancellorsville sounded interesting but I had read the Bernard Cornwell Civil War series and he did a really good job of showing the desperate violence of the fighting on Lee’s left flank at the cornfields and Dunkers church.

After a bit of research it was settled and I am themeing my units on the brigades that fought under Jackson on the left flank, of the Army of North Virginia during the battle of Antietam. Jackson will be my General and I’ll have a brigade of Virginians, Hoods brigade of Texans and Jeb Stuarts Cavalry. and there will still be room for extending. One caveate is I will unlikely be able to match brigades regiment for regiment and will choose 2-4 from each.

I intend to give an army painter strong tone wash (from the dropper not the dip) all over the remaining minis and use it to wash the areas I fixed the paint job on while highlighting. I don’t intend to add highlights to the command units as I don’t think it is worth the time spent. I’d be better starting a new batch of greys.

I’ll post these at some point along with the finished article. I will being bring this to completion so that will include a basing scheme (probably the one I used for my AoS Sylvaneth project – check it out – but with static grass instead of clumps). I have been storing an idea I had a couple years ago about using the flower tufts to differentiate units, so I may colour code my brigades.