American Civil War - Major General Pickett and other Commanders - 15mm

 Another batch of Confederate commanders have been painted up this week.  

Above and Below: Major General George Pickett, Bugler and Staff Officer 

All of the figures are from Blue Moon.  There is lots of detail on them to paint. One difficulty is making one self stop and not keep going back to improve details further.  

Above and Below:  Brigadier General Barksdale.  Not actually included in the Confederate Personalities set, this officer was in the Mounted Generals set, and reminded me of the paintings of Barksdale encouraging his men from horseback 

Below we have more Brigade Commanders with either Buglers or Staff Officers to create my standard 2 -figure Brigade Commander Stands.

I was working on three wargaming projects at the same time this week, this is normally a recipe to get nowhere at all!  However, all have made great progress.  I'm waiting on another order to arrive before I can finish one of them.  More will be revealed.

I have just one crazy purchase this week.  I was inspired by the brilliant 'Little Wars TV'  You Tube channel and their episode on Antietam.  Their game looked great fun.  It looked amazing to play an entire large battle on a table and the game was very closely fought.  So I have ordered their rules called 'Altar of Freedom' designed by Greg Wagman.  The craziest thing is that now I have got my 15mm ACW armies to that really playable stage (after over 25 years of  non-continuous effort!),  will probably require a 6mm or even 3mm army to get the troops all on the board!  

Ah well, I shall stick with my trusted 15mm figures for those slightly smaller actions and different rules like Fire and Fury as well as Black Powder.  I'm not getting rid of these15mm figures after so much effort!