More "Old School" ACW

More Connoisseur Miniatures, this time a Union 12pdr Napoleon and 4 crew.

The painting style is still experimental, I seem to have forgotten a lot of the old techniques I used in my formative wargaming years! I have a battalion of Confederate infantry ready to go and will be trying out some washes and dry brushing techniques to see what "Gilder-esque" results I can achieve.

I have now bought some oil paints for the horses and was even eyeing up some Humbrol enamels but then remembered the smell of white spirit-OK when you are a kid yourself, but not when you have them!

Fixed!

Followed the advice, got rid of the Cookies, signed out and signed back in again and voila, I left a comment on Captain Richards blog!

Thanks to everyone who chipped in with the advice!

Hmmmm. Blogger.

I am having problems with Blogger. I cannot leave comments or follow new blogs I have found. At first I thought it was a problem with Internet Explorer 8.

However even with my old computer (with IE 7) I am still having problems. I have been able to leave comments with some of the "older" blogs, like Stryker's Hinton Hunt blog or Rafa's Liepzig blog but not with Captain Richards ACW blog for example. I go round and round, signing in again and again.

I would ask for advice, but you probably cannot leave comments either......

"Small Troop" Movement

You will notice that these figures are a bit bigger than my usual ACW offerings. For a number of reasons the Airfix ACW Project has moved over to my other "In The Grand Manner" blog (June will be quietish at Waterloo to Mons as a result).

However I will still be painting up ACW figures on this blog...using the classic Peter Gilder figures I have had knocking around for a while.

I have gone completely retro with the painting and basing style-I was very undecided on gloss vs matt varnish but as all of the classic Gilder ACW images I have are matt finished it was a no-brainer in the end.

These are Connoisseur figures, I have a number of matching rebel infantry and some classic Hinchliffe Union in the pipeline.