I thought this part of the project was going to be easy. However, who knew the controversy surrounding the base colours of the Guns and the Limbers. Do I go with the regulations, considered opinions of wargamers or the national parks services?

A brief spurt of activity meant that I wanted to return to the initial ACW painting project and finish it. needed to add some final details and tidy up the figures so I could call them done.

After my Easter break which also included my birthday and a rather unhealthy chest infection, I returned to the project and carried on painting. 

Just got back after my latest distraction of writing some content, rules and a scenario to do some more painting. So back to the ACW for the second part of my work on the 15mm figures of my latest project. Hooray, I hear you shout!

Starting a painting process is always difficult, it’s like being at the bottom of a hill and looking up to the top.  When you know there is a pub just along the road, but we all have to start somewhere.

I have been buying 15mm American Civil War troops and plan to create a set of rules for Wargamer Collection Calculator that will back up my claim that it is all about the base sizes and not the amount of figures on them that counts when it comes to creating an exciting game.