Renegade 28mm Confederate Infantry

Good day:

 

I hope his finds you and yours well, healthy, and weathering the pandemic.   I’m pleased to say that I’ve used the lockdown time to be fairly productive.  Last night I finished this regiment of Confederate infanry, 28mm figs from Renegade in skirmish/firing poses.  Sadly I believe that Renegade is out of business.   I bough a box of these figures at HotLead many years ago, started painting them, life got messy, and put the on hold.  The minis got knocked around badly during several moves, and I lost the nerve to get them finished until recently.

The flag is a Mississipi state flag from GMB Designs.   I chose Mississippi as a homage to my late wife Kay, aka Madame Padre, who was a born and raised there.  I already have two MS regiments, so this this regiment gives me a third, enough to form a brigade, which is important if I want to play more Pickett’s Charge.

See if you can spot the one Old Glory figure in this group.

The figures are definitely on the large side, perhaps the largest range of ACW figures I’ve ever seen, and there solidity reminds me of Dixon figures.   I always find that Confederate figures are a bit of a slog to mix, as I try for a convincing mix of greys, tans and browns in my uniform palette.

Thanks for looking and blessings to your brushes!    Stay well and safe.

MP+

Saturday Painting Desk

This last week a smelly bunch of 28 Rebs have been camped on the painting desk.  They’re lucky to get 30 minutes attention a day, since it’s all thesis all the time until the end of February.  The four in a firing pose are Renegade, the first I’ve ever painted, and much fun.  The rest are from the eccentrically sculpted, very hit or miss Old Glory ACW range, not my favourite, even though they do grow on me after a while.  Lots more rebs to go after these ones.   Each figure gets a slightly different colour scheme, which means a fairly slow rate of progress, but I like the motley look that results.

Blessings to your brushes!

MP+

Last Figures of 2012: Confederate Officer (1 of 3)

Another hat-waving "harmless personage" as Sam Watkins of Co. "Aytch" would say. This Renegade Miniatures Confederate officer is another hat-waver, either leading his men from the front, or, in my opinion, waving them off from behind before he returns to his mint juleps to await news of the attack.

Most of my ACW collection is based in group stands, a legacy of my time using Johnny Reb rules, but this fellow is indiviually based to fill a need for Confederate Big Men for the TFL Terrible Sharp Sword skirmish rules, which I've become quite fond of.

Now I have a decision as to what to do with the rest of his peers, still in the Renegade Rebel Skirmish box. They are nice sculpts, and I am inclined to base them individually as well for TSS. I can always get a box of those new Perry Brothers plastic rebel infantry to flesh out my rebel units for bigger battles.

If you're wondering what that light ochre colour is on his boots, coat and hat, I was experimenting with some Vallejo pigment for the first time, to see if I could get a mud spattered look. I'm not sure it was a success. I could have been more successful just drybrushing a yellow ochre onto him, I think.

I'm happy with the face. There is something a little roguish about him. He kind of reminds me of Don Johnson's planter character in Django, which Mrs. Padre and I saw last night, and of which my mind is quite divided.

I'm pretty sure we'll see him hat-waving his boys to death or glory pretty soon. Thanks for looking, y'all.