tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post675005611128059129..comments2024-03-03T10:08:19.722-08:00Comments on Lead Doesn't Bleed: 3mm Confederate ACW Regiments for Black PowderThaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-10397951104451444532012-09-06T19:23:43.963-07:002012-09-06T19:23:43.963-07:00I thought about that, but had two concerns....
1)...I thought about that, but had two concerns....<br /><br />1) Obviously, I wouldn't be able to carve the frame's edges, so that might look strange;<br /><br />2) I'd have to cover and paint the foam and it's much easier to paint canvas! :)<br />Thaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-91849658530386117062012-09-06T10:44:21.060-07:002012-09-06T10:44:21.060-07:00Have you considered using the foam side up, and ca...Have you considered using the foam side up, and carving it down to make rolling terrain? I'm planning to do a little experimenting with that soon. A hot wire cutter would be a real useful too for that, too...<br /><br />--MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-60275168011475455562012-08-23T18:34:12.679-07:002012-08-23T18:34:12.679-07:00Dear Ben,
I've done everything from dioramas ...Dear Ben,<br /><br />I've done everything from dioramas to "throw a green cloth over some books" and I still haven't found the Holy Grail when it comes to terrain.<br /><br />When you're playing 3mm, you have another problem: keeping mobile terrain stuck to the board. Often, it's so light it get's moved about quite easily.<br /><br />Here's my solution: my terrain modules are painters' canvases, backed up with styrofoam. All the hills are painted and flocked cork.<br /><br />When I do a module, I only do roads, rivers and basic landforms (although some modules do have some more built-in terrain such as walls, fields and darker flocked areas for woods). I also take a bunch of stick-pins and glue coarse green flocking around them. <br /><br />When I do a terrain piece like those fences up there, I drill two or three holes in it. I then stick the pins through those holes and into the styrofoam backing behind the canvas. They look like bushes and hold the terrain feature in place.<br /><br />If things get too pricked up, I toos more glue and flocking over the holes.<br /><br />You can see the result in the second picture, here: http://leadnobleed.blogspot.com.br/search/label/Cold%20War%20Commander<br /><br />The forest base is a bit of painted and flocked cloth. It's pinned to the module with stick-pin bushes and has various bits of flocking (glued to coins and washers) tossed on top of it, which can be moved about, as necessary.Thaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-67196018843618394302012-08-23T18:25:43.192-07:002012-08-23T18:25:43.192-07:00Dear Dave,
The fences are from 08: they sell them...Dear Dave,<br /><br />The fences are from 08: they sell them by the pack. They're nice, if a bit expensive to use everywhere.<br /><br />For stone walls, I use wooden matchsticks covered with Vallejo sandy paste. I paint them dark grey and dry brush with a light grey.Thaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-6143915588607810322012-08-20T13:30:45.289-07:002012-08-20T13:30:45.289-07:00I've been thinking about a similar project exc...I've been thinking about a similar project except I'm going for a 1:1 ratio with each unit being a company. Like a lot of things right now I'm kinda stuck on basing, diorama style vs a more adaptable one like you're doing. Diorama would be each company in line on one base, adaptable would be about 30 or 32 figs a base also in line. In that way a standard company could get two stands and a large full strength company would get three.<br /><br />Like I said, I can't decide. :)Ben Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15824719452356386524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-26232634172220545382012-08-20T07:56:55.036-07:002012-08-20T07:56:55.036-07:00Very nice, what did you use for fencing? How woul...Very nice, what did you use for fencing? How would you recommend that I build my stone walls? I am in the process of building a 3mm Antietam board.<br /><br />Thank you in advance<br />DaveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-33021855311293357272012-08-19T18:19:31.758-07:002012-08-19T18:19:31.758-07:00Well I'll be damned. If that isn't precise...Well I'll be damned. If that isn't precisely targeted spam marketing, I don't know what is...<br /><br />I'm going to keep it up on the board simply because I admire its balls-to-the-wall audacity.Thaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-71379879702531167882012-08-09T13:43:58.257-07:002012-08-09T13:43:58.257-07:00very cool! nice find.. I have a set that came with...very cool! nice find.. I have a set that came with some real <a href="http://www.guns4usa.com/black-powder-bullets-c-42.html" rel="nofollow">black powder bullets</a> so I had to go try them out and it was pretty fun :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-75180000063833944432012-08-05T11:30:59.145-07:002012-08-05T11:30:59.145-07:00I figure I'm going to do the unit sizes this w...I figure I'm going to do the unit sizes this way: 5 is large, 4 is normal, 3 is small and 2 tiny. All the formations can still be done that way, except for small units and squares... and squares were quite rare on the ACW battlefield, anyhow. <br /><br />Tiny units can't do anything but skirmish, IIRC, so I'm OK there.<br /><br />I was going to do 6, but I thought it was rather overkill, given the two main goals of the project (low price and small game footprint). The 6 stand units really didn't look that much better and just took up more space.<br /><br />I have a Union brigade already based and just waiting for the flock. It's a "Western" brigade (with black hats) and has two three stand regiments, 2 four standers and a large 5 stand unit.Thaddeus Gregory Blanchettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09359423010378429288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4784390992211969614.post-64945643427402385572012-08-05T11:21:16.129-07:002012-08-05T11:21:16.129-07:00Looks nice. I have the Black Powder rules and may...Looks nice. I have the Black Powder rules and may use them for my 6mm stuff (I currently use Piquet: Field of Battle for my larger stuff - gives a wild game). My 6mm infantry is mounted on 20mx15mm bases<br /><br />One thing with Black Powder is that you might want to go with 6 bases per unit. This is because BP has Large, Small, and Tiny units in addition to the normal units. I can see this in the ACW as the regiment sizes were all over the map. Average regiments had about 350-450 men, but I have scenario booklets where a brand new unit could have 800 men while some units had under 200 men. I have some scenarios where a cavalry unit had only 80 men. So Large = 8 stands, Normal = 6 stands, Small = 4 stands, and Tiny = 2 standsDave Gamerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10009751148304427066noreply@blogger.com