Perry Miniatures - 28mm - American Civil War Confederates

As you might recall my post back in December 2013 there already were 6 horses from the 12 painted and the cavallry for both sides from the figures done...

so here we go with the last missing 6 horses:

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Plastic/Metal: Plastic

Number of horses: 6

Perry Miniatures - 28mm ACW - American Civil War Cavallry

In case you noticed it ... the riders were finished way earlier... christmas brought time to solve the problem around the horses:

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Metal/Plastic: Plastic
Scale: 28mm

Number of Horses painted: 6 out of 12

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - ACW2 Plastic American Civil War Cavalry ( box of 12 figures)

Well if you cant get enougth of that kinda blue and blue shading, highlighting and brushing ... you can also finish the riders from that box. The horses are already glued to the bases and primed... so guess what follows next ???

I did all 12 by now.. depicting 6 Union Cavalry and 6 Confederate Cavalry. As I am currently not looking for another box which would be needed to fill up the ranks these 6 Cavalry per side should be enougth for a battlefield

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Number of Miniatures: 12 + (12 horses)

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - FN18 Foot Artillery loading 6 pounder

Talking about boredom earlier... well french normally do not sound like fun at all, but if you are painting up one gun you can also do your second one...:))



FN18 Foot Artillery loading 6 pounder

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Metal/Plastic : Metal

Number of Model:

4 Miniatures
1 Gun

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - FN17 Foot Artillery firing 6 pounder

Back to the "normal" schedule...

After selling off all my remaining british napoleonic line infantry (as I found it totally boring painting them) I finished my FN17 French Napoleonic Foot Artillery firing 6 pounder.

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Metal/Plastic : Metal

Number of Model:

4 Miniatures
1 Gun

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - FN55 Mounted and dismounted Staff officers (1 Ajutant-commander, 2 Adjoints)

I will use these as my artillery commanders for my french brigade.

They consist of:

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Plastic/Metal: Metal
Miniatures: 3 horses, 3 Miniatures

Perry Miniatures - Plastic French Husars (5th Husars) -Part 2

Perry Miniatures - Plastic French Husars (5th Husars)

 I finished the second half (thats 7) of the box from the fantastic Perry Miniatures Plastic Husars box.

Scale: 28mm
Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Metal/Plastic: Plastic


And down is a picture of all of them :)

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - Dutch Red Lancers (12 Pieces)

This is one of my most favourite Regiments by now. The dutch Red Lancers. I had quite a hard time finding out about the uniforms. Even Ospreys pictures depict them nearly black. Different blogs paint them quite blue and red...

I went for the Osprey variation. The "blue" is 1/3 intense blue by Vallejo mixed with 2/3 of Negro by Vallejo. This makes them seemingly black. If you hold them in the sun or would strip them off their colour it goes blue :)

Funny effect.

So here we go:

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Plastic/Metal: Metal
Scale : 28mm
Number in Unit: 12 pieces

Perry Miniatures - 28mm - 95th Rifles (12 Pieces)

Finally more time for painting this weekend. So I took out the two small looking black boxes sent to me from the Perry brothers a couple of weeks ago.

British Napoleonic, 95th Rifles

Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Scale: 28mm
Plastic/Metal: Metal
Number in Unit: 12 Pieces

Perry Miniatures - Plastic French Husars (5th Husars)

As to there I got the left overs from the previous post. I finished half (thats 7) of the box from the fantastic Perry Miniatures Plastic Husars box.

Scale: 28mm
Manufacturer: Perry Miniatures
Metal/Plastic: Plastic

33rd Elite Infantry Regiment de Linie (Napoleonics)

Everything comes in strange ways. My plan was to build up my Victrix Plastics and paint a new french regiment (possibly Middle Guard)....

Then I found my old boxes and some left overs... so I assembled 18 nice mixtured Plastics.

Left overs:

Victrix - Napoleonic French Line Regiment
Perry Miniatures Plastics - Husars (heads)

Scale: 28mm

19th Regiment de Linie - French Napoleonic Infantry - 24 Figures

This one also finished over the weekend.

28mm / Perry Miniatures (Plastic) / French Napoleonic Infantry - 19th Regiment de Linie

(in case someone notices.. in some cases I simply put on the flank infantry sabers)

Couple of words on painting

Nearly one year ago I started painting my own miniatures for playing wargames. Having done such a thing never before I used to learn painting by try and error and often find myself repainting my miniatures then I developed a new technic.


My miniature 28mm soldiers are mainly manufactured by the British companies Front Rank, Perry Miniatures and Victrix. I use Vallejo and Games Workshop paints for the figures and  for the horses.

Are my figures completely accurate? Well, although my philosophy is to get them as close to accurate as possible, there are limits imposed by the actual castings and the small amount of reference material I have available. But bear in mind that an infantry battalion of only 24 men is not accurate in itself, so other small errors pale into insignificance in comparison!
I don't actually get to use these figures in many wargames, but when I do, the rules I use are Black Powder.

My figures have not been specifically based for any set of rules, but instead use base-sizes that I find visually pleasing and leave room for any possibility arising. This means I do a one-to-one basing with 20mm x 20mm (single figure) for infantry and the fiting sizes for cavaly and artillery.

One last point - it is notoriously difficult to photograph the colour blue accurately. The colour of the uniform coats in the photographs on this site varies from picture to picture, and often looks much lighter than on the actual figures themselves. So please do not rush to email me to tell me my shade of blue is wrong!

Perry Miniatures (Plastics) - ACW Infantry Box

I found a bargain on ebay which allowed me to buy two boxes of Perry Miniatures Infantry (Plastics) for ACW.

Each box contains enough stuff to either build two small units of both sides or two units of one side (Reb or Union)... so with two boxes by hand I went on and did two units each. Unit size is 18 Figures per regiment as stated in the ruleset included.
To distinguish my units afterwards I did base them differently (round and square)...

Enjoy: