Wednesday 1 March 2017

Airfix ACW Wargaming - "Jayhawkers"

Union "Jayhawkers" as an addition  alongside the regular cavalry.
This lot are supposed to be the  7th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, aka "Jennison's Jayhawkers", which had William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody among it´s ranks.
I couldn´t find a specific flag for the Regiment so went for a generic pennon.
The "uniforms" they are wearing.  In an attempt to make them look a bit less like a bunch of Cowboys,  I´ve added as much  Union blue as possible and given them all  trousers with  yellow stripe. Red Shirts. I don´t know where I got that one..Hollywood film maybe?
The nags come from the Artillery set, the Cowboys set and the ones with docked tails, from the Indians set.
Usual head swops, Sabres and sheaths added using Staples.
 

13 comments:

  1. I think only Officers and NCO's had the yellow trouser stripe.

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  2. Probably correct, but this lot are "irregulars"..my excuse is they´ve nicked the trousers to go with the red shiarts ;-) and they are painted Old School style.

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  3. Great and inspiring work there.
    Alan

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  4. As a former Jayhawk from the University of Kansas: "Rock Chalk Jayhawk!"

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  5. Lovely job Paul and I do love to see the 'before' shots, it is always interesting to know what you did.

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  6. It's a real success, congratulations!

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  7. Great conversions as usual, Paul ! I like them a lot.
    It so reminds me of the Britains minis...

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    1. Thanks Phil.The britians look is what I was aiming for :-)

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  8. Great stuff once again Paul your conversions work very well.

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  9. Looking forward to the first action with these wonderful figures. Bob

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    1. Thanks Bob. So far the Project is running to plan, that is, that the painting, scenery etc should be finished by the end of march. I could have got the 4 regs of Union finished by now if I hadn´t gone and added two more guns plus limbers and the irregular cavalry.

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