3rd North Carolina Volunteers

[Peter]

Hi,

I tried something unconventional for the appearance of this new Confederate unit.
Some of the units raised by the Southern States were clothed with their own State uniforms, which sometimes were quite different from the traditional grey that we have in mind when thinking about how a confederate soldier should look like.

I found references of at least three different regiments wearing a version of the US Army M1839 forage cap, with grey jacket, butternut trousers and white webbing for NCO’s and officers: the Arkansas volunteers, the North Caroline volunteers and 9th Kentucky Infantry (Logan’s Grays). I picked the 3th North Caroline because the flag was nice, different and easy to paint.

I didn’t wanted to paint all the same, so I mixed them with some figures wearing a more traditional aspect; but trying to keep the unusual look for the whole unit, I’ve painted some of the kepi’s in light blue (like the Confederate infantry parade uniform).

Figures are from Imex, Acta, Revell and Esci Confederate Infantry set, plus Imex Alamo defenders and Mexican-US war American Infantry.

I hope you like them and many thanks for stopping by…

[Kostis Ornerakis]

Wonderful work as usually!

[tom s]

the imex alamo and mexican american sets are very versatile.the american regulars fit right into early civil war period,as your painting has excellently shown.

[santifernandez]

Your works and photographs are a delight to always see.
Santi.

[Kekso]

You made me interested for ACW. Because of some of your recent work I bought box of Italeri Union cavalry. Great work, as usual from you.

[Peter]

I like it how you mixed those Imex sets with some regular ones, like Revell and Esci. It makes a great unit! Wonderfull as allways Joan!

[Susofrick]

Wonderful! Agree with tom s! The only thing I don't like is some of the bigheads from Italeri. But the rest is totally loveable!

[C M Dodson]

Nice painting and a lovely mix of figures to give an impressive looking unit.

Best wishes,

Chris

[Gowan]

awesome stuff. I really like the mixed infantry. Looks very cool while also retaining a sense of uniformity. Far more interesting than everyone being painted exactly is regulation uniform with identical equipment. This unit has some life to it.

[despertaferro]

Thank you very much for your time and nice words.

Now I'm working on the Union Infantry.

[Cryns]

Well done. I agree with others the mixture of uniforms and outfits makes this very realistic and lively. We should see such varied units more often, also in other periods, especially in Napoleonic armies. I hope more painters and collectors leave the 'parade uniform styled units' and use your work as an example.

[Carlos]

Very well painted figures, good work Despertaferro

[davbenbak1]

Thanks for posting. I'd considered getting some forage cap clad figures for my own ACW collection.

[sansovino]

A nice work, I like it ...

[Bluefalchion]

Very well conceived and executed ACW Confederate troops! I will agree with the others, very nice job of mixing figures from different manufacturers.

[despertaferro]

Thank you very much for your time!

Normally I'm jumping for one subject to another, but looks like I'm getting stuck on this ACW subject...

The fact is that I like very much these non too uniformed armies

[fpt]

I would like to see your photos, but PhotoBucket seems to be disabled. Is there another way to view them? Regards. FPT

[Susofrick]

This can help with seeing pictures from Photobucket. At least it helped me. http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=20819

[Peter]

I would like to see your photos, but PhotoBucket seems to be disabled. Is there another way to view them? Regards. FPT

Pictures are fixed!

[fpt]

Thank you. Very well painted. It was nice to see how well the U.S. Mexican War figures fit into the project.

Regards.

FPT