Hi friends, many thanks for your nice and encouraging comments...
I feel really sorry because I had no time to add any text when posting the pictures, but I did it in my lunch break and I had to go back to work.
Susofrick is right, and the only missing sets are the old Airfix. Funny enough, the ACW Airfix sets were the first figures I’ve painted on my life, back on the early 70’s... I remember a shelf on my kid’s room fully devoted to an ACW battle, with not only the Airfix ACW sets, but with some WW2 Japanese and Australians, French Foreign Legion and WW1 Americans painted accordingly, in grey or blue, to increase the variety.
So, the figures used here are from ACTA, ESCI, IMEX, Italeri and Revell. At this moment, I’m painting a Confederate volunteers unit that includes two more sets that I think are perfectly usable for ACW (we’re talking 1/72 scale…
) but I’ve not seen them painted this way before. You’ll find out soon if I’m making a big mistake or not…
C M DODSON, yes you’re absolutely right: the ACTA figures are too small (but not as small as some of the Union figures, totally unusable). I’ve supplemented their bases to make heads almost levelled with the other figures and mixed them with the appropriate poses in order to hide their real size.
Zed1, you`re right: wrong drum and flag sizes are a repeated problem on most of 1/72 sets. Flags maybe difficult to make big enough on plastic, but drums…
But I’m too lazy to replace them…
Konrad and Peter…
Many thanks to all of you for your time…