My final Union Regiment and thank heavens.

So these are my final Union regiment hopefully. I picked them up from E Bay and touched up bits of them. They are Connoisseur figures and I somehow feel it fitting that Peter Gilder should be responsible for this final unit. If I had been financially able I would have used only Connoisseur figures but they are simply out of my budget. I had to sneak in a Steve Barber drummer to make up the unit but he looks okay.

Gilder clearly lavished some love on the sculpts for this range. I have a couple of his zouaves that encapsulate the ethos behind the regiments. I was looking at an image the other night from Miniature Wargames where there is a beautiful unit of Union zoauves that had been owned by Gilder. In my eyes they were perfect.

So on my table at the moment are a couple of Mini Fig and Garrison ECW units and some lovely Crann Tara Fischer light troops.  All are lovely figures but in different ways. Its very noticeable the number of wargamers who have rediscovered the beauty of Mini Figs and Garrison figures recently. Its great that they are going through a revival. So is a nostalgia thing or something else?

I plump for nostalgia which is natural in these troubled times. There is something very reassuring about using figures that are from an era when all was safe, summers were long and hot and I could fit into 32'' jeans. God that was a very long time ago. So stay safe and keep painting.