3mm Union Army - First Regiments

Sunday night I painted up an infantry regiment and artillery battery for my 3mm Union Army, Irish Brigade. I used a blue spray primer from Army Painter and based the models on cut vinyl floor tile 50mm x 40mm. Tonight I sat down to paint and flock the bases. I am not overly happy with how they turned out. The flock/paint had trouble adhering to the base. I've not encountered this before. Perhaps next time I should use a glue/paint mixture. Also it seems using the blue primer was a mistake. I think and others have posted that for this scale priming in black handles your highlighting.For now though they stand ready to serve their adopted country. The next regiment I paint will be primed black.

First 3mm Models for Colonial British Brigade/Division

Micro-scale wargaming continues to draw me in. Here are the first units for a British Colonial Army Brigade. Like the 3mm ACW regiment in my previous post these models too will see double service. On Earth and Mars. These particular models are WW1 French Infantry & WW2 Polish Cavalry. These models too will be primed and painted up either Saturday or Sunday evening. These soldiers are based on a 40mm x 30mm base.

First 3mm Regiment for the American Civil War

These models are from a sample pack of O8 minis from PicoArmor. I have several models left over but there were enough models in the pack to make this regiment. Either Saturday night or Sunday evening I will prime the models and paint them up as a Union regiment. This regiment will also see service in a fictitious campaign "Clockwork Civil War" inspired by Ken van Pelt's game that I played in at Recruits several years ago.

I have another sample pack I bought last year but have misplaced it. I am very happy with how the models turned out on the base, which by the way is 50mm frontage with a 40mm depth. My next order from PicoArmor I will try to include some more civil war models.

Reinforements from PicoArmor

The picture didn't turn out very well but here are my latest 3mm purchases from PicoArmor. These models will serve as both colonial warfare and steampunk forces. There is however one pack alone that will solely be used for historical American Civil War battles and Steampunk Clockwork Civil War battles. I am looking forward to basing and painting them up. I find as time goes on that I am more and more drawn to micro-scale wargaming.

I was inspired by the 2mm Colonial models over on Paul James' Steel On Sand blog and by Ken Van Pelt's 5mm Clockwork Armies on his Penny Whistle blog. Which if you check my history here you will see I've actually commanded his models in battle.