Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Confederate Marines


The last remnants of 2019 projects are leaving my table this week, first up a rebase and touch up of some Confederate Marines that suffered during our move from Australia to France. Basically highlighted and touched up the scratches and dings and re-flocked the base.

The figures are from the first corps range and are the only 28mm confederate marines I know of on the market. They were originally built for our clubs Atlanta campaigns.

A rare unit, as they mostly only acted in companies, serving the the ships and gunboats with the Navy. But they served on land was along with ex ship crews at the siege of Atlanta, they were formed into a unit and manned Fort Ogeechee, manning the guns and defending the bastions until the Atlantas surrender. The other battles that they served on land include Fort Fischer and at Drewy's Bluff after the scuttling of the Viginia-Merrimac. The last battle they served in was at Saylors creek, a battalion was formed with ex naval personnel and marines defending the James River fortifications.

The flag references a 1861 company flag, as I am unaware of any marine unit or dismounted ship crew ever carrying a flag on land and is hand painted. These chaps will join the sale of my ACW collection in the coming months.



Cheers
Matt

ref Marine Corps Gazette, June 1978 Col T.J Saxon

12 comments:

Jonathan Freitag said...

This is a unit I have never seen before.

Bluewillow said...

Yes a rare unit, mostly only acted in companies, serving the the ships with the Navy. But did serve on land was along with ex ship crews at the siege of Atlanta, they were formed into a unit and manned a fort at Ogeechee, manning the guns and defending the bastions. The other battles that they served on land include Fort Fischer and at Drewy's Bluff.

DeanM said...

Same as Jonathan - never seen this type of troops before. Very cool - nice touch up.

Bluewillow said...

cheers Dean, a quite unusual unit. They performed valiantly in our games, I even have a gun crew serving a foot gun I will look for a image and post it up.

Michael Awdry said...

These are a bit different, nicely done Sir.

Cyrus said...

Excellent marines Matt, 1st Corps do have some unusual ranges.

Bluewillow said...

Cheers thanks Michael

Bluewillow said...

Thanks Mick, they were pretty good when they were released but looking very aged now like all of us

Cheers
Matt

Michal DwarfCrypt said...

Fantastic miniatures sir!

Bluewillow said...

Thanks Michal

Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

Nice looking marines.

Christopher

Bluewillow said...

Cheers Christoper much appreciated