4th North Carolina Infantry at Mrs. Alsop's House - May 19, 1864

I started work on figure number two this morning.  He has a long way to go too but this should give you an idea of his uniform combination.

rb

Outstanding work. But aren't they a little clean for Johnny Rebs? I read in your post that they have a long way to go, it can't be that far, they're looking good.

Looking quite good so far. You might want to tone down the sky blue on the canteen and trousers. The color was more of a gray blue. Andrea's old Union bkue is spot on and MM WWII naval color intermediate blue #4744 is very close, too. (I did ACW reenacting for four years and checked those colors against my uniform.)

Actually AJ, that color for the canteen is pretty decent. I do reenacting and my canteen cover is pretty much the same  just a little darker.  Sky blue covers were common as captured Federal gear.    I have seen a bit of everything out on the field though.

BigDuke634 wrote:

Actually AJ, that color for the canteen is pretty decent. I do reenacting and my canteen cover is pretty much the same  just a little darker.  Sky blue covers were common as captured Federal gear.    I have seen a bit of everything out on the field though.

Yeah I've seen lots of different shades of "Yankee" britches too.  I will lighten these some more during the ongoing shading process but they wont be as light as the powder blue lots of older movies want to put a soldier of that time in.  Like I said initially, far from done yet.

rb