Miniatures 3rd Iowa Cavalry

[FPT]

Attached are photos of a small vignette of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry. Figures are 22MM Musket Miniatures and I made the flag.

 

[3rd North Carolina]

very cool

 

[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy. Very nice

 

[Booner]

Attached are photos of a small vignette of the 3rd Iowa Cavalry. Figures are 22MM Musket Miniatures and I made the flag.

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Welcome to the forum. Nice work, especially on the flag. Why the 3rd Iowa?

 

[Pat Answer]

Very nice and the flag detail is most impressive!
Welcome to CWT and to our "little wars" forum. Please make yourself at home!

 

[FPT]

Welcome to the forum. Nice work, especially on the flag. Why the 3rd Iowa?

No particular reason. I have made many battle flags from numerous States and I wanted to do this scene recognizing a unit that had a good role in the Western theater. I have attached a few more photos of color bearers.

Nos. 1 & 2 22nd Mississippi Infantry, Company E, Liberty Guards, 1862 (obverse & reverse).
No. 3 6th Arkansas Infantry (post Perryville).
No. 4 6th South Carolina Infantry (1862).
No. 5 8th Virginia Infantry (1863).
No. 6 6th Wisconsin Infantry (1861)

 

[donna]

Great miniatures.

 

[Ethan S.]

Excellent photos and great detail!

 

[Booner]

I'm pretty impressed. Are all of them 22mm? Even if they are 54 mm how in the world do you get your states and lettering in scale?
When doing stars, I cheat. I use a copy machine and reduce the stars down to the size I want then cut them out and glue them on to the flag. I tell myself they look sewn on when I do it that way.

I was wondering if you had an ancestorial reason for doing the 3rd Iowa.

 

[GwilymT]

This is some great work! Welcome to the forums from the Secession Forums!

 

[FPT]

I'm pretty impressed. Are all of them 22mm? Even if they are 54 mm how in the world do you get your states and lettering in scale?
When doing stars, I cheat. I use a copy machine and reduce the stars down to the size I want then cut them out and glue them on to the flag. I tell myself they look sewn on when I do it that way.

I was wondering if you had an ancestorial reason for doing the 3rd Iowa.

No reason for the 3rd Iowa. Just wanted to have something representing the Western theater (Note: I assume that most of my relatives were still in Ireland or Germany during the ACW.

With a couple of minor exceptions, all of my "stuff is 20MM (the old K&L /Thomas) 22MM Musket Miniatures or "HO" plastics (Strelets is now producing pretty good ACW figures).

The flags are a labor of love and can be very tedious. Occasionally I will cheat too, but I try to make them as historically accurate as possible based on the resources available (it is interesting how the dimensions of a flag can vary depending on who is doing the measuring).