painting for Gettysburg forces begins

 The cleaning and sorting progress has been done for 'day 1' forces of Gettysburg.

I will need to make more artillery - particularly the bigger Union guns, and I have enough to do day 1 in hand now.

Same with the horses, likely more will be needed for Division and "E" brigade commands.

For now, I can get on with the painting.

I have decided to start with the Union Cavalry, as they were busy right away on the field.  This will also give me something interesting to start with the painting as I will need to be ready to shut down quickly if the house move becomes highest priority.

horse casualties, made from miscasts of horses
and kepi wearing casualties

In the meantime, I may also look into doing a tabletop solo encounter.

Slow & Steady

 There's a saying of "slow and steady wins the race".

Certainly most of my activities around here could be summed up as slow.

Save perhaps for any of the fire or rescue calls that I need to respond to.

The ACW project has been inventoried, with the bulk of the cleaning from the castings now done.

the flow channels and some unusable
broken minis in the pile for re-melting

I have most of what was needed, likely I will need another dozen artillery pieces (or even more wheels for the 48 total guns) and possibly another dozen or so horses for Union Cavalry (depending on the cleaning progress on the horses I do have).

The itch to get some game activity in has been continuing, especially with all the packing and moving to storage some of our items and boxes as we continue to prepare for a move.

I am still working out another ACW campaign setup, likely for the Shenandoah Valley campaign of 1862, so if there is interest in connecting to this game, log into the DISCORD SERVER.