Ken: Over the years you have done a terrific job of depicting the Union in particular in a generic setting. Being a cavalry buff I would like to see specific units: Custer's Michigan Brigade with standard bearer (1st,5th,6th and 7th Michigan) early war orange braided 1st and 2nd US Dragoons, green braided 1st US Mounted Rifles, pre 1863 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry aka Rush's Lancers depicted with lances, perhaps some mounted or dismounted 3rd New Jersey Cavalry aka 1st US Hussars (Butterflies) with yellow braided hussar jackets and "bellhop" hats.
Over on the Rebel side I would like an addition of five or six dismounted 1st Virginia Cavalry troopers that augments your terrific Collectors Club figurine and supplements your earlier created mounted offerings. From their fast track to 1864 with generic rag tag looking mounted and dismounted Confederate cavalry armed with breach loaders, muzzle loaders both rifles and carbines, double barrelled shotguns and multiple horse pistols with plain grey and butternut jackets, procured blue trousers, (some bleached out) slouch hats and lots of stolen carbine slings and sabre belts from the Feds. Figure they can de depicted from Northern Virginia, Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry or even in the Trans Mississippi with Bedford Forrest and Joe Wheeler.Some depictions of well known cavalry colonels and brigadier generals would be welcome too. Lets not forget to look at the battles of 1864...the strategies and tactics and how they evolved along with the look of the troops. By then the mounted Rebs fought many an engagement dismounted so you have to depict the dismounted in fours with three deployed as sharpshooters and the fourth held back to hold the four mounts.
Over on the Rebel side I would like an addition of five or six dismounted 1st Virginia Cavalry troopers that augments your terrific Collectors Club figurine and supplements your earlier created mounted offerings. From their fast track to 1864 with generic rag tag looking mounted and dismounted Confederate cavalry armed with breach loaders, muzzle loaders both rifles and carbines, double barrelled shotguns and multiple horse pistols with plain grey and butternut jackets, procured blue trousers, (some bleached out) slouch hats and lots of stolen carbine slings and sabre belts from the Feds. Figure they can de depicted from Northern Virginia, Morgan's Kentucky Cavalry or even in the Trans Mississippi with Bedford Forrest and Joe Wheeler.Some depictions of well known cavalry colonels and brigadier generals would be welcome too. Lets not forget to look at the battles of 1864...the strategies and tactics and how they evolved along with the look of the troops. By then the mounted Rebs fought many an engagement dismounted so you have to depict the dismounted in fours with three deployed as sharpshooters and the fourth held back to hold the four mounts.
Ken
