Hi all and Thanks for looking,

I am currently using the Baccus 6mm ACW figures to build both armies for the ACW.  I started planning/painting a year ago, and with delays due to other projects and real life, I am finaly getting to the point I can play.  I started painting the figures when I was invited to a club that was forming. It was going to play Brigade F&F with three figures to a base per the rules.  Alas, the club never got off the ground I was never told a reason.

I have two rule sets I really like and decided to base my figures so I could do both without needing to change anything and to keep in concept with both for basing.  I will be playing Brigade F&F and Alter of Freedom.

SO for the basing I went to 20mm x 20mm square basing for everything except for Exceptional Brigade, Division, Corps and Army commanders which will be on round bases

Brigade Fire and Fury calls for 3/4" x 1/2" basing for 6mm so I went with the 20x20.  The reason for the 20mm deep base is I double line the bases with infantry (doubling the number of troops), but keep the correct frontage.  To me it just looks better.

I have currently just finished painting the last of the figures I have. (Will need to order more once I finish the bases)  I currently have 50+ bases per side.  I am working towards the OOB for 1st Bull Run and have Tyler's Division based and Started on Hunter's Division.  For the Confederates I have the entire Army of the Shenandoah complete and am working on Bonham's Brigade of The Army of the Potomac.

The way I am setting up my Brigades is with physically visable Regiments. (example:  For Sherman's Brigade it has 15 stands broken down as a Brigade commander (on horse he does not count towards stand count) and 4 regiments of a Flag stand and 3-4 infantry stands).  Once I finish with the bases of a Brigade I will post a picture.

As far as Alter of Freedom, I can use 3 of my stands on a movement tray to represent a brigade for this set of rules.  The tray will contain 18 figures instead of the 24 most people use but will still give a good representation.

One final note I cut the Baccus strips into individual figures and base them so that I have a staggered line effect.

Some pics would be nice please!

The reason the original post didn't contain pictures was that I was trying to completely finish some units prior to posting pictures. I completed Schenck's Brigade of Tyler's Division today, unfortunately I have no idea on how to upload pictures.  

Not easy I guess but there are Posts in the archives of this Forum that explain how to. 

A pic is worth a thousand words.

I would also be very interested to see this basing setup. Sounds versatile!

Here are photo's of the Brigade I have done and the Union DIvision I am currently working.  I have the entire Army of Shenandoah (4 Brigades for 1st Bull Run) based but not completed as well.

Hope you can see the photos. 

Schenck's Brigade, Tylers Division 2 | Jim Johnson | Flickr

Tyler's Division | Jim Johnson | Flickr

Tyler's Division 2 | Jim Johnson | Flickr

I've completed Keyes Brigade of Tyler's Division and posting how I use the same stands for Alter of Freedom. WIth 3-5 Regimental command stands I can easily pull 3-4 Brigades for Alter of Freedom from 1 Brigade for Brigade Fire and Fury.

Keyes Brigade Tyler's Division | Jim Johnson | Flickr

An Alter of Freedom Brigade | Jim Johnson | Flickr

Many thanks for sharing the pics!

Looking good! I just finished up an ACW project myself. Basing on 60x60mm bases for the infantry and cavalry regiments because 1) I like the "diorama" aspect of basing, and 2) I was only making them for Alter of Freedom. Have about 30 infantry bases and 12 cavalry bases per side (and a boatload of cannon). 

AoF is a fantastic rule set BTW. So many great ideas in there. 

Thank you for the pictures - looks very nice! Have you taken them to the table yet, and how did it go?