Hybrid Index Card and Paper Soldier Armies

As a second phase to the ACW project, I extended my idea of using index cards for units by enhancing them with reduced 18mm Peter's Paperboys soldiers - basically mounting the soldiers to the "handle" or fold of the index cards.

I was able to complete the armies for the Union and the Confederacy for use with the One-Hour Wargames ACW rules. But I did not complete them in time to have a go at a game with my dad while he visited for Thanksgiving. It was a rush job towards the end, and afterwards, since it was clear there would be no FtF game with the new units, it became tedious work to complete. So I took some shortcuts...

Proper-ish (Paper) Soldiering?

Looks descent despite my ham-fisted
 scissoring with common scissors. 

I decided to move forward with more appropriate ACW armies for my OHW games, while keeping my original "index card" armies for exploring the other period rules in the "One-Hour Wargames" book.

Having received some pointers from Norm ( http://battlefieldswarriors.blogspot.com ) and Alex ( http://ecw40mmproject.blogspot.com ) about some sources of paper soldiers, I did a little web research and found something interesting on Peter Dennis' "Peter's Paperboys" site (always feel a little odd typing that into the search box...). Peter has an "18mm ACW" product line and provides a free "have-a-go" sample of some Union Zouave's ( https://peterspaperboys.com/collections/18mm-american-civil-war/products/free-presenting-the-american-civil-war-in-18mm-scale-with-have-a-go-sample ). 

Why would I be interested in 18mm figures? Part of my plan is to get to using the WarLord EPIC ACW plastic miniatures for my ACW Project someday; and since that will be after I have built up some paper Union and Confederate armies (and maybe some scenery too), I would like to incorporate the plastics with the paper and not have it look crappy (maybe wishful thinking).