Saturday 28 July 2018

French Horse Artillery

After the delight of painting the  first French horse artillery team I felt compelled to do a second one. Whereas the first set was "running up", this one is "laying the piece".


All four figures are beautifully posed from the gunner sighting the piece, to the gunner straining to swing the trail around to his instructions, to the gunner bringing the charge to the gunner ready to ram the round.

 




The six horse limber of this unit is painted but not assembled and based yet.

13 comments:

  1. These look great Mark. I am a fan of Horse Artillery having been put off them so long by that WRG 1685-1845 rules set and points system we used where it was a choice between fielding up to a dozen line battalions or a horse artillery battery. No wonder we never saw any on the table!

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    1. I have several horse batteries to do for the French 1812-13 army in a few months time. I recall that i had a full Russian horse battery of six guns and that had a points value of 552 under WRG, whereas an infantry battalion was 56 points if trained or 43 if raw. You are right to say that they rarely made it to the table.

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  2. These are really nice looking figures Mark - I particularly like the turban style red wrap around the shako!

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    1. There is a real temptation to do more of these, but that just would be silly.

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  3. Excellent looking piece Mark!

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    1. Thanks Mark. I think the Perrys make some of the best artillery sets around - full of character and action.

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    2. Yes very much agree, they have really thought about creating an interesting range of scenarios with their artillery.

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  4. Lovely looking horse artillery unit,lo lovely sculpts and painting!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you Iain. These were a real pleasure to work with.

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  5. Great job on a very dynamic set.

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    1. Thanks. I think dynamic is a excellent descriptor for the Perry artillery sets.

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  6. Yup!
    What everyone else said... French artillery of this period always looks good...and Alan has done a superb job with these...

    All the best. Aly

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    1. They are so nice that I almost rethought expanding my artillery organization from single to multiple model batteries...but the thought was only fleeting.

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