Fluter, flutter go the butterfly wings as another couple of diverse items roll off the production line.
Item number one is the second limber for the British in Egypt.
Item number two is a by-product of item number one in that they are are the gun crew from the Victrix British artillery sets. Now I have six sprues each with one gun, one limber and five crew and from these I will make my six British in Egypt limbers and have six guns for other British Napoleonic projects. But I only use four crew with my gun sets and this would mean that I would have six crew left over. Luckily I have a need for gunners for another little project.
Readers may remember that for the War of 1812 blockhouse that I made back in May (https://stracmark.blogspot.com/2018/05/war-of-1812-blockhouse.html) I had cobbled together a gun from various bits that needed some crew. Well these are the crew.
Four of them will crew the gun. The officer and the sixth leftover, which will also be made up as an officer, will serve as artillery officers in the different British projects because I always find that artillery command is neglected in our wargames - hopefully this rectifies that.
They look great "at post" in the ad hoc fortification Mark! I recall you asking me about the base size of my Napoleonic guns - was that for this piece or deployment elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteYes this was where the gunners were needed. I hope you noticed that four of the sailors have striped trousers this time.
DeleteAlways a pleasure to look at such a fantastic job...superb!
ReplyDeleteThank you Phil.
DeleteAnother lovely limber! It's always nice when you can find a use for spare figures and you've done a great job with these, adding to your scrap heap cannon!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you Iain. Only four limbers to go. I now have a whole bunch if new "bits" for guns now as each set has three spare barrels and something I can build into mounts.
DeleteYour Perry “draft animals” are superb, Mark! Great sense of motion and strain. The P. Brothers really did a fantastic job on modeling these figures. Your painting brought them to life. Love seeing your blockhouse again.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jonathan. They are a lovely set to work with...eight sets to go.
DeleteYour collection grows by leaps and bounds! It will be interesting what the extra guns and barrels become.
ReplyDeleteI think the additional gun barrels, along with a number of French barrels, will end up on fortress mountings for some future project.
DeleteLooking good Mark...
ReplyDeleteStriped trousers... great fun .... until you have do the next pair...and the next...and....
All the best. Aly.
Thanks Aly. I have actually managed to paint a couple of striped shirts in the next group. But I must admit to a bit of depression when I look at the remaining seven sets of sailors still to be painted, at least 14 figures of which will probably have stripes of some sort required!
DeleteLots of striped trousers there, and very well done.
ReplyDeleteFunny that you mention command for artillery, as the home-grown rules we use allow greater flexibility in targeting where a commander is attached.
The next batch will have even more stripes.
DeleteI quite liked the idea that was in the old Fire and Fury where it was necessary to have an artillery officer attached for the batty to unlimber. That way you had to think carefully about positioning your guns.