Tuesday, 24 December 2019

Bavarian Artillery Complete

I didn’t have a lot of artillery to paint for the Bavarian collection, just three gun sets and their associated limbers. One set and its limber was presented here some weeks ago, and here is the rest of  the artillery.


First up is a 12lb field gun.




Instead of a limber for this set I chose to do a caisson.



The second set is a 6lb light artillery set...



...and instead of a limber there is the superb wurst wagon model.





To round out this post are three mounted officers that will be be the brigadiers for the army.


This collection is nearly complete, only six chevauxleger troopers to go.
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  1. Jonathan Freitag24 December 2019 at 19:27

    These look great, Mark! The poses are really believable. Love the wurst wagon!

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    1. Mark Strachan24 December 2019 at 22:03

      Thank you Jonathan. The Perry artillery sets are exquisite and really capture the drama of working a gun in action. I thought long and hard (at least five minutes) before ordering the wurst wagon and the caisson models. My first plan was just do the limbers, but since limbers are only used to indicate moving artillery in our games it seemed quite reasonable to substitute the other models.

      With the clock ticking away the minutes to Christmas on this side of the dateline, Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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  2. Lawrence H25 December 2019 at 00:53

    Lovely work, and also the chevauxlegers below. The wurst wagon is terrific. Have a great Christmas Mark.

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    1. Mark Strachan25 December 2019 at 11:53

      Thanks Lawrence the second (and last) regiment of chevauxlegers is under way now. All the best t9 you and yours too mate!

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  3. pancerni25 December 2019 at 02:55

    Great stuff! Really nice figures, and well painted.

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  4. Aly Morrison25 December 2019 at 06:53

    Lovely toys Mark...

    You do know.... nothing is ever finished.

    Have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year.

    All the best. Aly

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    1. Mark Strachan25 December 2019 at 11:47

      Thanks Aly. You are right “finished” is a fairly loose term. Merry Christmas to you too!

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  5. rross25 December 2019 at 10:23

    Really nice work on these Mark . I have always liked the Bavarian cornflower blue uniforms. Not sure I would have liked to be an artillery man moving at speed across rough terrain though.....I wonder how many of them went on to father children after the war?!

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    1. Mark Strachan25 December 2019 at 11:45

      The same thought occurred to me, but then again given the mortality rate in the Napoleonic wars, future fatherhood may have been their least concern! Then again given that there are 13 million Bavarians today would indicate that the effect was not that severe, maybe it was the leather pants...although I am sure there must be a high number of Bavarian male sopranos.

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