Bavarian Gun Sets.

With the Bavarian cavalry for the Franco-Prussian War in the queue, I have a need for some artillery to support them.

These two batteries are horse artillery. One will be for support of the cavalry and one will form part of the corps reserve. Two more line batteries for the corps artillery will follow. To make them horse gunners I have simply added sabres. Horse gunners would not usually have the greatcoat rolled over the shoulder, that would be rolled on the back of the saddle, but removing those greatcoats was impossible, so they stay.

Once again these are Bavaria Miniatures figures. Sadly the guns that come with the sets are not up to the standard of the figures. Two guns are available: one is a short, stumpy, short in the trail sort of thing that if it was two-thirds the size might have passed for a mountain gun and the second is monstrous and if printed at a reduced scale might pass for a Krupp gun. Thankfully there were a number of unused Foundry Krupp guns lurking in the big box of bits that could be called into service...the wheels were a little on the small size, but thankfully again I was able to find eight wheels in the big box of bits from another project that had a diameter 3mm larger that went a long way to correcting visual difference.

Next in the queue are some particularly nice Bavarian cuirassiers.