Showing posts with label ACW artillery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ACW artillery. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 February 2009

Artillery digression #1 -ACW project

The Musket Miniatures artillery pieces I ordered on the recommendation of a couple of blog readers are now finished and I am really pleased with how they work with the Hinton Hunt crews. These pieces, officially scaled at 22mm, are very delicate and remind me to some extent of the Hinchliffe 20mm Napoleonic guns, which, as you may remember, Peter Gilder seems to have used with his Napoleonic gun crews.
As the ACW figures I have are mainly, I think, pirates and recasts, the contrast with the delicate Musket Miniatures artillery pieces is greater but still, I think, works. They have a wide range of different artillery pieces, available in packs of four, single types or mixed. I got a pack of four smooth bores (2 Napoleons and 2 6 pounders, and a mixed pack of rifled artillery, including Armstrong, Blakely, Whitworth and Wiard guns.

Saturday, 13 December 2008

ACW project: artillery








The first figures I have painted up are the artillerymen - 19 Union and 18 Confederate (at least the way I've painted them). Given the quality of the castings and of my painting, they have turned out surprisingly well. I have block painted them, based on coins, and sealed with plastidip - a habit transferred from my method for plastics.
I have no artillery pices for these figures to man and am on the look out for good suggestions. t the moment I am thinking Jacklex, but would like the option of Parrots, Armstrongs etc. I don't know if the Newline pieces would match for sixe. I am also on the lookout for some guns which would be suitable for Minifigs S Range crews.

Friday, 8 August 2008

AL 1 ACW limber for Napoleon field gun


A 1 12 pounder Napoleon field gun


US 18 Union artillery driver


US 17 Union gunner riding on limber (left side)

No picture of this figure is available at present

US 16 Union gunner riding on limber (right side)


US 14 Union artillery sergeant, holding lanyard


US 13 Union gunner, with charge


US 12 Union gunner, ramming home


US 11 Union gunner, manning gun


Union Gun Team

The original catalogue description states:

In Union pattern flat-topped kepis & braided jackets & trousers

CS 14 Confederate artillery sergeant, holding lanyard







CS 13 Confederate gunner, with charge







CS 12 Confederate gunner, ramming home




CS 11 Confederate gunner, manning gun




Confederate Gun Team

The original catalogue descriptions states:

In Confederate pattern deep-crowned kepis, grey jackets and trousers