Saturday, March 15, 2014

French Artillery

More Napoleonics painted. Here we have 2 artillery sets, both from Italeri. One of Imperial Guard Artillery and one of regular army horse Artillery.

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The kits are very good, one of my only complaints is the lack of one of the horsemen on the carriage. There are only 2 on the sprue, while the carriages usually travelled with one horseman on each left horse. 

Let's assume the poor bastard has just been shot and there is no one available to replace him.

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Another issue to mention is the shortage of models to man the cannons on the horse artillery kit: only 5 for 2 guns. The Imperial Guard Artillery is far plentier on that regard, with 4 models for each of their 4 guns.

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I just realised I forgot to paint the details on the guards' bearskins. Will get to it tonight.

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1 comment:

  1. I like them!

    What you have here is 4 stands of Imperial Guard (Old Guard) Artillerie a Pied wearing the "short" bearskins introduced ? circa 1810, and two stands of Artillery a Cheval of the Imperial Guard, plus a limber team with two Horse Artillery of the Guard crew raiding the limber (wearing colpacks), and 2 mounted Train drivers, presumably of the Guard as well.

    I like the way you've made the "mouths" of the cannon grimy from firing; I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that before!

    There are several details I could point out, but I'll leave that to you if you want to hear about them, in which case I thjink the discussion might be best held privately.

    Impressive productivity as well. Bravo!

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