A while back I posted my artillery, three guns.
I have just added another gun, and rebased them all. Previously I had the guns and crew all on individual bases, but I decided to go the route of putting them together on 65x90mm bases. It gives me the chance to include little bits of artillery equipment, and does look better in general.
The reason I had them individually bases before was for my rules, where the crew could be picked off, crew loss effecting the guns performance, etc. But after a test game I decided it was unnecessarily complicated, so now the gun and crew is treated as one model, and when it comes into contact with the enemy we just assume the crew are driven off / killed rather than having to resolve a combat. I made the rules for firing the guns simpler too.... Nothing like a good test game to make you think "oh well that was was silly / needs simplifiyng."
So here we have four guns in total, should be more than enough! I doubt I'll be using all four in many games.
Two of the guns are from the Perry sets. The other two are from Foundry, also sculpted by the Perry bros way back in the 80s! They all scale well together - the old sculpts are bulkier and less detailed, easier to assemble and paint. The new sculpts are much more detailed and fiddly. The red one is bigger than the other three.
There are 16 crew in total.
- 8 from the original artillery sets.
- 1 clone from above with a headswap.
- 2 from the bombard set.
- 3 from the labourers and wagons sets, with head swaps.
- 1 from Crusader miniatures, with a Perry head swap.
- 1 plastic conversion.
The pieces of equipment are from Front Rank and Tricorne.
I'm really pleased with the posing of the crew on each base, I feel they all tell a little story. I made sure to mix them up so none of the crew combos are 'straight from the box' as it were...
This chap's getting a stern ticking off from the master gunner.
"Hurry up and load that gun!!!!"
Some nice faces....
And I've also got an organ gun! It's from Old Glory. I made a couple of alterations, as I feel it looked a bit too 'fantasy' in its original incarnation... I snipped off the dragon / gargoyle decorations at the front, and replaced the solid wheels with spoked ones. I put it on a smaller base with just two crew, and didn't use any equipment - I imagine it's a more mobile gun which the two of them can wheel about by hand. One crew is from the Perry bombard set, the other is a plastic conversion.
I'd like to get another organ gun someday, but find not many companies make them. The one from Redoubt looks good, but annoyingly there is nothing else from them I want so would have to order it by itself, meaning postage would be likely as much as the gun....