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Title: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: Elbows on 22 September 2017, 03:31:54 PM

While I have them in my game, I've never used them...but I think it's time to get some models.  Who makes a crisp and nice cast for an Old West appropriate gatling gun, or a suitable Cavalry field gun? 

I run Knuckleduster and Black Scorpion, so something of a larger scale would be preferred.

Title: Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: matakishi on 22 September 2017, 06:17:57 PM

Britannia do both. Probably not the crispest though but nice and sturdy.

(http://www.matakishi.net/uploads/4/0/8/7/40876893/artillery-001_orig.jpg)

(http://www.matakishi.net/uploads/4/0/8/7/40876893/artillery-002_orig.jpg)

(http://www.matakishi.net/uploads/4/0/8/7/40876893/artillery-003_orig.jpg)

More photos here:
http://www.matakishi.net/plains-war-project.html

Title: Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: Elbows on 22 September 2017, 06:54:04 PM

Cool, I'll take a look.

Title: Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: Malamute on 22 September 2017, 08:41:50 PM

Yep, the Britannia Gatling gun is a nice piece.

Artizan do one as well:

http://www.artizandesigns.com/prod.php?prod=1049

Title: Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: rebelyell2006 on 23 September 2017, 05:00:23 AM

The Britannia field pieces are not particularly crisp, judging by those photographs.  I don't know what they are supposed to represent, the blue is a weird color (as carriages were painted a dark olive color), and I am not sure why the gunner/sergeant is holding a stick.  Cavalry pieces would have been the M1841 mountain howitzer (short bronze muzzle-loading tube, with sub-caliber breech), on either a pack carriage or a prairie carriage.  There would have been some 3-Inch Ordnance Rifles in wrought iron black tubes, but the muzzles did not flare out and there were no raised bits on the barrel around the trunnion; those were mostly held at forts and fortifications, as the weight and size made cross-country travel in the West very difficult.  In the early 1860s, there were assorted scraps and unwanted pieces like 6-pound field guns rotting in the depots and in the hands of volunteer units.  There were also Hotchkiss 1.65-Inch mountain rifles appearing in the late 1870s, but those also did not have a flared muzzle, and a very simple and straight barrel.

Title: Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: HerbyF on 25 September 2017, 03:31:15 AM

Gringo40s does a really nice gatling gun in his Mexican Revolution range.  (http://www.gringo40s.com/uploads/6/4/6/9/6469416/s402127532403641370_p67_i1_w320.jpeg)

Title: Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
Post by: Leigh Metford on 26 September 2017, 12:54:20 AM

... which inexplicably lacks both a number two gunner and a magazine.