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Title: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Paul @ Empress Miniatures on 18 May 2010, 11:29:34 AM

Hi guys and gals

Some extra firepower.
 ;)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/EMPRESS/9PDR_02.jpg)

(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y232/Eaglstone/EMPRESS/9PDR_01.jpg)
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: WillieB on 18 May 2010, 11:38:17 AM
Lovely models!
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Yankeepedlar01 on 18 May 2010, 11:50:17 AM
That's spooky! I just started painting the ones I bought at Salute this morning!
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: M Blakey on 18 May 2010, 12:18:48 PM
very very nice i to started painting these this morning as my paints arrived  :D

great work
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: jamesmanto on 18 May 2010, 02:18:29 PM
Nice models. Those make my artillery park obsolete. :^(
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Traveler Man on 18 May 2010, 02:35:52 PM
Oh yes! Very nice!  :-*
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: chicklewis on 18 May 2010, 02:57:53 PM
I like the sculpting very much, BUT the guns look WAY too big compared to the figures. 
 
The wheels should not, my eye says, measure up past the shoulders of the figures, but I could just be remembering wrong. 

Did you scale the guns at 1/48th, perhaps?  If so, very disappointing. 

Chick
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Keith on 18 May 2010, 03:45:49 PM
http://samilitaryhistory.org/vo021dhf.jpg

They are 1/56th and the figures are mainly crouching. Best comparison is to the fella on the left in upper picture
 
A good link:

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol021dh.html
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: M Blakey on 18 May 2010, 06:30:31 PM
Quote from: chicklewis on 18 May 2010, 02:57:53 PM
I like the sculpting very much, BUT the guns look WAY too big compared to the figures. 

Chick

in all fairness when the gun is right in front of you it looks spot on

 ;) mike
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Calimero on 18 May 2010, 06:39:01 PM

 :'( I really need a well paid job!  ;)

Nice figures... and gun.  :-*
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Captain Blood on 18 May 2010, 06:40:11 PM
Very nice.

But what's with this 'AZW' all of a sudden?
Is this the conflict formerly known as the Zulu War?

Sorry to be controversial, (no, really), but do we have to keep coining new names (and three letter abbreviations) for things from our past?

Who decided this, and why wasn't I consulted?  ;)
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Helen on 18 May 2010, 08:45:58 PM
Hi Ladies,

Thank you for the photos and the crews look splendid.

Will the crews be available separately to purchase?

Thank you,

Helen
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: M Blakey on 18 May 2010, 11:34:07 PM
also any plans for some limbers and general service wagon? ooo and british casualites :D  ;D my ideas could go on for a while lol

mike
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: joroas on 18 May 2010, 11:39:05 PM
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But what's with this 'AZW' all of a sudden?
Is this the conflict formerly known as the Zulu War?

....and that precludes all Welsh, Irish or Scottish participation......................  :-X
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: archangel1 on 19 May 2010, 06:16:29 AM
Quote from: chicklewis on 18 May 2010, 02:57:53 PM
I like the sculpting very much, BUT the guns look WAY too big compared to the figures. 
 
The wheels should not, my eye says, measure up past the shoulders of the figures, but I could just be remembering wrong. 

Did you scale the guns at 1/48th, perhaps?  If so, very disappointing. 

Chick

There's a fair bit of distortion showing in the photographs and I'm not too sure if the 'ground' is completely level.  The real wheels are roughly five feet in diameter and I've seen several photos where a gunner standing beside one could rest his chin on the rim without much trouble.  As Keith points out, most of the crew are slightly hunched over, although the gun captain and loader in the top photo appear to look fine.  Here's a scale drawing of a 9-pdr and limber for reference.

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyarmaments/fieldguns/arm9pounderrml.htm
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: chicklewis on 20 May 2010, 04:29:25 PM
Well, maybe my comments on 'too big' were due to the sponger/rammer figures being extremely short. 

Are those guys shorter than the others?  Seems so from my measurements of the screen. 

Thanks for the scale drawing of the 9pdr. 
Title: Re: Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery
Post by: Keith on 20 May 2010, 05:05:43 PM
Quote from: chicklewis on 20 May 2010, 04:29:25 PM


Are those guys shorter than the others?  Seems so from my measurements of the screen. 



Nope. Just bent over in both cases.