British Mountain Gun query

[guitarheroandy]

I have the Perry British Mountain Gun and crew on the painting table at the moment (part of my steadily growing NW Frontier force) and I was wondering what colour I should paint the gun? Should the main body and wheels be a greyish colour? What about the gun barrel?

Any advice will be most gratefully received...

[italwars]

I suppose blue-grey...
also..i suggest you to adopt the "coward aproach" that i successfully experimented..that is a google search on toys soldiers catalogues..you can be sure that those manufactures had already done an accurate research for you

[italwars]

sorry...barrel gun metal very dark..as seen in some museums

[Hobbit]

Try:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RML_2.5_inch_Mountain_Gun

Not 100% sure that it is accurate but at least you can point to the photo that you based it on 

When I first painted some about 15 years ago I was told they were grey-green...I've never got around to putting them right 

[Cubs]

I would say dull bronze, certainly for Victorian era gaming.

For later stuff, Edwardian and onwards, perhaps you could go for a painted barrel? But that's really just a guess.

[Arthur]

The bronze colour in the Wikipedia pic appears to have been caused by aging as the barrel was made of steel.   

http://oldbritishguns.com/the-screw-gun
http://www.limbergunners.ca/html/body_history_of_the_screw_gun.html

[Cubs]

Oh, well, there you go.

[guitarheroandy]

Many thanks to you all for the advice and the helpful links.

Steel it'll be for the barrel and wheel bands then (GW Boltgun metal I guess, as that's the darkest 'steel' colour I have in the paints collection!  ) and a grey colour for the rest of the body...