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Offline Elbows

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Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« on: September 22, 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.
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Offline matakishi

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Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2017, 06:17:57 PM »
Britannia do both. Probably not the crispest though but nice and sturdy.







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Offline Elbows

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Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2017, 06:54:04 PM »
Cool, I'll take a look.

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Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« Reply #3 on: September 22, 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
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Offline rebelyell2006

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Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« Reply #4 on: September 23, 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.
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Offline HerbyF

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Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2017, 03:31:15 AM »
Gringo40s does a really nice gatling gun in his Mexican Revolution range. 
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Offline Leigh Metford

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Re: Old West suitable gatling gun, and/or Cavalry artillery piece.
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2017, 12:54:20 AM »
... which inexplicably lacks both a number two gunner and a magazine.

 

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