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Offline Major Weenie

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British "Not A Screw Gun"
« on: January 23, 2022, 08:13:06 PM »
Not sure if this belongs here, or under W.W.1, but here goes.

I was cleaning up my workdesk and found a British-Imperial-Sikh gun crew with pack mules.
I think this was a Brigade set from years ago.
When purchased the set I thought it was a 19th century screw gun,
but now I think it's really the W.W.1 replacement/equivalent.

So I resumed work on it.
I've based it in a really nice sort of yellow-tan, and then realized this looks an awful lot like Afrika Korps Desert Yellow.
Well that can't be right. 

But what would the the correct color for this sort of a gun if deployed in;
Palestine, Iraqi, or the Caucasus ?

Thanks

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Re: British "Not A Screw Gun"
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2022, 12:20:49 AM »
I think you mean the 2.75” mountain gun, which was the replacement for the classic ‘screw gun’ and was itself a screw gun, as it had a barrel that could be broken down for transport. So it is a screw gun, just not the one eberybody knows as the screw gun.

Yellow sand might not be a bad choice, at least the museum in Hartlepool thinks so.

http://www.landships.info/landships/artillery_articles/2_75_Mountain_Gun.html

That said, most of the photos I have seem of the gun in varied settings, including the desert, show a darker colour, most likely khaki green. Blue-grey is unlikely as the gun came into service during the war.
Em dezembro de '81
Botou os ingleses na roda
3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

Offline Major Weenie

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Re: British "Not A Screw Gun"
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2022, 01:12:42 AM »
Wow !
1.) That's the Gun, and
2.) That looks an awful lot like my (miniature) gun crew in the photo, and
3.) The paint job in the color museum photo looks an AWFUL lot like the color I chose,
      which made me so suspicious.

It looks good, contrasting with the 'desert' terrain on the figure base,
And I now have enough 'research' to rationalize keeping the color.

Many Thanks !
MW

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Re: British "Not A Screw Gun"
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2022, 02:15:36 AM »
My pleasure. I have the same gun (Brigade Games) languishing somewhere.

 

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