Mexican artillery and Dynamite boys....

[rebelzippy]

I managed to have some time to assemble and paint more artillery and support pieces for my growing Mexican Revolution armies.



https://www.novorasa.com/single-post/mexican-boom-booms

[Tom Dulski]

cool stuff

[CapnJim]

Just got to look at your blog.  That stuff looks good.

[sukhe_bator]

Nice! I have some 15mm Freikorps ones to paint up. Apparently the near smokeless firing (more like a recoilless rifle than a field gun) made it a good option for ambushes albeit with a more restricted range...

[Patrice]

Superb, and inspiring. 

[Golgotha]

That is a very unusual looking artillery piece - any idea what it is?

[sukhe_bator]

A Sims-Dudley Dynamite gun. In the brief period between the end of the C19 and the advent of the QF field guns of WW1 this used a smokeless powder charge to compress air in the lower chamber which propelled the main charge in the upper. It fired finned cylindrical nitrocellulose based 5lb charges up to an effective range of 900yards. They were sometimes referred to as 'aerial torpedoes'. Unlike 'proper' shells, the ammunition could be MacGyvered using black powder, blasting dynamite and a bit of sheet metal working. That made it popular with the insurgents. The US army had 16. Roosevelt and the 'Rough Riders' used one but they were soon rendered obsolete by 'proper' artillery with hydraulic recoil, one piece ammo and all the bells and whistles.

[Golgotha]

Cheers Sukhe - your comment got me researching this fascinating and unusual weapon and there are also some fantastic pictures of them see for instance this one on a train - https://www.spanamwar.com/dynamite.htm

[Patrice]

    I never knew it had existed. ...And now I NEED one! 

[rebelzippy]