British "Not A Screw Gun"

[Major Weenie]

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

[carlos marighela]

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.

[Major Weenie]

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

[carlos marighela]

My pleasure. I have the same gun (Brigade Games) languishing somewhere.