Ottoman Empire

[Knight of St John]

You keep getting better and better. What will you be working on next for the Ottoman’s ?

[Khmorg]

You keep getting better and better. What will you be working on next for the Ottoman’s ?

I made janissaries in metal.

Next are seimens - dragoons of the Ottoman Empire
Artillery

and generals

[Calvin59]

They are superb, are they 15 to 28 mm? 

[Khmorg]

They are superb, are they 15 to 28 mm? 

Yes, 28mm

[Count Belisarius]

They are indeed rather splendid!

[commissarmoody]

Would Those Jannissares work for 1453? I am guessing no.

[Khmorg]

[Khmorg]

Would Those Jannissares work for 1453? I am guessing no.

Sorry for the delay in my responses. I have a weak internet connection.

Janissaries with cold arms would be quite suitable for 1453. There may be some subtleties of the uniform, but I don't know them

[Khmorg]

[Khmorg]

I have a request.

Please share information on the artillery of Ottoman Turkey in the 17th century.
I am very interested in the sizes and images of artillery guns of the 17th century

[sultanbev]

I have a request.

Please share information on the artillery of Ottoman Turkey in the 17th century.
I am very interested in the sizes and images of artillery guns of the 17th century

Rhoads Murphey in his book Ottoman Warfare 1500-1700, pp109-110 states that the most common Ottoman field artillery piece was the Zarbzen, which was basically a 1pdr pack gun, weighing only 125lbs. This is often overlooked by wargames manufacturers. Some of these would be the camel guns, Zembuks.

For sieges the 30-60pdr culverins were standard in 1550s, but by 1650s they had got bigger in the region of 45-85pdr Culverins. Fortress artillery tended to have 30pdrs as the most common gun.

[Khmorg]

Thank you very much.

Please tell me if the field guns of the Ottoman Empire were on carriages of different sizes. Or (the Turks had a standardized caliber) all carriages were the same and the difference was only in the length of the artillery pieces

For now I will do it according to these images

But is it worth making another small caliber and a smaller carriage???

[sultanbev]

A lot of the heavier guns were hand made specific for individual campaigns - it was easier than dragging them across the entire empire. Like most nations at the time they were not put in batteries of the same calibre or shot weight until later in the 1700s, so having every model gun looking different would not be out of place. But, that's not what you want to hear

Here is a 1730s gun OOB for the Ottoman fort of Izvornik in Bosnia, a Vauban style fort with 9 towers which had:
16x large brass guns, 4 horse-drawn field guns, 2 small mortars, 2 cannon
the walls had: 4 large mortars, 12 medium mortars, 200 small mortars, 50 hand mortars, 1800 bronze Tower Guns, 660 tower muskets, 113 smaller guns
taken from Michael Robert Hickok - Ottoman Military Administration in Eighteenth-Century Bosnia.
Unfortunately it doesn't define large, medium and small. I'm guessing the Tower Guns are like the 1pdr Zarbzens. Although from a little later than the period you are covering, I think it is possible to get an idea of the variety and ratio of gun types.

I do have a print of assorted hand artillery, one looks like a Sa-7 launcher and another like a 40mm M79 grenade launcher, but I can't get it to upload.

Back to your field guns, it is not clear how standardised Ottoman artillery was at this period. If it were me, I would make two guns, one very large like the prints you've shown, and one very small, on the scale of an amusette.

[Khmorg]

Thanks

[Numpty]

Are these wonderful figures available commercially please?