Empress Miniatures AZW 9pdr artillery

[Paul @ Empress Miniatures]

Hi guys and gals

Some extra firepower.
 

[WillieB]

Lovely models!

[Yankeepedlar01]

That's spooky! I just started painting the ones I bought at Salute this morning!

[M Blakey]

very very nice i to started painting these this morning as my paints arrived 

great work

[jamesmanto]

Nice models. Those make my artillery park obsolete. :^(

[Traveler Man]

Oh yes! Very nice! 

[chicklewis]

I like the sculpting very much, BUT the guns look WAY too big compared to the figures. 
 
The wheels should not, my eye says, measure up past the shoulders of the figures, but I could just be remembering wrong. 

Did you scale the guns at 1/48th, perhaps?  If so, very disappointing. 

Chick

[Keith]

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vo021dhf.jpg

They are 1/56th and the figures are mainly crouching. Best comparison is to the fella on the left in upper picture
 
A good link:

http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol021dh.html

[M Blakey]

I like the sculpting very much, BUT the guns look WAY too big compared to the figures. 

Chick

in all fairness when the gun is right in front of you it looks spot on

  mike

[Calimero]

  I really need a well paid job! 

Nice figures... and gun. 

[Captain Blood]

Very nice.

But what's with this 'AZW' all of a sudden?
Is this the conflict formerly known as the Zulu War?

Sorry to be controversial, (no, really), but do we have to keep coining new names (and three letter abbreviations) for things from our past?

Who decided this, and why wasn't I consulted?  

[Helen]

Hi Ladies,

Thank you for the photos and the crews look splendid.

Will the crews be available separately to purchase?

Thank you,

Helen

[M Blakey]

also any plans for some limbers and general service wagon? ooo and british casualites   my ideas could go on for a while

mike

[joroas]

But what's with this 'AZW' all of a sudden?
Is this the conflict formerly known as the Zulu War?

....and that precludes all Welsh, Irish or Scottish participation...................... 

[archangel1]

I like the sculpting very much, BUT the guns look WAY too big compared to the figures. 
 
The wheels should not, my eye says, measure up past the shoulders of the figures, but I could just be remembering wrong. 

Did you scale the guns at 1/48th, perhaps?  If so, very disappointing. 

Chick

There's a fair bit of distortion showing in the photographs and I'm not too sure if the 'ground' is completely level.  The real wheels are roughly five feet in diameter and I've seen several photos where a gunner standing beside one could rest his chin on the rim without much trouble.  As Keith points out, most of the crew are slightly hunched over, although the gun captain and loader in the top photo appear to look fine.  Here's a scale drawing of a 9-pdr and limber for reference.

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyarmaments/fieldguns/arm9pounderrml.htm