Okay, well Wargames Soldiers & Strategy magazine has finally landed (at my house anyway), so I feel it's probably okay to now share some pics online.
This is the diorama of the Perry bombard I made for the front cover - the issue theme being all about Charles the Bold of Burgundy.
I'm pleased with the way the article has turned out, although it was quite a trial getting the cover image which Guy (WS&S editor) shot. Also, although I shot loads of useful pictures of various stages of the diorama build and the finished product, Guy must have been pushed for space because he hasn't used any of them! Ah well... All the more reason to post some additional pics here - enjoy
(You will have to buy the mag to read the whole article though. Well worth it I'd say though, since the whole magazine is a jolly good read
)
Here are a few shots of the completed thing...
Here are the crew...
Master gunner and gun captain (plastic fantastic)...
Clerk of ordnance and plastic scaredy-cat...
Arse-scratching labourers...
Mantlet rope-men...
Charles Temeraire... Slightly fanciful plastic creation... And figure number 22 built from my two boxes of Perry plastic mounted MAA...
The before and after weathering on the bombard itself - especially to torment all those people that like to imagine medieval iron cannon were beautifully shiny...
And finally, just in case any one thinks I would have been so foolish as to paint the colours on the mantlet the wrong way round (
), obviously it is designed to be seen from behind by your own troops when on the march to the battlefield, and is thus the correct way round. Ergo.